DOMINION TARIFFS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19830, 3 May 1927, Page 7

DOMINION TARIFFS

DO THEY RESTRICT TRADE ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS COMPLAIN (A. and N.Z.) LONDON, April 30. At the annual meeting of the Association of the British Chambers of Commerce, resolutions were passed deploring the existing tariffs ns barriers to trade within the Empire, and urging the Government to take every practicable step to remove them. The delegate from Nottingham said that while manufacturers there entirely flavoured developing trade relationships with every part of the Empire, they could net do so if the Dominions placed such restrictive tariffs on Briiish products, particularly hosiery, as effectively to exclude them from the market. The delegate from Leicester said that if tho new Australian tariffs were imposed thousands of Leicester workers would be rendered idle.

The Agent-General for South Aus tralia (Mr. J. L. Price), said that "all the faults were not with the Dominions. A great deal of education as to what the Empire meant was needed in Britain. He did not think Britain had any complaints to make about Australia and New Zealand. The greatest offenders as regards tariffs in Australia were people from Britain, who went out and immediately wanted a tariff to protect their industries. He concluded: “You want to put your own house in order.”