AFTER THE WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 2

AFTER THE WAR

DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE Rugby, May 13. The announcement that the boaro of Trade has appointed a representative committee oi! industrialists to prepare for the future development of British export trade has Jed to speculation in the Press as to the directions such developments may take. The Times says export trade can flourish only in a world where the standards of living of the potential customers are progressively rising, so promotion of prosperity in other countries is of direct British interest. There must be an end to the conception of international trade as a dog-fight in which a bone of fixed dimensions is scrambled for and hope of gain depends on excluding some hungry competitor. Planning for the future must be done in terms of commodities rather than countries. If Britain was to be true to the policy of non-discriminatory trade, which was proclaimed in lhe Atlantic Charter as the goal of the United Nations, the first question arising was what commo(***es could be placed on the world market which were of better quality or more efficiently produced than could be found elsewhere. The whole issue was bound up with future Anglo - American relations. The struggle for markets would be detrimental to hoi h. -8.0.W.