WHAT DO DOMINIONS SAY?
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Reduction of British Tariffs on U.S. Goods
EMPIRE PREFERENCE
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(Eeceived 24, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 23. The National Union of Manufacturers has sent a memoradum to the Board of Trade protesting that the Government is prepared for political reasons to jettison portion of the Imperial preference. In eommenting on Mr. Antliony Eden's statement at Geneva on September 20 that a most-favoured nation agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom for a reduction of Customs duties would be a most effective step, the memorandum says : — "The Foreign Secretary can hardly have realised the strength of feeling in business circles of all countries that the most-favoured-nation clause needs revision, or be aware of the damage to intra-Imperial trade which would be caused if the preference now given to Dominion products over American were reduced. ' "The Dominions would be unable and unwilling to continue the preference now given to our goods, and theAmericans, with their high tariff, eannot be expected to take the Britishmanufaetured goods that will be thus shut ofl? from Dominion markets."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 5
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