ARGENTINE ANXIOUS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 284, 26 July 1932, Page 5

ARGENTINE ANXIOUS

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AFR I CA'S CHALLENGE FEARS PROTECTION WILL UNDERMINE MEAT TRADE INTEREST VERY KEEN

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Rec. -July -25, '5.5. p.m. ■NEW YORK, Sunday The New York Times Buenos Aires correspondent states that the Argentine -is watching with real anxiety the effiorts of South Africa at the Imperial Eecmomic Gonf erence at Ottawa to obtain customs and '.other concessions to ehahle it to increase shipments to «Great Britain's markets. Any increase could only be at the expense of the Argentum. Competition from Australia was not eonsidered dangerous, owing to the -distanee fjjom -London, while the ■British consumer pref ers ohiiled beef . The inferior quality of -South African cattle makes the meat unfit for competition. Loeal :newspapers daily pub-lish long articles predicting ruin for Argentine business in the event of the conference -granting African preference, .thus enabling their beef to compete with Argentine meat, apd tliereby ■make it possihle fpr the African breeders to improve the quality of their -animals to compete with Argentine quality.