PROPOSED AFTER-WAR POLICY

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 46, 22 February 1917, Page 7

PROPOSED AFTER-WAR POLICY

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE

PREFERENCE TO TPIE DOMINIONS.

(AUS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTER.) LONDON, 20th February. The Committee on the Commercial Industrial Policy after the war, of which Lord Balfour of Burleigh is- chairman, recommends:— In view of the experience of the war, special steps ought to be taken to stimulate the production, of foodstuffs, raw materials, and manufactures within the Empire wherever expansion of production is possible and economically desirable for the safety knd welfare of the Empire; therefore the Imperial Government should declare adherence to the principle of preference for products and manufactures from the Dominions in respect to any Customs duties now or hereafter imposed on imports to the United Kingdom. Further, the committee is of opinion, that it will be necessary soon to consider as one o£ the methods of achieving .the above objects, the desirability of establishing a wider range of Customs duties, which would be remitted or reduced on products and manufactures within the Empire, and which, would form the basis of commercial treaties with the Allies and neutral countries.