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FLIGHT FEBRUARY 15TH, 1945 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS AFRICAN AIR TALKS A REGIONAL Southern African air transport conference isto be held in Capetown towards the end of March, prob- ably on March 20th. Britain and Southern Khodesia will be represented, and Kenya, Nyassaland and other British African territories are being invited to participate. The conference will be devoted to a detailed discussion of problems connected with Commonwealth trunk routes and U-eder network. Discussion with Portuguese East and West Africa and Bel- gian Congo, which are not participating at the conference, are expected to take place at some later date. AIRPORT FOR NORTH-EAST A NEWCASTLE conference decided on further steps towardstin provision of an airport for the North-East. Local authorities and industrialists agreed that a prominentfirm of airport consultants should be engaged to make a detailed survey of the region so as to advise on the position of an air-port ami on its size and sc.npe. The possibility ol a combined land and seaplane base will also be considered. The project was lirst launched some four months ago at ameeting of northern local authorities in Sunderland, convened by Lord Londonderry, Lord-Lieutenant of County Durham. US-EIRE A CCORD1NG to the Air Transport agreement concluded Xx between the U.S. and the Eire Government, authorised airlines of the United States are accorded in "the territory of Ireland " rights of transit—non-traffic stop, and commercial entry for international traffic at the Shannon Airport (Foynes and Rynanna) on the routes from the U.S. to Ireland and countries beyond via intermediate points in both directions. All eastbound and westbound aircraft on the routes concerned should stop at the Shannon Airport as the first and last European port of call. Airlines of Ireland authorised under the agreement are accorded in the territory of the U.S. rights of transit, non- traffic stop, and commercial entry for international traffic at specific airports "in connection with such route or routes as may be determined at a later date." Aircraft which have to make non-traffic stops may be required to offer reasonable commercial service in passengers, cargo, and mail, both outwards and inwards. The commercial rights granted by the agreement are to be taken up at earliest practicable date '' except in the case of temporary inability to do so." The proposed services are not. detailed. They will come into ' operation as soon as the contracting parties have authorised the airlines for the route. Operating rights granted previously by either party are to continue in force. The agreement also provides for the most-favoured-nation treatment to fuel and parts imported by either party for the sole use by authorised airlines, and an exemption from Customs duties of equipment, fuel, etc., retained on board of aircraft. RECOMMENDEDT HE U.S. Chamber of Commerce advocates the acceptance by the U.S. of the agreements on international aviation proposed by the Chicago Conference '' as opening the way for the prompt development of international aviation and helping, to bring about the widesgread extension of trade and commerce throughout the world to the benefit of all participating countries." • The Chamber is submitting its recommendations to the Senate Committees at present examining the agreements. EGYPTIAN POLICY IN the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies, Prime Minister Ahmed,Maher Pasha said that Egypt's post-war aviation polk-y will not tolerate foreign owned airports on Egyptian soil. Air- fields woukl be Egyptian owned but foreign Governments and companies would be allowed to use them. The statement was made in reply to a question by a Nationalist deputy alleging that the U.S. propose to maintain the present .airfields in Egvpt for civil and international police aviatiqn after the war. CANADA WANTS EXPORTS . A SURVEY of export possibilities of the Canadian atrcraxindustry was recently completed by the Air Industries and Transport Association of Canada. The findings are the subject of a memorandum submitted to the Government by R. B. C. Noorduyn, president of the Asso- ciation, and supplemented by a brief on the Customs tariff relating to the aircraft industry, which was submitted to the Government in June, 1944. In the previous brief it was submitted that provision should be made in Trade Treaties for preferential tariff treatment on aircraft produced in Canada; that a protective duty should be maintained by Canada on aircraft and substantially com- plete components; and parts, materials and components not made in Canada should be exempted from duty. On the same grounds a revision of the rate of duty was^ recommended for aircraft of a type or capacity of which no equivalent is manu- factured in Canada. Two outstanding facts are pointed out in the new survey; in the first place, the benefit of free importation of aircraft into Canada is granted by Canada to seventy-seven British countries, whereas forty-six British countries extend to reciprocal privilege of free importation of Canadian aircraft. Of these countries which extend no preference in tariff on aircraft, several con- stitute an important part of the Empire from, the standpoint of export trade, such as Newfoundland, Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and British India. The second fact emerging from the survey is that while the tariff rate on aircraft imported into Canada from the United States and from twenty-four other foreign countries under the Most Favoured Nation treatment clause is 20 per cent., none of these countries, with one exception, grant Canada any tariff preference on aircraft or aircraft parts. As an instance the' Canadian rate of duty on aircraft imported from the United States is 20 per cent., and on aircraft parts ranges from " free " to 15 per cent., while the American duty on Canadian aircraft and on complete parts exported to the United States is 30 per cent. These factors have prompted the industry to urge that negotia^ tions be entered into with foreign countries which enjoy Most Flavoured Nation treatment, and with others, with a view to secur- ing reciprocal tariff preferences on aircraft when exported to such countries. FLIGHTSTOPS : Runways built along highways, equipped with telephones, lest rooms, auto- matic fuel pumps are planned by the U.S. Aeronautical Cham- ber of Commerce in their countrywide campaign for the expansion of landing facilities for the private owner. The Chamber urges the construction of several thousands of " Flight- stops '' during the next five years.
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