JAPANESE TRADE AGGRESSION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19667, 8 December 1933, Page 9

JAPANESE TRADE AGGRESSION

GROWING ANXIETY IN ENGLAND. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 7, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. On the motion for the adjournment in the House of Commons, Mrs Ida Copeland (Conservative member for Stoke) drew attention to the menace to the pottery industry, due to Japanese competition. There was no doubt Japan was making a dumping ground of Australia and New Zealand. Dr E. Leslie Burgin (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) in his reply said that unfair competition in regard to trade marks and the imitation of styles would be severely dealt with. Colonel D. J. Colville (representing the Joint Secretariat of the Imperial Treasury and the Board of Trade) said he had received reports of competition from Japan, in various colonial markets, affecting a number of United Kingdom manufactures, other than cotton and textiles, including asbestos sheets, cement and cayon goods, cycles, cycle parts, galvanised iron, pottery, tiles, rubber footwear, soap and beer. He said the Government was keenly watching the competition and was actively considering the question.