OBJECT AND TERMS OF THE TREATY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 723, 24 January 1910, Page 6

OBJECT AND TERMS OF THE TREATY.

made; between; Germany "and, Portugal on Novxjnbcr '.'iO, , 130S, and was 'accepted .by the.Gortes..;|:;lt '.cbntaiuß':a:"nj6st-favbiire(i- - two 'tallies of .commodities, '(as'•!.t6')whi<ih' it'.''is ;.stipulated that ,if ' Portugal raises. her " tariff on' those, iit.the one list, she'' must simultaneously lower "it and keep it lowered on ; those, in., the - otiier.. list. • ..If Portugal raises: her tariff, for' example,'."on. woollen, silk;;-and-cotton/stuffs, 'colourvrice,. cut-' lery,'' SWaf•• machinery, she : -otU .. have: to lower it. on, ;_among other- things, - leather instruments, 1 tools, copper-wire, -. tin, Berlin wool, manufactured 'silk,' and- half-, silk materials,- t; surgical- ■( ■ \instruments, chemicals,- and , ; '-The' I ,"North-(iernian:. Ga^ettS'--Vdcalls the fact that the former. treaty of 1872 was...denounced , by.'J?6rtnga] in 1892, and neither ".nation gavei the.V otfo. "mostfavoured" treatmenC-'.ln.. 1908 the Portuguese?- Government', -..was.', empowered' -to enter into; commercial - treaties with■ for-' oign'-'n'atibnsjon ;a; "m'utitalV-jffsis, and iii p'artioular ..to * the goods, of < nil '-not . : graritiiig'" "Portugal "most-favoured-nation" treatment. 'to double duties. 'Thereupon;, Germany,.. in 'self-'-.defence, was" compelled to: make'.either: a most-favonred-nation treaty or a tariff treaty: with most-favoured-nation'. .treatment.' TbV: former; would .h'ave put Germany on 'equal 'terms -'with otlier: States, .but would'not have 'protected ;her-against a -rise -in the (Portuguese'tariff. The pre; sent treaty' has;:both; effects- and -corresponds with the treaties of Germany with most .of\the '.other Euronean 'States. ' ; Germany's 'exports to "Portugal. in, 1908 amounted to, . and her imports from . Portugal. ;to, .