BRITAIN AND JAPAN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10207, 7 April 1911, Page 5

BRITAIN AND JAPAN

THE COMMERCIAL TREATY.

DETAILS OF REDUCTIONS

(Received Last Night, 10.50 o'clock.)

LONDON, April 6. The Anglo-Japanese Treaty will generally reduce the duties in tlie statutory tariff by one-third .in the Important classes. Textiles, iron and s&eel goods, and cotton tissues will be 9§d per pound compared with 14d in the statutory tariff; fine woollens, 10£ d compared with 13d; pigiron, 2s lOd compared with 3s 5d per ton; tin plates, 24s 2d compared with 31s Id; corrugated sheets. 41s 6d, compared with 69s 2d. The Treaty stipulates that British goods shall not be more heavily taxed than goods of other nations. It enumerates Japanese exports to the value of £2.150,000 per year, which will continue to he admitted free during the twelve years the Treaty is enforced. Six months' notice will enable Great Britain to abrogate the clause. "Vl'lie Times comments on the Governi#nt's candour and fair play. Their successors would thus bo hampered if they desire to place a. duty on imports. TOKIO, April 6. Count Komura. Foreign Minister, at a banquet in celebration of -the alliance, said the alliance had well fulj- filled its purpose and was capable of yet greater good in its own sphere. The commercial Treaty happily supplemented the alliance.