WOOL AND MEAT EMBARGO

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 67, 13 December 1920, Page 5

WOOL AND MEAT EMBARGO

NOT LIKELY TO BE IMPOSED BY UNITED STATES CONGBESS. (Rec. December 12, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, December 10. The chairman of the House, fTuys and Means Committee informed tho representatives of wool-growers who asked for wool and meat embargo that Congress is unlikely to Sake any such action.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

rWoolgvowers and manufacturers appeared before Congressional committees and asked for an embargo upon the importation of wool and sheep until the tariff can be revised, so as to give American flock-owners adequate protection. A representative of the NaiAonal Woolgrowers' Association pointed out that woolgrowers were being ruined by Hip importation of wool and meats, and unless something was done immediately Wostern ilockownera would bo bankrupt. He added thatl 986,000,0001b. of wool, enough . for two years' supply, was now stored in the United States. He estimated that. 95 per cent, of tMe present year's American clip was -unsold. Other woollen merchants pointed out! that foreign wool and meat products were being dumped on American markets, owing tc> thea depreciated exchanges, which mnkt> the operation profitable. They suggested that the tariff should be revised, taking imio consideration the exchange.!