COTTON GOODS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1938, Page 5

COTTON GOODS

INCREASED EGYPTIANS DUTIES PROTESTS IN LANCASHIRE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 27. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade received a deputation from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce regarding the recent increases in the Egyptian Customs duties on cotton yarns and cotton piece goods. The deputation included representatives of spinning, manufacturing, finishing, and exporting interests. It expressed the grave anxiety felt in Lancashire at the unexpected and severe increases in the Egyptian cotton duties, and urged the Government to make urgent representations on the matter. Emphasis was laid on the feeling in Lancashire circles that the result of the tariff changes could only have the effect of still further reducing the volume of exports of British textiles to the Egyptian market. The deputation urged the comparative advantages to Egypt, as well as the Lancashire trade, of the quota system. The Minister, in reply, expressed his complete sympathy with the case laid before him. The British Government, he said, was prepared to make further strong representations to the Egyptian Government.