HIGHER PRICES
Iron and Steel Goods From Overseas. Press Association —Copyright. Auckland, January 5. Prices of iron and steel goods overseas continue to show advances, and Auckland hardSvare importers have just received advices from Great Bri tain of 10 per cent, rises in several classes of tools and builders’ hardware and also for steel shafting. These advances are on English values f.0.b., and it is pointed out that when exchange, sales tax, duties, etc., are taken into consideration the actual rise in cost to the importer is about 20 per cent. Prices in hard.* ware concerns are already reflecting in a more or less degree conditions on overseas markets. It is also emphasised by retainers and wholesalers that the added .cost of wages and services, estimated by I one concern to mean an addition in ; its expenditure of £15,000 per annum, will have an important effect on prices jn the coming year.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 326, 6 January 1937, Page 6
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152HIGHER PRICES Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 326, 6 January 1937, Page 6
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