Summarized, they come under the following heads:
(a) Unreasonable Customs regulations of tariffs, (b) Discriminatory Customs reulations.
Arbiteaty import and export regulations (d) Tax discriminations and legal barriers.
(e) Governmental afd private]
Monopolies.
Patents ang trade marks.
(g) Parcel post.
(h) Advertising matter and samples.
Some of these are, of cours cankers, but it will be of interest to thaders in Asia, whether of Ametican nationality or not, to specify further the principal barriers now considered by the Association above_ referred to stand in the way of easy; world trade.
1 will take them at random. In Latin-American countries high profective tariffs on goods not manufac. fared. in those countries should be removed. Clock and fountain pen manufacturers complain about the 100 per cent. duty on imports into Japan, and manufacturers generally) here characterize Customs regulations in Brazil, Chile and Venezusla as so Unreasonable as to be a great ment itself. The government of] that day wishing to raise ready money, used this means of accomplishing their ends. The lors of the Vestey interests tothe Territory, owing to Labour trouble when that portion of Australia practically developed Bolshevism in its most pronounced form, was a calamity from which the area has never recovered. Railway communication with the east coast appears to be her only solution, and the development of Darwin as a port as suggested by Sir George will enable transport overseas made from a more convenient angle than as at the moment, when the whole coastline of Australia has practically to be covered before a vessel leaves for Great Britain, or the United States of America. Time will not solve the problem if the advice of experts is to be continually ignored jas in the past, and it is hoped that Mr. Bruce will not relegate the report to the archives of Parl ment House or lose it int transfer to the new seat of Federal Government at Canberra during, detriment to tradal growth, Here fare. some other
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