TARIFF REFORM
AND UNIONISTS' PROPOSALS. DUTY ON GOODS. (Received S a.m.) LONDON. January 31. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, speaking at Redditch last night in reference to the attitude of the I'niomst party to tariff reform, said they would propose tn impose roughly a 10 per ,-ent duty on manufactured goods 'rnported into Great Britain. They would suggest a less duty where the coods were a prime necessity, or where they were in the first stages of manufacture. On the other hand they would impose a higher duty where the goods were luxuries or carried the last stains of manufacture.
The party proposed to give colonial preference in respect of every duty where such preference would be useful to any part of the Empire. If it were sought to giv • colonial preference by means of duties imposed on food stuffs, then the party would have to seek a fresh mandate from the people.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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