ANGLO=FRENCH TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7

ANGLO=FRENCH TRADE.

TREATY NEGfIiyiATIONS. BY TELEGRAPH —rBESS ASSOCIATION—^COrYMGITr . 5?-:.r.re-.s'.t?- • • >LiWKl<m,-May,.17.,-j. Router's Paris correspondent'feports that the French Gbvernmtjlit'.^aiid:'Sir Edward Grey have commenced a preliminary discussion with regard to _ arranging an AngloFrench commercial treaty; ■ BIG DECLINE iN -'ifiPrfsj^.EXP^RJS^* Sir Albert liollittj who supponi^ "O-C newj' Anglo-French commercial treaty, does ndt dd so on the ground of tariff.reform., t Ho; writes "We have still the'same means of negotiation as Gladstone diid Cobtleii had, u-hilo in' France there is .now, a - stronger force '6f''!ffeetraders. led by''most | able economists, than is generally supposed, and a greater arid growing--sense of the joint value of reciprocity."' A new .French.treaty, he thinks, ."coiild not fail to benefit o'nr staplo In this wo liavo niid the endorsement of the principle of trade tfoaties by Gladstone, Cpbaefi; and Bright; For, to paraphrase the expressidii df & distinguished Frenchman at the Chamber of Commerce of Bordeaux, . commerce Vis peace and peac? is commerce; aiid-the Frehch treaty, of.. ,1800 nearly doubled in ;av decade ..the .volume, and, value of the trade. betweeii 'the -two countries." Sir Albert. Eoilitt gdes pn.-.to;, statij that while tho value of'.French ; exports' to Great Britain is' upwards\of ,£50,000,000, that of Britain ,to France'is so .miich, jiaViiig declined,froriiV2s:s:-,t6.int2.9; per; cent, sihee the dfen"!incia,ti,qji <?£. x the", of commerce. "Franco 'nnd,(England,! are,ine-: cessarily arid essentially.custoipbrs of> each other, .rather than .. since .differences iofri latitude, cliiiiate, seasqris,; products, he'eds, aiid conditions enable them to: supply each other's* wants and to make the commerce of each. the.' complement of the commerce of the-'other'."