B8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, May 18, 1983

‘Trade war’

a concern.

By GORD McINTOSH | Tho Canadian Prees

While most of the planet worrles about the arms :

buildup and cruise missiles,’ world economic leaders are worried about a global trade war that threatens to prolong recession,

The threat they fear is called protectionism, which can. ||

consist of anything from the Canadian government slapping: «

quotas on imported shoes to Canada Customs inspectors holding up every 10th Japanese car entering the port of

to do detailed 18. of the Blove compart- ments, as they did last summer.

Japanese inspectors, meantime, :| ‘have been known to send back Canadian-built cars because the ‘color. doesn't correspond with what's listed on “the | waybill or place Canadian potatoes under quarantine until they rotted and then send them back because they wore unfit for consump- tion.

Neither country is a virgin’ in ‘theas matters.

is what prol d the Great D. i over an entire decade and, some » believe, was an indirect cause of the Second World War.

Today protectionism is picking up steam, particularly in the United States where there is growing sentiment for such things as local content rules for auto parts production.

The world’s nations were able to reach.some agreement of trade in the disarmament treaty in 1947 called the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs. GATT is honored today by 88 nations, including Canada and Japan,

put an end to the 1980s-style trade. ed to

have led to a sevenfold increase in world trade in the 25

years following the Second ‘World War, resulting in‘ unpre- growth and

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But the new of pi i th to undo 40 years of progress towards trade peace as country after country resorts to ism to save its d supply of jobs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Secretariat says:in a position paper prepared for its conference in Belgrade’ next month.

The UN agency notes’ that uninterrupted post-war growth in world trade began to stagnate by the 1970s. World imports in the 1960s grew in real terms by about eight per cent. The rate fell to'5.6 per cent in the "70s.

With the world slumped in recession, trade has actually fallen 10 per cent in the past two years.

Most economists believe fair trading practices are something all countries will pay lip service to and even actively support in good times. But as-soon as unemploy- ment rises, up go the trade walls.

A classic case is Canada, which dropped quotas on footwear imports in the fall of 1981 and then reimposed them in the spring of 1982.

The slump in world trade and rise in protectionism that’s gone with it will be discussed at Belgrade and the economic summit among world leaders this month in Williamsburg, Va.

BACK T0 1930s

Last week, U.S. Trade Representative William Brock added his name to the growing list of officials who have warned that protectionism could turn the economic recession into a depression as bad as that of the ‘30s.

But as Basil Be i of No Telecom Ltd. of Toronto, noted basher in a speech, while few world leaders will dispute the fact protectionism is more disease than cure, simple knowledge of this doesn’t prevent it, just as knowledge that peace is better than war doesn’t eliminate war.

Kurt von dem Hagen, senior international economist with the Royal Bank of Canada, said the world is caught ina vicious circle of protectionism. As the economy gets. worse,

and as the

economy worsens. He says much of the pressure for protectionism will d as the ion does. People will also be less inclined to support protectionism as they see their country's exports rise.

But von dem Hagen joins the UN secretariat in. sounding the alarm about the fragile state of the peace GATT was supposed to establish, Both say GATT needs an update.

CANADA'S LOOPHOLE Of particular concern, says von dem Hagen, is the type of loophole Canada used when it signed an with

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image are the officers most.

likely to explode into violence! and resort to “street justice,” experts say. iS

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Stephen Coleman, a North- eastern University political scientist who has studied

Japan this year and last in which Japan agreed to volun- tarily limit car imports into this country.

Basically GATT was intended to prevent, with some exceptions, one country from aiming specific discriminatory trade measures at a particular country's goods at the border. But alla country has to dois get the other to sign a bilateral treaty agreeing to voluntary quotas.

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president of Furman Lumber, Inc.’of ‘Boston has done.

Furman will be sending out a twin ‘vol lume of ‘poetry -. extolling the virtues of British Columbia hemlock this week to.1,200 New. England lumber. dealers. ‘It’s all part of a scheme by Furman to séll'more B.C. hemlock.

