TRADE: Lamb exports: where to now?*

So far as the Government is concerned, we might reasonably conclude that the dispute over lamb exports to the United States is now over.According to this writer’s understanding, the result goes something like this. From November 15 the minor irritant of a three per cent tariff will be abolished on Australia’s lamb imports into the US. A much more serious impediment to our exporters – the punitive 24 per cent tariff on all imports in excess of 81.5 million pounds weight – is also to disappear. Th…

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