TARIFF CHANGES
CONSIDERED BY CANADIAN CABINET
INCREASE IN BRITISH PREFERENCE
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
Australian Press Assn.—United Service. (Rec. June 19, 10.30 p.m.) Ottawa, June 19. Tariff changes, which will have a revolutionary effect on Canada’s external affairs, are under consideration by the Dominion Cabinet. In response to demands from all parts of the country for action, the Gove iment is taking preliminary steps toward what will undoubtedly be the most drastic revision of fiscal policy in the present century. Present prospects are that vital changes will take ‘ .• form of a material increase in British preference, if not the inauguration of complete free trade on the bulk of British goods, while the general tariff, which applies to imports from the United States, will remain stationary. QUESTION OF REVISION IN AMERICA By Telegraph.—Press Association. (Rec. June 19, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, June IS. The Senate by one vote defeated a resolution offered by Senator Borah under which tariff revision by Congress would be confined to agricultural items.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 226, 20 June 1929, Page 10
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166TARIFF CHANGES Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 226, 20 June 1929, Page 10
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