Times-Advocate, 1979-07-11, Page 27EAST WILLIAMS GRADUATES The annual grade eight graduation exercises were held recently at East Williams Central
School. Back, left, Kendal Rowley, Ingrid Doak, Matthew Furmstum, Mike Hutchison, Blair Tweddle, Brian McLaughlin,
Jonathon Arnel and Kenton Otterbein. Third row, teacher E. Nicholls, Jennifer Toews, Wendy Brunner, Wendy Currie, Cindy
Hooper, Elizabeth Ingham, Connie Thomspon and Mary Ann Watson. Second row, Mike Mitchell, Diana Dixon, Jennifer
Davies, Bonnie McPhee and Karen McLaughlin, Front, Debbie Watson, Kelly McFadden, Dean Bender, music teacher Mrs. P.
Schram, Jim Fletcher and Steven McLeish. Missing were Kim McFadden, Murray Ravelle, Jim Simpson and Anita Boushaw,
DRAW FOR RUG AT SHOW — As part of the activities at the first and second allbreedchampioriship dog show held at the
South Huron Rdc Centre by the Bluewater Kennel Club, a draw on a sheepskin rug was held. Purchasing a ticket from club
members Noala Bradley and Dave Werrett was the event's official photographer W.E. Stonham of Fenwick. T-A photo
Exeter's Mainway stores have joined
together to bring you hundreds of
dollar stretching specials. Much of the
merchandise has been moved out on
the sidewalk for your shopping con-
venience. Get super values for the
whole family....see you there.
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All entries in various contests do so at their own risk.
Eight percent of exports enter U.S. duty-free irin,"-Advocate, yly 11,.1979
New tariff schedules represent progress says McKinley
Huron-Bruce member of
Parliament Bob McKinley
reports that new tariff
schedules reflecting the
progress made during the
recently concluded '"Tokyo
round" of tariff talks have
now been released by the
Federal Government,
This lengthy round of so-
called GATT talks (General
Agreement of Tariffs and
, Trade) begin in 1973 and
ended only in April of this
year. Nearly one hundred
countries participated,
Canada, which is one of the
top trading nations
wit
world, has been involved'
deeply in the talks since the
beginning. We export more
than half of what we produce
in Canada. To cite one
example of our relative
trading importance, we have
just become, within the past
world's largest
exporter to fish,
People in Huron-Bruce
riding will be directly af-
fected by some of the
breakthroughs at the talks,
according to McKinley, both
in general terms and in
specific areas of local
production.
In general, the agreements
reached during the talks will
reduce world tariff levels by
one-third, so that most
imported goods will cost less
to the consumer, while most
exported goods will be able
to compete for foreign
markets without facing the
additional hurdle of trade
barriers erected by the
customer country.
In specific terms, this
region of Canada will be af-
fected by agreements
bearing directly on a wide
range of products produced
by industries already
established in our area.
In agriculture, Canada has
made an important tariff-
reducing agreement
covering more than eighty
per cent of our dutiable
exports to the United States,
Products which will benefit
from the U.S. trade con-
cessions include live cattle,
certain meats, grains and
oils, as well as potatoes and
horticultural products.
With Japan, our
agreement increases the
quota within which Canada
can compete for high grade
beef sales, There will also be
valuable concessions from
Japan on tobacco, rye,
rapeseed, mustard seed and
vegetable oils.
Also in the agricultural
sector, an important deal
with the European Economic
Community will allow im-
proved access to Canadian
exports of white beans, and
important crop in Huron
County, as well as to aged
cheddar, canned and frozen
corn, and maple products
and blueberries. There is
also a major European
concession on Canadian
tobacco.
In fisheries, several
concessions have been
achieved. Of particular
interest to this region of
Ontario is an agreement by
the United States to grant
easier access to Canadian
freshwater perch. McKinley
noted that the presently
dePressed Lake Huron
fishery has in most years
depended heavily on this
fish, and expressed hope that
this concession would help to
restore a measure of health
to the local industry.
In one industrial
manufacturing sector
agreements have also been
reached which will open new
exporting opportunities to
existing industries
throughout the region.
Mouldings and pre-cut
housing components will be
granted major tariff
reductions for entry into the
U.S. market. Similarly,
doors and sashes entering
Japan, as well as pre-fab
sectional housing, will
qualify for a significant
tariff cut.
An aircraft agreement has
been reached by which the
U.S., Europe and Japan,
along with other industrial
countries, will completely
remove tariffs next January
on all civil aircraft, engines,
parts, flight simulators and
avionics systems, as well as
aircraft repair and overhaul.
Canada, a recongnized
leader in many aspects of the
aerospace industry, has
already suspended her own
tariffs on aerospace
products for many years, so
that we can only stand to
gain from this agreement.
The aerospace industry is an
important contributor to the
economy of this region,
employing many people in
the southern part of Huron
County.
American tarifts on im-
ported machinery will fall
mostly below four per cent
under the new agreements,
and many items will enter
the U.S., duty on
manufactured goods will
now run about five to seven
per cent. Canadian tariffs,
by comparison, will drop on
average from about fififteen
per cent to nine per cent.
For Canadians, the
significant figure in the
industrial sector is that some
eighty percent of our exports
to the U.S. will now enter
duty-free, if we include the
auto pact.
"Clearly," says McKinley,
"there are increased trade
possibilities ahead for
Canada that offer great
opportunities to existing
industries here in Huron-
Bruce. In many areas of
agriculture, as well as in
aerospace, heavy
to compete under the old
tariff system well enough to
survive. Under the new
agreements, these existing
industries should receive
fresh encouragement,"
in the year, the
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FISHING A FRIDAY AWAY — On those lazy first few days of a summer vacation fishing can
'be the ideal way to while away the time. Trying their skills at Riverview Park were Raymond
Chong and Darryl Little. T-A photo
machinery, housing com- Bruce region has been able
ponents, and also in the
presently depressed fresh-
water fishery, the Huron-