Discrimination

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 221, 7 December 1927, Page 1

Discrimination

U.S. SHIPPING BOARD’S COMPLAINT

AUSTRALIA AND CANADA By Cable. — Prat* Attocia:i<m. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON. Tues. Discrimination against American railroads ports, and shipping by tHo Australian and Canadian Governments, is charged against them by the United States Shipping Board in its annual report to Congress. By a restriction of the British preferential rate to goods imported through a sea or river port oir''Canada. they apparently have been ‘ successful in their purpose, the report states, of diverting traffic from United States ports to Canadian ports, and from American vessels to ones of British registry, revealing that 60 per cent, of the total movement through Vancouver consists either of imports consigned to the United States or exports moving from the United States to foreign ports. By enforcing the Australian regulation requiring the cost of railway transportation from the point of origin of the shipment to the port of export to be added to the value of the goods imported in determining the amount subject to Australian import duty, traffic is diverted through Vancouver. The State Department unsuccessfully attempted to arrange a settlement with Australia, but the latter refused to drop the offending regulation. It’s intention, however, is to press the matter to the end that “this discrimination may be stopped.”