Ending Britain's Commodity Controls
Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, March 23. The Presidept of the Board of Trade (Mr. Harold Wilsotf) said he hoped to abolish all commodity controls except a few essential ones by the end of the year. The only controls stitl needed were to ensure that Britain got adequate supplies of furniture, elothing, household linei: and raw materials now scaree all" over the-world,- or which Britain bought with searce currency. Mr. Wilson said price control would stay but with "healthy eompetition" prices should tend to fall. He told the Commons that the import of tanning materials, svnthetic rubber, resin, pine oil, turpentine, oak veneers and building boards would revert from public to private purehase soon. He hoped to make earlv progress in the deeontrol of wool yarn and wool cloth. He said materials for upwards of 100 industries i had been freed from quota control since | November.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 March 1949, Page 5
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