BIG CONCESSIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 7

BIG CONCESSIONS

TRADE WITH YUGOSLAVIA

AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN

(British Official Wireless.) (Received January 6, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, January 5,

The Yugoslav Cabinet is reported to have approved the results of negotiations recently concluded with Britain during the visit to London in November of M. Pilja, head of the Foreign Trade Department of the Yugoslav Ministry of Commerce and embodied in a declaration of unilateral concessions by Britain in favour of Yugoslav farm produce. The consideration which weighed with the British Government in granting these exceptional concessions in accordance with the mutual support undertaking contained in article 16, paragraph 3, of the Covenant of the League of Nations, was the fact that Yugoslavia has suffered particular hardship in carrying out her part in collective action in imposing economic sanctions on Italy, which normally represents her best market. Concessions granted by Britain in this agreement are unilateral. They provide for added facilities for the marketing of Yugoslav farm produce in Britain and include in regard to: (1) Bacon, an additional allowance of 400 cv.-t per week; (2) eggs, free entry limited to allowance at the rate of 200,000cwt per annum; (3) turkeys (dead), a reduction of duty from 3d to Id per pound limited to a quantity of 60,000cwt per annum; (4) chickens (dead), a reduction of duty from 3d to Id per pound limited to an allowance at the rate of 20,000cwt per annum.