AMERICAN SHIPPING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19178, 8 December 1927, Page 13

AMERICAN SHIPPING.

DOMINIONS CHARGED WITH DISCRIMINATION.

(ST CABLE—PMSS ASSOCIATIOH—COPTBIOHT.I UVSTB4LIAK AND H.Z AKB SUM CABLE.)

WASHINGTON, December 6.

Discrimination against American railroads, ports, and shipping, by the Australian and Canadian Governments, was alleged by the United States Shipping Board in its annual report to Congress. It was stated that the British preferential rate was restricted to goods imported through a sea or river port of Canada. "It has apparently been successful in its purpose," the report states, '■which is to divert traffic from United States ports to Canadian, and from American vessels to ships of British registry." The report reveals that 60 per cent, of the total movement through Vancouver consists either of imports consigned to the United States, or of exports moving from the United States to foreign ports. By enforcing the Australian regulation requiring the cost of railway transportation, from the point of origin of the shipment to the port of export, to be added to the value of the goods imported in determining the amount subject to the Australian import duty, traffic is diverted through Vancouver The State Department unsuccessfully attempted to arrange a settle? raent with Australia, but the latter refused to drop the offending regulation. The State Department's intention, however, is to press the matter, to the end that "this discrimination may be stopped."