Furman and two of his executives visited Vancouver last week to show their plans to executives of Eacoi Timber’. Sales Ltd., Furman’s B.C. suppliers, Doman Forest Products. : Ltd. and Tahsis Co. Ltd., the mills that produce the hemlock‘

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from Eugene; Ore., were the heyday of seeacet by ‘the big’producers, when “everyone was

en as ‘on. the bandwagon”‘and he was conducting two or

three-day marketing conferences a couple of times a year. . Then: the ‘industry ‘switched its focus from product

‘marketing, Prof.’ Stuart Rich of the’ ‘University 4 Oregon, “says Furman’s campaign’ is unusual ard ingenious. “I can't think off hand of ‘any, wholesaler that's bringing :

“It's usually the. p ‘take campaigns, usually» vaimed wholesalers . like Furman,

Furman sells, and Forest Minister’ Tom land and his: deputy, Mike Apsey..°' -

There's nothing special about Furman's hemlock, The same product is sold by other wholesalers, *

But Furman hopes his campaign will’ make his hemlock stand out in the minds of Boston-to-Baltimore lumberyards. To make it, in his words, “the Bayer. of aspirin products.”

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ufacturers’ ‘Association {ILMA) held its annual meet-:

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elected two new executive

vice-president (Evans Prot ucts Company Ltd):

This year's annual meeting i

“reflected: a degree of :op-°

timism about the future,’ ac: cording to a prepared release from the ILMA. Industry has just experienced a number of.

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building products depression,. however, have forced the

industry. to start promoting its products again. MARKET ORIENTED

“Now it’s swinging back and getting more market oriented.”

If Furman’s campaign is successful, his hemlock sales will increase | 25 per.cent: He sold 200 million board feet of hemlock last year. -

‘Af successful, he ‘will: reverse the gains southern U.S. to ‘the framing-lumber business. The

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WINNIPEG (CP) — Tank trailers carrying a chemical called liquid anhydrous. ammonia are a common‘ sight wheeling down Prairie roads this spring as farmers Prepare for seeding. .

The chemical has been growing | in popularity as one of the-most useful farm fertilizers but its dangerous side is causing concern: for rural towns and villages.

-As a liquid, the colorless ammonia is cold enough to freeze flesh. Because it’s anhydrous — without water — the

est Products, Federated co. operatives Limited, Canoe.

Fred McLellan — General Manager, Clearwater Timber Products Ltd., Clearwater; Fred Mills — Vice-president Industrial Relations Man- ager, Evans Products Com-

ia can also : ‘k-water from skin and eyes, causing

‘ severe burns,

In the space Sof two days last week, a church i in Brandon, Man.,-and homes and businesses. in Ninette, about 45 kilometres to the south, were evacuated after tankers carrying the chemical overturned.

There were no injuries in either accident, despite the rupture of the tank at Ninette, just west of Winnipeg.

Warren Rusk, executive secretary of the. Union of

pany Ltd., K Rich- ard Nelson. —’ President, Atco Lumber Limited, Fruit- vale; Paul Perkins — Man- ager of Sales and Distrution, Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd., Kamloops; Ron Price — Vice- President, Finance and Sec- retary, Slocan Forest Prod-_ ucts Ltd., Richmond; Gerald Raboch — Managing Direc- tor, Riverside Forest Prod- ucts Ltd., Lumby.

Mike Rouse — Vice-Presi- dent, Wood Products, Crest- brook Forest Industries Ltd., Cranbrook; Jim Smith — Business Unit: Controller, Crown.’ Zellerbach Canada Limited, Kelowna; Bill Uphill — Vice-President, Forestry and Timberlands, Pope and Talbot’ Ltd, Grand Forks; Jack Wigen —- President, Wynndel Box and Lumber Co, Ltd., Wynndel.

said the danger of a spill is especially high in the spring as farmers and fertilizer dealers rush to’ get’ the ammonia to fields-in time for seeding.

