NEW TREATY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1930, Page 7

NEW TREATY.

BRITAIN AND RUMANIA

Pact to Help Commerce and Navigation.

EXTENSIVE PROVISIONS

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, August 6. A treaty of commerce and navigation between the United Kingdom and Rumania, which was signed at the Foreign Office in London this afternoon, will not come formally into force until ratifications have been exchanged. Letters were exchanged, however, on signature between Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, and M. Tilea, head of the Rumanian delegation. In these it was agreed to bring the treaty provisionally into force tomorrow, pending the exchange of ratifications which will take some time to complete. Otherwise British goods would have become liable to the duties of the Rumanian general tariff on September 1. By this treaty each party accords to the ships and subjects of the other, the most favoured nation treatment in all matters relating to commerce, navigation .and industry, the carrying on of business and the exercise of professions or occupations. Other provisions of the treaty, which is designed to prepare the _ way in all respects for closer commercial relations between the two countries, include one authorising the appointment of Consuls. There are also articles for the protection of rights in Inventions, trade marks and designs, and for the prevention of false trade marks and descriptions.