THE SUGGESTED TARIFF.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 687, 11 December 1909, Page 5

THE SUGGESTED TARIFF.

A CHAMBERLAIN IDEA, MANY MATTERS OF NEGOTIATION. ' (By Telceraph-Proßj Asipolatlon-Copyrljtat.l '. (Roc December 10,10.20 p.m.) ' •'-■': '';,'■■'■ London, December 10. In a speech nt Greet (Shropshire) Mr. Austen Chamberlain, who was Chariootlorof'tho Exchequer in the last Unionist Government, dealt with tho recent tariff reform article in the Birmingham "Post," which forecasted a duty of 2s. a-quarter on foreign com (with a proportion of preference to British possessions), and a triplo classification of now general duties, as follows: Goods'upon which little labour has boon expended prior to their importation, 5 per cent, j goods which are. imported iu a nearly finished state, 10 per cent,) goods imported in a completely . manufactured state, 15 per cent.; raw material to.be excluded from taxation. "In each of these '. throe rates of duty (added the.'Tost"), thero will be three scales, i The maximum scale . will remain in abeyance for two years in order to . givo time for friendly negotiations With foreign Powers as to mutual tariff arrangements. It is estimated that a general tariff on those lines would produce a rovenue of between sixteen and twenty millions por annum."'. Mr. Chamberlain said that the artiole in tho Birmingham "Post" developed what .in 1 his opinion wero the main lines of. tariff reform. The details must be a matter for. the Government's examination. There were many mattors of negotiation with • our kinsmen across tho seas, and, later, with foreign Powers. ". OLD AGE PENSIONS AND TARIFF REFORM, WOULD THE REVENUE BE SUFFICIENT? , ,;■-." ' London, December 9. Mr. Lord Advocate for Scotland, again declares that tho man .who votes ..for Tariff Reform /votes for discontinuation' of old age pensions, inasmuch as the.tariff would bo inadequate.' : j:' . ■■■-''■■