EXPORT TRADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1942, Page 3

EXPORT TRADE

PREPARATION FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. / DISCUSSION IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 13. The announcement that the Board ■of Trade has appointed a representative committee of industrialists to prepare for the future development of British export trade, ‘has led to speculation in the Press as to the directions such developments may take. “The Times” says export trade can flourish only in a world where the standards of living of the potential customers are progressively rising, so promotion of prosperity in other countries is of direct British interest. There must be an end to the conception of international trade as a. dogfight in which a bone of fixed dimensions is scrambled for and hope of gain depends on excluding some hungry competitor. Planning for the future must be done in terms of commodities rather than countries. If Britain was to be true to the policy of non-discriminatory trade, which was proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter as the goal of the United Nations, the first question arising was what commodities could be placed on the world market which were of better quality or more efficiently produced than could be found elsewhere. The whole issue was bound up with future AngloAmerican relations. The struggle foi markets would be detrimental to both.