RUSSIAN GOODS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19641, 8 November 1933, Page 12

RUSSIAN GOODS

AGENT S REQUEST TO TARIFF COMMISSION. By Telegraph—Press Association .’ELLINGTON, This Day. Among a variety of requests made by diffeient parties to the Tariff Commission to-day, w 7 as a submission bv Mr L. J. Duflou, of Duflou. Ltd., Wellington, that the tariff schedule should be arranged so as to give Russian manufacturers an opportunity of exporting to New Zealand on a fair and competitive basis. A reduction of foreign duties was sought in a number of cases, and in others Mr Duflou asked that no alteration should be made. The application covered chemicals, tobacco, salmon and cilier tinned fish, including sturgeon, chinaware. and glassware, salt. rubber footwear, leather and preserved fruit such as cherries, greengages and straw’berries, carpets and electric light bulbs. In connection with china and glassware, Mr Duflou submitted that if it w r as really necessary to put a brake on Japanese imports. other measures should be devised without penalising other foreign countries. He did not say the Japanese goods should be stopped, but that goods of equal quality should be given equal chance of being sold irrespective of where they came from. The proposed imposition of a duty of 25 per cent, on foreign glucose was opposed by Messrs Levin and Co., agents for the Corn Products Refining Co., New York. Glucose is at present admitted free, except for primage duty.