U.S. LIQUOR TRADE
IMPORTS QUOTAS NEARLY ENDED (United Press Association —Electric Telegraph—Gupyrignt.)
WASHINGTON, December 21
The Government Ims disclosed that the rush of foreign liquors into United States lia s brought the majority of the import quotas near to exhaustion, and the Government at the same time, has moved to combat domestically winuthe Attorney General, Mr Cummings, described a? “rather a wholesale plan to violate the internal revenue laws in liquor.”
He sgidi that 'the entire force of 1170 prohibition agents will be employed to prevent bootlegging, and other illegal liquor operators. He added thatillicit stillis were still uu ‘-operation, and that “depredations were going on.” The position regarding the foreign liquor quotas indicates that- the Portuguese and the French quotas are exhausted, and that an impasse lias been reached in negotiations with the French, who, having accepted increased quotas of American lruits and perk products at the same tim e increased the duties on these items. The Franco-American liquor deadlock has been broken, with France agreeing to increase by four times her quota for American apples and pears lor a double wine anj liquor quota.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1933, Page 5
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