THE BRITISH TARIFF
THE FREE TRADERS’ CASE. Press Association.—By Electrie - r: Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Aug. 31. One hundred leading bankers, business men, ami others, including Lords Bradbury and Grey, Rt. Hon Walter rßunciman, Mr L. S. Montagu, Mr R. L. Barclay, Sirs Hugh Bell and Arthur Boworth have signed, a reply ,to the recent bankers’ resolution, of July 4th. ,(in favour of the policy of tariff protection). .The reply is one pointing out that many of the signatories of the resolution of July 4th. signed a plea for the removal of tariffs and made restritions four years earlier, •but. they bad been apparently disappointed.
V*The signatories of the new mani•jfesto State that they find no reason to suppose that the existing depression is remediable by the addition of customs duties tHat would decrease »foreign trade. The first need of the British producers competing on foreign markets, they state, is to cheapen the costs of production for those goods. It would be suicidal to impose duties on raw materials or food.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 3
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169THE BRITISH TARIFF Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 3
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