AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1931, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

CANADA’S TRADE POLICY. (United Press Association—By jfllectrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) MONTREAL, August 81. ' “Canada’s progressive active policy of Empire trade and farming, the agreement with Australia, West Indies and South Africa, even though she may have to wait for a tariff agreement with Britain,-- “is VGiy sound,” said Sir Alexander Gibb, British engineer, who was commissioned by the Canadian Government to report on Canada’s harbours, in an interview. “The trouble is not with you here in Canada,” he said. “It is, with us in Britain. I mean we have got to have a tariff, and it is coming. After this National Government, there will be an election, and a Conservative Government will come in, and " e shall have a tariff. Then we can talk about Empire trade.”

BRAZIL FLOUR EMBARGO. WASHINGTON, August 31. Carlton Jackson, commercial attacne at Rio Janiero, to-day cabled the Commerce Department, that Brazil had barred imports of flour for the next 18 months. The cablegram stated that action had been taken to protect the millers, who are to purchase from the Brazilian Government 25,000,000 bushels of wheat, for which 1,050,000 bags of coffee were traded to the United States Farm Board.