BRITISH TRADE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 165, 7 April 1919, Page 8

BRITISH TRADE

EXPORT RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. Official reports received at the office of the British Trade Commissioner state that export restrictions in tho United Kingdom have been further relaxed. The. following goods may now leave the United Kingdom without license:— Fancy goods made of morocco and light leathers. Iron and steol manufactures generally, except high-speed steel and certain special articles. Machinery of all kinds except textile machinery and machinery wholly made or brass or copper. Toys, dolls, and games of all kinds. Binder twine, barrels and casks, boilers, chroino ore, chestnut extract, cork, fuel cconomisers for boilers, goldbeaters''skin, gluestock, dry white lead, hide clippings, resins, lead-coated sheets, paraflin vax, pigskins, cast-iron pipes, iron or steel wire, wire rope, quebracho extract, eastiron radiators, solid glucose, railway sleepers of iron or steel, railway springs, railway axles and tyres, and wheels, railway constructional material (except rails), silk manufactures, spirits (except whisky), torneplates, tinplatce. In regard to imports into, the United Kingdom, the Trade Commissioner is advised that prohibitions have been relaxed in the coses of the following articles-.— Bacon, lard, and hams. Hardwood (until July 1), Certain import relaxations have teen reveked. Licenses are required for the importation of the following goods:Brooms, brushes, buttons, gloves of leather and fabric, gas mantles, vegetable tape and cotton piece-goods. The reimposition of the restriction en the importation of these gooj]e into the United Kingdom is due to complaint that home industries are being prejudiced by foreign competition,