AUSTRALIA & AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 230, 23 June 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIA & AMERICA

——— *—. — ■ GREAT GROWTH OF TRADE FUTURE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS (By Telegraph-Press Association-OopyrieM New York, June Iβ. The Australian Press Association interviewed Mr. H. V. Braddon (Commissioner for Australia in the United State of America), who said that the Ameri-can-Australian trade, which had grown to largo figures during the war on this side, was partly duo to war conditions, and was rapidly-increasing American interest in the export trade, and Australia's desire to have Germany's place in the Commonwealth markets taken by traders of the Allied countries. There was no reason why a great deal of the special trade' between America and Australia which had arisen out of the war should not become permanent. The'precise measure in .which tho Panama Canal would facilitato trade between. the two countries was not yet determined, but it bore promise of better commercial relations in the future. He hoped if the duties on wool imported to America were veimposed they would bo on a reasonable ad valorem scale, rather than the old specific duties, which hanipered American purchases- of Australian wool. He locked forward to a healthy two-sided trade between the two countries.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.