Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-06 | Page 7 | French Law Arouses American Importers

French Law Arouses American Importers PAIHS, March 20. Importers of American machinery have become aroused by the prospects that the .French parliament may enact a law 'requiring that all foreign products, raw or manufactured, imported into France must be marked or labeled with tho name of the country showing where it was produced. Importers of American, Canadian and English harvesting har-vesting machines say this law would seriously affect them and that it would be impossible to mark as required all the spare parts of machines shipped from those countries to France. The American and British Cham- ibers of Commerce and the Importers' union have appealed to the finance .minister to make an exception in favor fa-vor of harvesting and sewing machines. ma-chines. 'The law is still pending in parliament, the two houses having fulled thus far to agree on Its provisions.