FOREIGN MADE GOODS.
In an interview at Christcburch yesterday, the Hon F. M. B. Fisher, Minister, of Customs, stated that he hoped to place the Trades Description Bill on the Statute Book next session. This Bill provides that every importer of goods must declare on the invoice the country of origin of tho goods, so that foreign-made goods • may-, hf, o^operly . taxed against British rhjiriufaoturei-s- 'the. Official Year-Book states that, of the goods imported from the United Kingdom in 1908 v > estimated, that 90 per cent was the produce or manufacture *6f Britain and Ireland, the balance being reexports, the origin of which lia« not been traced. How the importers arc going tomake the declaration required by the Minister of Customs we arc at a loss to know. How is the indenter through a Home firm going to discriminate between Jifoods manufac- ' tured in England and those manufactured in Germany, for instance? The affixing of the words "made in England" to the goods themselves will not be a sufficient guarantee. /
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 26 November 1912, Page 4
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170FOREIGN MADE GOODS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 26 November 1912, Page 4
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