PLATE GLASS TARIFF.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1926, Page 4

PLATE GLASS TARIFF.

NEW YORK, July 0

The General Motors Corporation, which boasts a large and increasing export trade in motor-cars with Britain and the British Empire, is reported to he appealing to the Tariff Commission for the imposition of an emergencytariff against British and Belgian plate glass.

According to the “ Journal of Commerce,” Air McKenna, the attorney representing the General Motors Corporation, had a conference yesterday with Mr Thomas Marvin, chairman of the Commission, to whom he explained that the new system of manufacturing iphrtc glass known as the continuous process has enabled the British and Belgian industries to produce plate ; glass, bring it to the United States, pay the 'present duty and lay it down in American factories at 3d a square foot cheaper than American plants can make it.

The American plate glass industry which is largely owned or controlled bv the motor-car industry, is thus, Mi McKenna contends, threatened wit! destruction.

Mr Marvin informed the representative of the General Motors Corporation that the field' agents of the Commission are now ill Britain and Belgium studying the new process with the idea of getting accurate estimates of the cost of production. Any action of the Cdnimissiqn in fixing an emergency tariff will he based on the estimates of the field agents, but it cannot well be taken before three months.