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THOSE who scrutinise with anxious attention the progress of the British dyestuffs industry are aware that the stage now reached is one surrounded by dangers of a character more economic than technical. The Dyestuffs (Importation) Act has been in operation during fifteen months, and at the outset of this period two main factors contributed to smooth administration. As a consequence of the Sankey judgment, this country had been flooded with German dyes in quantity and variety amply sufficient to supply the normal needs of one year's good trade; concurrently, every branch of industry was facing an abnormal depression, which reflected itself in a greatly diminished consumption of dyestuffs. It followed that the principal problems arising in regard to licensing imports were questions affecting identity or equivalence of the domestic dyes when competing with foreign products.
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British Dyestuffs Industry. Nature 109, 501–502 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109501a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109501a0