NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 427, 19 November 1930, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

EXPORTS TO CANADA. THE TARIFF CHARGES. OTTAWA, Nov. 17. While the Department of National Revenue has no immediate information with regard to the appraisal for duty purposes of Australian and New Zea land butter consignments arriving by the Aorangi last week, it is stated that the Canadian tariff requires the imposition of dumping duties where the export value of commodities shipped to Canada is lower than the domestic value in the county of origin. Since the operations of the Patterson scheme, under which Australia enjoys a bounty, tend to bring Australian butter within the scope of the dumping class, that dumping duty is equivalent to the difference between export and domestic prices in the country of origin, provided the difference docs not exceed 15 per cent, of the domestic price. New Zealand butter is now imported under the British preferential rate of eight cents per lb. The Department has no information that the export price in New Zealand is lower than the domestic price in New Zealand and consequently no occasion has arisen for the imposition of the dumping duty against New Zealand. Departmental officials are inclined to believe prima facie that New Zealand would have r •ertain advantage at present over Australian, in spite of the fact that the duty under the Australian trade treaty provisions, apart from the dumping duty, is only one cent, per lb. as against eight cents on New Zealand butter.

AUSTRALIA’S ADVANTAGE. CUSTOMS OFFICIAL SPEAKS. VANCOUVER, Nov. 17. “Australian butter has an advantage of at least four cents per lb. over New Zealand,’’ the Collector of Customs (Mr George Allen) said today. “New Zealand is admitted under British preference of eight cents per lb. Australian comes under the Australian treaty and it is taxed one cent, per lb., plus a dumping duty based on the domestic price in Australia, not to exceed 15 per cent. At present the dumping duty is three cents. The Australian, therefore, pays four cents against New Zealand’s eight,” Mr Allen said.