With regard to the importation of wet sulphite wood-pulp from Canada
and the United States, according to a bulletin just issued by the Trade
and Commerce Department, the British Royal Commission on Paper have
decided that where they are satisfied that this pulp contains moisture
in excess of the quantity contained in ordinary dry pulp, they will
grant licenses for that excess up to, but not exceeding, 40 per cent.
of the total weight, in the case of pulp arriving in the United Kingdom
after August 7. The pulp must be imported on the ordinary licenses
issued by the commission. The amount of moisture excess must be proved
by the certificate of a competent chemist.