IMPORTATION OF FROZEN MEAT TO SPAIN.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume VI, Issue 4, 15 April 1913, Page 453

IMPORTATION OF FROZEN MEAT TO SPAIN.

In forwarding a copy of a despatch on the above subject from H.M. Ambassador at Madrid, the High Commissioner writes as follows: < ■

It will be noted that the Ministry of the Interior has not yet come to any decision on the question of permitting the importation of frozen meat, although, as is known, the subject has been under discussion for some good length of time. While on the point I might mention that frozen meat was included in the new Customs tariff of. Spain, which came into force on the Ist January, 1912, the item reading “ Fresh or frozen meat,’’ whereas in the 1906 tariff “ fresh meat ” only was provided for. The new duties, too, were made 12 pesetas (gold) per 100 kilos (= 4s. 10|d. per cwt., or rather more than |d.’ per lb.) as against the old tariff of 14 pesetas, so that there would seem to be some little ground for the belief expressed by the member of the Royal Council of Health that permission for the importation of frozen meat in some form will probably be given.