EXPORTS
Sus,—In his article Thr Export Pa/aver Nicholas Davenport states:
It may be true that the British exporters are not taking enough advantage of their privileged position in the continental markets of the Seven, but even if they were . . .
Have we a privileged position?
The company I represent is comparatively small, but more than 35 per cent, of our turnover is direct export.
In the Seven countries the import duty on our pro- ducts is the same as the import duty on German and Belgian products, our chief competitors.
When we export to the Common Market the Germans and Belgians have an advantage within the Common Market of from 3 per cent. to 5 per cent. lower duty, depending on the country to which the import is being made, and this differential is going to ihcrease.
Surely it is for the Government to have anomalies of this kind adjusted before appealing to us to in- crease our exports. From what I have been able to glean they do not propose to do anything about it.— Yours faithfully,
D. C. B. SWINDEN
26A Queen's Gate, Kensington, SW?
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