BRITISH TARIFF

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1931, Page 6

BRITISH TARIFF

ADDITIONAL HIGH DUTIES. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 29. The first Order under the Horticultural Products Emergency Customs Act, which comes into operation on January sth, imposes duties on various fresh soft fruits when such British are available. The duties include ones of half a. crown per pound for early, and of sixpence per pound for late strawberries; three pence per lb for cherries; one halfpenny per lb for gooseberries; fourteen shillings per hundredweight for plums. There are also duties on fresh vegetables, salads, cucumbers, peas, and new potatoes, inemding a duty on asparagus of from fourpence to one shilling per lb ; on mushrooms of eiglitpence per lb. There are imposts on cut. flowers, including a duty on mimosa of twopence per lb to operate practically throughout the year, the more expensive varieties paying ninepence per lb. Rose 'trees are to pay 30s per hundred. WOOL INDUSTRY. TARIFF BARRIERS. BRUSSELS, December 30. Representatives of the British, ■French and Belgian woollen industries met at Lille, and they agreed t" “Turiff Disarmament,” according to -VI. Andre Peltzer, the. President of the i Belgian Textile Federation ,vvlio is reported as having said that an agreement was reached on a basis of reciprocity of fiscal legislation, thus meaning that 'tariffs shall be equal for all, and as low as possible.

M. Peltzer added that the British delegates were convinced that the country men would enthusiastically accept the arrangement. Opinion in Germany and elsewhere had also been sounded, he said; and the majority of the countries are favourable. "We flow have to convince the Governments,” he remarked. RAIL CARS ORDERED IX BRITAIN. LONDON, December 29. The Roumanian State Railway have placed a considerable order for rail cars with the British Sentinel Camimell Company. This is the sequel to a visit to Britain and other countries by General Jonescu, the DirectoriGeneral of the Railways, and other Roumanian officials, who carefully inspected the different types of railcars in service.