GERMAN TARIFF MOVE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1932, Page 6

GERMAN TARIFF MOVE

AFFECTING AUSTRALIA AND X.Z. (United Press' Association—By ElectricTelegraph . —Copyright.) (Received this day at 1.30 p.m./ ! ; ; LONDON, March 15. • The new German .tariff move is described by well informed people as getting in first in readiness for the Ottawa Conference. - It is believed that the probable upshot of the Australian negotiations will be a German undertaking to hold super duties in obeyance for six months, on an assurance of a trade agreement similar to Britain’s, shall be made within that period.

The Australian press h>arn s that New iZealand in February was able- to do a good trade in butter in Germany, thanks to being a most favoured nation. Germany. under the recent treaty agreed to admit five 'thousand tons of Finnish butter yearly at half the duty, namely, fifty marks per hundred kilos. New Zealand claimed equal treatment for a similar quantity with the result that her butter was admitted at a duty of fifty'--.marks plus a percenttage added previously, for depreciation in staling. Australia’s butter, on the contrary, is subject to a duty of HO marks plus sterling depreciation, the percentage 'making trade ' impossible. New Zealand’s favoured treatment was due to het' adopting the Anglo-German trade .treaty -of 1925.