UNSTABLE INDUSTRIES
■THE CLASSIFICATION TEST By Telegraph—l're3s Association—Copyright (Hoc. August 24, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 22. Mr. Lloyd George's summary of tho Government policy dealing with unstable key industries, defines them as fulfilling the following tests, namely: 1. A product essential for war or tho lriMiitenonce of tho country during war. 2. An industry so neglected before the war that, there was an inadequate supply of the product. . 3 An industry about' which the Government found it necessary to take special steps during the war. i. An industry which, if special Government support wero withdrawn, could not maintain itself at the level of production essential to national life. It was proposed that the fees charged for the issue of licenses to import goods produced by such unstable industries ijhould bo fixed, with regard to each ease, to tho. difference between tho price at which- the article could be imported and tho price at which a similar articlo could bo sold in tho United Kingdom. Ho stated that it might lie necessary for some years for the Government.. to continuo to assist sjich industries.—Renter.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 5
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183UNSTABLE INDUSTRIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 282, 25 August 1919, Page 5
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