DISCRIMINATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 7 December 1927, Page 5

DISCRIMINATION

AGAINST AMERICAN PORTS BY AUSTRALIAN & CANADIAN GOVERNMENTS. U.S. SHIPPING BOARD’S ALLEGATIONS. [By Cable — Press Assn. — Copyright.) (Received 7, 8.30 a.m.) Washington, Dec. 6. Discrimination against American American railroads, ports, and shipping by the Australian and Canadian Governments was alleged by the United States Shipping Board in the annual report to Congress, by the restriction of the British preferential rate to goods imported through sea or river ports of Canada. It was apparently successful in its purpose, the report states, of diverting traffic from United States ports to Canadian and from American vessels to British, the registry revealing that 60 per cent, of the total goods through Vancouver consists either of imports consigned to the United States or of exports moving from the United States to foreign ports. Bv enforcing the Australian regulation requiring the cost of railroad transportation from the point of origin of shipment to the port of export to be added to the value of goods imported in determining the amount subject to Australian import duty, the traffic is diverted through Vancouver. •

The State Department unsuccessfully attempted to arange a settlement wirth Australia but the latter refused to drop the offending regulation. The State Department’s intention, however, is to press the matter tP the end that “this discrimination may he stopped.”—(A.P.A and “Sun” cable).