The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-05
CANADIAN CONSUMER
MAY BLOCK PLAN TO
MAKE TRADE SHIFT
Statement Says Desires of Peo-
pie Cannot Be Controlled
BY Legislation

Ottawa. Ont, Aug. 5.-(P)-The Ca
madam consumer was pointed out
Friday as likely to prove the greatest
difficulty in the way of the proposed
shift OF between s1O0OOO,0OO and
5000 ,000,0 900 worth of Canadian trade
from the United States to Great
Britain.
GA report published by the Toronto
Mail and Empire saying the United;
States and Great Britain agreed to
hold trade conference following the
Ottawa parley was denied by the
state department at Washington.
The Canadian trade proposal was
announced Thursday in an official
communique of the imperial trade
conference which said the Canadian
government had made specific free
trade and additional preferential tar
if offers to the British delegation,
asking equal advantages for Canadian,
trade in Great Britain.
The statement was amended later,
however, to modify the sums stipulat
ed by bringing out the fact that
while trade agreements involving
such sums might be negotiated. the
consumer demand could not be legis-
lated into line.
The amended statement empha
sized that the conference does not
claim the government could pick up
any amount of business from one
place and arbitrarily set it down in
another. All it can do, it pointed out
is recommend.
If the consumer demand reacts t
the cheaper commodity, empire pro-
ducers might expect to increase thel.
business at the expense Of foreign
competitors. provided they are
equipped to supply the market,
Data Is Illuminating
In that respect commercial data OF!
the six industrial groups mentioned
in connection with the Canadian OF
fer were considered Illuminating.
The United States sold Canada
S81 900 900 of the s99O00,00o worth of
iron products imported during the II
months ending March. 1882, compared
with $l3.OOO,OO0 by Great Britain.
In that category were imports OF
American iron ore valued a $1,000 900
against total purchases worth 81 $780,
900; scrap iron and steel s430,000
against $4,000; castings and fittings
81 100000; tubes, pipes and fittings
81 100000 against $l600.000 engines
and boilers, $6.700,000 against $1,000:
farm implements and machinery So
600 1000 against $3.30O000: hardware
and cutlery, s1,30O,000 against 81
AOc, 600: machinery other than agri-
cultural. $21 100000 against s24,000,-
600: vehicles. $18,50OCO0 against sl9,-
100000: and stamped and coated
products, $1,2OO,0O0 against S1,500,O00
During the same period Canada i'm
proted s35,O0O,000 worth of coal OF
which the United States supplied
$50, 900, 900 and Great Britain $4,000,
GOO. American industry supplied So
600 900 worth of glass and glassware
valued at S6O0O,O00, compared witt.
s67O139 by British: $2c,000,000 worth
of chemicals and allied products val
ued at $1.oOO,oOO against 100000;
and sl2,OO0,0Oo worth Of electrical
apparatus. compared with $l0O000C
by the United Kingdom.
Because of the possible effect on
current imports it was said informa
ton of the British decisions probably
would be vague until the government
CT each country begins shaping Its
budget for the next fiscal year. Gus
toms collections are very important
item in the national finances of mos'
of them.