EMPIRE TRADE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 33, 2 May 1927, Page 2

EMPIRE TRADE

TARIFF BARRIERS BRITAIN COMPLAINS By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Friday. At the annual meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce a resolution was passed deploring the existing tariffs as barriers to trade within the Empire, and urging the Government to take every practicable step to remove them. A delegate from Nottingham said the manufacturers there were entirely in favour of developing trade relationships with every part of the Empire, but they could not do so if the Dominions placed such restrictive tariffs on British products, particularly on hosiery, as effectively to exclude them from the market. A delegate from Leicester said that if the new Australian tariffs were imposed thousands of Leicester workers would be rendered idle. The Agent-General for South Australia, Air. J. L. Price, said all the faults were not with the Dominions. A great deal of education as to what the Empire meant was needed in Britain. He said he did not think Britain had any complaints to make about Australia and New Zealand. The greatest offenders as regards tariffs in Australia w-ere the people from Britain, who had come out there and had immediately wanted a tariff to protect their industries. Mr. Price concluded: “You need to put your own house in order.”—A. and N.Z.-Sun.