TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 162, 26 November 1912, Page 5

TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

TARIFF REVISION. OF GREAT VALUE TO NEW ZEALAND Christcliurch, November 22. After several months' absence in America, during which he represented the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce at the , fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce, Mr. Albert Kaye returned to Christcliurch to-day. Interviewed regarding the possibilities of increased trade between the United States and ' New Zealand, Mr. Kaye said, when in America, the question was in everyone's mouth. , It was foreseen that if the Democrats got into power there would •be a revision of the tariff in the direction chiefly of letting in raw products to the United States, if not free, at least on a lower scale of duties thap those at present imposed. The majority of business men with whom Mr. Kaye spoke on the subject considered that tariff revision on these lines would be a splendid thing for the United States. There were, of coui'Be, others who thought theo ther way, but as tariff revision was one of the main planks of Dr. Woodrow Wilson's Presidential platform, it must be.assumed that the majority of people were in favor of it. 'No doubt this revision of the United States tariff would eventually be of great value to New Zealand and other British posssssions, and would affect New Zealand in the matter of wool and woollen products, pelts, butter and frozen meat. The comparatively early completion of the Panama Canal, it was expected, would bring New Zealand into closer communication with Eastern States by regular lines of steamers, and this, in conjunction with the revision of the United States tariff, was of material importance to. New Zealand producers. Already the business people of the United iStates were making their pians in view of the changes that the opening of the canal would bring about.