Maria November, Wiener 261-5010 Lore 1976 NEWS 2033 W. 41 SERV US, SALZBU Out of the blustering, gusty damps of Austria come loden coats. Their dense, pressed wool repels rain, retains warmth. Made for braving the storm! This coachman's real leather loden green, by Salona cape. In Bae navy coat, of buttons blue $225. immaculately Salzburg, and and has a detachable traditional Also from Salzburg are these classically styled single and double breasted, in green, navy, and $168 - $196 loden coats, French blue. We have also been opening boxes of pretty Italian sweaters, and catching whiffs of sensuous Mediterranean air. This lacy black pullover of mohair (making it both light and cozy) is $70. V-necked cardigans, in and colours earth, also of are mohair, ripe $78. grain Thin in NY stripes red-brown- green. Goes with loden. Ciaou, Tyrol. This scoop-neck fine-knit => AUT re \e slim- fit plain wool pullover may be worn over a2 shirt or by In itself. bordeaux, navy, and brown, Silver-grey. Silky, with a fashionable cowl-neck, for evening. In coffee. $50. Silver-grey, cream, and In mohair, the colour of wheat, this features a generous turtle-neck, $70. Also from Italy is a simple, pleasantlypatterned, wool jersey dress. Hints of gold. $145. And, not forgetting here soft in silky pale cotton blue our is an own workshop, a woven pattern, LMW sheced with or white. $65. WHETHER OR NOT TO IMPOSE duties, and where the attempt to decide here.- is a complex we wish matter there were axe we will easier way which an CUSTOMS should But fall, not sometimes of doing business with our suppliers abroad. In darker moments, the directives from Ottawa seem like the web of a large and crazy bureaucratic spider far, far removed from the hurly burly ordinary Item: of required per inch fill out to Item: business life. there was the time count the there was of imported the customs number of we were threads cloth in order invoices. the recent to deci- sion that our Fogal pantyhose is not hosiery but knitwear and thus qualifies for customs duties of 274 % instead of 173%. Item: there is the ruling, of about a year's standing, that permits are needed for the importation of knitted cloth. Whether one imports 3 or 300 yards, the cost of the permit is the same. This has, of course, the effect that we import more fabric than we can foresee using immediately in order to forestall requesting permits. We stockpile more than before--maybe import more than before too. And this is probably just the effect the bureaucratic spider does not intend! These rules and others like them naturally give birth to oceans of paper, waves of ink, mammoth numbers of manhours both on the part of and on that of government businessmen employees. One hardly dares to contemplate the thousands, nay millions, of taxpayers' dollars that the enterprise absorbs. The tangle may have a point. But does it have enough point to justify the drain on our resources? We country. But not, whatever limitlessly so. may think, are the a wealthy spider