TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 23 November 1912, Page 6

TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

-— 9 TARIFF REVISION. OF GREAT VALUE TO NEW .<• . ZEALAND, (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Chrisichurch, November 22. After several months' absence ■ in America, during -which ho represented the Canterbury Chamber of, Commerce at the fifth International Congress of Chambers of .Commerce, Mr. Albert Kaye returned to Christchurch : to-day. Interviewed regarding the possibilities of increased trade between the * United States and New Zealand, Mr. .Kays said, when in America, the question was in everyone's mouth. It was foreseen that if the Democrats' got into power there would bo a revision of tho tariff ,in the direction chiefly of letting in raw products to tho United States, if not free, at least on n lower scale of duties than those at present imposed. The majority of business men with .whom Mr. Itaye spoke on the subject considered that tariff revision on these lines would be a splendid thing for the United States. There were, of course, others who thought the other way, but as tariff revision was one of the main planks of Dr. Woodrow . Wilson's Presidential platform, it must bs assumed that the majority of the people were in favour of it. No doubt this revision of the United States tariff would be eventually of great value to New Zealand and other British possessions, and would affect New Zealand in the matter of wool and woollen products, pelts, butter, and frozen meat. The : comparatively early completion of the Panama Canal, it was/espected, would bring New Zealand into closer communication with Eastern by regular lines of steamers, and this, in conjunction with the revision of the United ■States tariff, was of; material, importance to New Zealand producers;--Already-, the business people of the United States were making their plans in view of the changes that the opening of tho canal would bring about. .. -