- “This is the time of the year when it’s going to happen,” said Rusk. CONCERNED: FOR YEARS

Rusk said n for years about ammonia tanks being. hehe down their main streets

Siege ends when man surrenders

KELOWNA. (CP) — An armed man surrendered Tuesday after holding police at bay for more than five hours, during which 12 to 15 shots were fired.

The 28-year-old man, des- cribed by police as extremely despondent, fired several shots at police cruisers but no one was injured.

A few hours after the siege began the man allowed his two. children, aged two and seven, to leave the house. They were with their mother at a neighbor's house.

The incident ended when the man walked from the house, laid down a rifle he was holding and was hand- cuffed and taken away.

at seeding time. Smaller, four-wheel tank trailers are pulled behind cultivators to pump ammonia into the soil to add valuable nitrogen.

Brandon Ald. Ross Martin said a disaster is inevitable because of the growing number of accidents with anhydrous

ammonia. " In addition to the accidents at Ninette and Brandon, a truck pulling an ammonia tank rolled over into a ditch recently at Souris, Man., and storage tanks at Medora, Man., and Dauphin, Man., developed leaks earlier this year. There were no injuries.

However, there Ms been at least one death due to A truck driver died

_ Several years ago aoe he inspected a leak on an ammonia

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Mark S y. for the f P ment. department, said two bills before the Manitoba legislature will deal with the problem. The proposed legisla- tion will tighten laws covering the storage and transporta- tion of h goods such as

He said:the ‘rapid growth in the use of anhydrous ammonia has: meant that some workers haven't been properly trained, and tanks at storage depots have often been built too close to towns,

Industry officials say its use on the Prairies has doubled in the last -10 years.

tees BUSIEST SEASON F At the Simplot Chemical Co. Ltd. plant in Brandon, as

PENTICTON (CP) —The Insurance Corp. of B.C., if allowed to continue in its

present form, will end up |

burying the independent in- surance agents in the prov- ince, the president of the In- surance Agents Association of B.C. said Monday.

Conrad Spiers, in address. ing the 35th annual conven- tion of the association, des- eribed ICBC as “a monolithic albatross around our necks, around the entire insurance industry.

He told the 250 delegates,

most of whom are indepen--

dent agents, that they must stand together to protect the insurance industry in the short and long run.

Speirs went on to say the provincial government must review its policies in the area of ICBC.

“Since its a inception (by the

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many. as 60 tanker trucks are filled with the chemical each day ‘during the height of the season in late April and throughout May. .

.. Simplot ‘general manager Edmund Crowder said he is confident that fertilizer dealers. and their truckers are sufficiently careful and properly trained.

»\He said the Brandon accident involved a semi-trailer truck'that had just picked up a load of anhydrous ammonia from the plant. But Crowder said this was the first incident in Brandon since the plant opened in 1966.

Crowder said Simplot and farm supply dealers: hold regular courses in the safe handling of anhydrous ammonia. Simplot ‘also maintains a 15- i foun trained and ipped to| handle sp! The team has responded to four accidents this year me Manitoba.

Party eumont in 1973), private insurers in B.C. have lobbied government to have the gen- eral division of ICBC dis- banded,” he said. The general division excludes automobile insurance and covers ‘such areas as homeowners and commercial users, industry and institutions,

“It is only a destabililzing factor in the

(That association sent a letter last month to U.S. politicians and businessmen accusing Canada of using “intense political pressure” to successfully battle a petition to the U.S. government to place a ‘countervailing duty on Canadian lumber exported to the U.S.)

Furman expects to spend $50,000 for his campaign, which Rich, the marketing professor, said is “quite a lot for a wholesaler to be spending.”

Furman’s marketing scheme, if unusual ‘for "the wholesale lumber trade, isn't unusual for his company. It advertised Ontario waferboard as a plywood substitute during radio broadcasts of last season’s New England Patriots football games and is doing the same thing for this season's Boston Red Sox baseball games.

Hawk Furman comes by his. marketing enthusiasm honestly. Before joining the family business, he worked for Procter and Gamble, the biggest advertiser in the U.S., the people behind Crest toothpaste, Ivory soap, Tide detergent and Pampers.

