SUGAR DUTIES AND THE COLONIES
The West India Committee lias been informed, lleuter learns, that the Governinent has decided to give to the signatories to the Brussels Sugar Convention tho requisite six months' notico of its intention to resume complete liberty of nction in respect of their policy with regard to. sugar. It may bo recalled that when in 1913 the British Government withdrew from tho Brussels Sugar .Convention it gave n. pledge that it would not givo n preference in the duties in the market of the United Kingdom to sugar from British colonies, or to cane-sugar over Loot, without first giving eiz months' notice to the signatories to the convention. Tho West India Committee has constantly urged that such notico should be given immediately, in view of th> desirability of taking steps to secure the dovnlopmont of the British sugar industries and to render the British Empire self-supporting in reSptwt of its eugur supplies.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 7
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156SUGAR DUTIES AND THE COLONIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 7
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