Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

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Identifikator:: 1800540760

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-185131

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on the trade in refrigerated beef, mutton and lamb

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: vi, 65 Seiten; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The trade in Great Britain

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3) their finding is then applied to the whole parcel. In the case of serious damage, the whole parcel may be examined. (b) For Quality—When a buyer has bought forward, and his goods on arrival are not up to what he considers to be the standard called for, he has the right to a * quality * survey. The buyer writes a note to his supplier telling him that the goods are not up to standard, demanding a survey for quality, and naming his representative. The seller thereupon names his representative. Neither must have any interest in the goods. After examination, they give their award, or, in the event of disagreement, the matter is referred to an umpire. If, as a result of such a survey, some of the goods are found not to be up to the standard of the sale, the buyer has the right to an allowance, or to invoice such portion back to the seller at the market price of the quality of the goods bought. If more than 20 per cent. are assessed as being below quality, the buyer has the right under his contract to reject the whole tender at the market price of the day. The losing party in a survey pays the costs—a provi- sion which tends to prevent the calling of survevs for inadequate reasons. Quality surveys are more frequently called in times of falling prices than in times of rising prices, and this is regarded by producers as a grievance. While, on occasions, this grievance may be justified, it must be remembered that irregularities of quality are often passed over by the trade when business is brisk, because time is valuable and feeling more tolerant; when prices are falling and sales are difficult to arrange, a merchant has more time to examine his purchase, and is more disposed to look for faults than virtues. After all, the merchant would reply to the producer who felt himself aggrieved by the calling of a survey, that the remedy was in his own hands and that, by rigid and impartial grading, quality surveys would become almost a thing of the past. It may be observed that the surveyors employed are usually themselves salesmen, and although there is no reason to suppose that surveys are not carried out with fairness to both sides, yet, it follows, that circumstances must, at times, make impartiality difficult. There are surveyors who are not themselves traders, but there is no compulsion to employ them, nor is there a registered panel of approved surveyors, prepared by either producers or sellers, to do this work. (iii) Wholesale Merchanting. (a) General.—The principal ports through which frozen mutton and lamb and chilled and frozen beef enter Great Britain are London, Liverpool, Southampton, Manchester, Hull, Avonmouth, Newcastle and Glasgow, in the order of the magnitude of the trade; chilled imports are, however, confined to the first three. Formerly Liverpool was the business centre of the trade owing to its convenient situation for North Atlantic shipments, London being the finance centre. To-day this is entirely changed, the trade as a whole is now tending to focus on London. Table III on p. 60. shows the quantities

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