House selling ‘applied to cars.

VANCOUVER (CP) — A California solution to the image and inventory problems of used car dealers is being offered to Canadian dealers and motorists.

Behind the scheme are Jim Cummings and Art Bartlett, the men who founded the Century 21 real estate franchise in the U.S., and Peter Thomas of Victoria, the man who started Century 21 in Canada and turned its operations, by one estimate, into a $2-billion-a-year enterprise.

The plan, which applies house-selling techniques to used car marketing, was unveiled recently by Cummings at a local seminar for Vancouver area car dealers.

In an earlier interview, Cummings explained the genesis of the idea. Cummings and Bartless were casting about for projects after the purchase of Century 21 by Trans World Airlines was completed in 1979.

‘The two men were approached in 1981 by some Les

. Angeles-area car dealers.

The car dealers had a problem. Demand for used cars was soaring because customers couldn't afford new cars, But the dealers said they couldn't get enough quality used cars into their lots and didn't want to jeopardize their image by

a selling poor-quality: cars.

Bartlett-eolution-was-to offer the*car-~~

: Ci dealers what they now call their TRIEX program, in which

owners consign their vehicles to a dealer for regale. GETS CAR SOLD

"The motorist gets his car sold and the dealer is relieved of the costs of purchasing inventory.

Included in the arrangement is a six-month, & 000-mile

ig most said. That alone should be enough to boost he used car dealer's image. Down the road, the franchise hopes to offer financing, he added.

The cost of using the TRIEX name in the U.S. is $10,000 for a five-year agreement and $800 for a service fee. Each member of the franchise agrees to spend $2,000 a month on local advertising using the TRIEX name and logo. And TRIEX itself contributes 10 per cent of its fee income to developing marketing and advertising ideas.

The advertising isn't aimed so much at car-buyers as car-sellers. Its purpose is to get used cars onto the lots.

Triexcellence, Inc., has signed 40 dealers in California and has begun to expand outside the state. One of the first dealers: outside California to join the Hal Earnardt, a Ford dealer in a Phoenix, Ariz., suburb. He needed used cars.

His used-car business, after one year with the TRIEX program, has doubled to 60 cars on the lot and 30 to 35 sales | a month, he said in a telephone interview. He saves the cost of a $3 million to $4 million inventory.

NOT NEW

Consignment schemes aren't new in the U.S., he said, but plans that meet with the full approval of the state attorney general, the state automobile dealers’ association and the Better Business Bureau were unusual in his experience.

At Earnhardt’s dealership, the dealer takes title to the car. He and the seller agree on a price at which the car will sell, Any revenues above that go to the dealer. But other dealers do sell on commission.

Cars aré usually brought up to warranty standards by the dealer: because ‘he can offer the seller discount repair rates. That brings another benefit for the dealer: more service centre work..

The Canadian rights to TRIEX have been sold to Thomas for a substantial fee that Cummings declined to disclose, plus 10 per cent of the Canadian operation's gross income..

Vancouver passes ‘83 school budget

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Vancouver school board's long awaited and frequently revised 1983 budget squeak- ed through final approval Monday on a 54 vote.

Board chairman Kim Campbell cast the deciding ballot after four trustees lined up solidly against ap- proval of the $169.3 million operating budget.

It will mean net school taxes (after deduction of the $380 h grant) of

he said, adding that “the Social Credit government must revise its policies in this

about $169 to the average Vancouver homeonwer.

Under the Education (In- terim) Finance Act, the

school board was required to approve its 1983 budget and tax rate bylaw by Tuesday.

The school board's 1983 budget has been revised a number of times over the past few months because of different directives from Vic- toria over acceptable limits.

In February, the board ap- proved a $168.8 million 1983 budget that was $9.4 million above the $159.4 million limit set by the education ministry but $9.9 million below the $178.7 million that would be needed to maintain the same level of services in 1983 as existed in 1982.