NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 438, 2 December 1930, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER

IMPORTS INTO CANADA. POSiTIOxN UNDER CONSIDERATION. [Per Pi ess Association.! WELLINGTON, Dec. 1. In the course of an interview today, Sir Apirana Ngata, at present acting for the Prime Minister in the absence of the Hun. E. A. Ransom, made reference to the Canadian butter market so far as New Zealand butter exports are concerned. “It has recently beeu represented to the Government,” said Sir Apirana, “that butter imported into Canada from New Zealand is unfavourably placed on account of the duty at present imposed as compared with that imported from the Commonwealth of Australia. It is understood that the present position is that the New Zealand product is liable to a duty at the rate of 8 (cents a pound, but that owing to the term? of sale, no dumping duty is collected, whereas under the Australian trade agreement with Canada the duty on Australian butter is 1 cent per pound, but owing to the bounty granted on butter exported from the Commonwealth the dumping duty is also imposed. “The Government has been in communication with Mr Forbes respecting the unfavourable position of New Zealand butter, and he has advised that suitable representations have been made to the Canadian Government, and that the whole matter is under consideration. ”