The Archive · 1938

Egyptian Textile Tariff

Bombay, Apr, 22.

'The MILL Owners Association drew the "Indian Government's attention today to the increases in the Egyptian textile tariff which, it states, with seriously' cripple Indian exports, The Association Urges the Government to negotiate for a restoration of the fold. tariff rates, or, alternatively, to associate itself with the British Gov-Jernment in a protest—Reuter, for the current ye accordingly decided on a conservative estimate of 3,050,000 metric tons.

It was pointed out that the United Kingdom "stocks available for con sumption were lower by an unknown amount than the visible stocks might Indicate, as the above figures did not take into account the stocks bought by the British Government as announced by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech, "The next meeting of the Councit will take place on July Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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