Australia to Recast Trade Relations

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 66, 10 December 1937, Page 5

Australia to Recast Trade Relations

-Press Assn.—

FUTURE POLICY Minister's Visit to N.Z. is Thought Important DOMINION PRESSURE

(By Telesrapb-

Opyrigbt.)

(Received .10, 11.15 a.m.)' *' SYDNEY, Dec. 10. The Sydney Morning Herald 's Can; berra correspondent says: " Australia'* trade relatioms will he completely it-. east within the next few months. Principles that have stood since th» Ottawa agreement was signed will bt substantially mo.d.ified, and some may, • evea be abandoned. Concession* that Australia enjoys may have to bt abandoned so that other# may b® olx tained, and coneessi,ons whieh grants may have to be .withdrawn and. others substituted. "The crux of tht problem ia ifrt roview of .the Ottawa agreement aa§ the completion of an agreement with the United States, but bargaining will extend to other parts of the Empire and to foreign countries. • """The announcements that the trade-. diversion policy will he abandoned and that Mr T. W. White, Minister of Customs, will l.eave for New Zealand. to-day are the prelude to an important peri.od of negotiation ahead, The im-: portance attached to Mr White mission is indicated by the fact that ho will be accompanied by Mr J. Fletcher, one of the senior officers of the Customs Department, and Mr E. McCarthy, of the Commerce Department. Mr Latham Withall, secretary of the Association Chambera of Manu.* facturers, also will go to New ZeaUnd to examine the trade position. 1 * The Daily .Telegraph's Melbonrne. correspondent says that Mr White4 before leaving for Sydney to catch the. Awatea, admitted that pressure fronf the Dominion Government had .dictated his hiurried .visit,