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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 67

Protection only protects what a country can produce to advantage for itself

Protection only protects what a country can produce to advantage for itself.

Protection places no difficulty in the way of the whole community obtaining any foreign necessary or luxury, if such cannot be produced to advantage in the protected country, but Protection is only given to those articles which can be and ought to be readily made or manufactured, and which it is to the advantage of the country that they should be manufactured on the spot. Small duties, for instance, are placed on such necessaries as Tea and Sugar, for one reason be cause they are necessaries, and secondly, because they cannot be produced in the Colony; but New Zealand has for instance hides and skins and everything necessary for the manufacture of all kinds of leather goods in abundance: Protection would place heavy duties on all leather goods, because they can and ought to be easily produced here: Freetrade, on the other hand would put no duty whatever on leather goods; or, if it was necessary for the purposes of revenue that a duty should be charged, an excise duty would also be demanded from the New Zealand Manufacturer before they left his factory, to the same amount as was exacted page 5 by the Customs from the Importer. If the policy of Freetrade becomes the policy of New Zealand, all the hides and skins and bark must he sent to England, and all the leather goods imported from England to New Zealand.