BAR TO EMPIRE TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 9

BAR TO EMPIRE TRADE

OUTCRY IN BRITAIN

GOVERNMENT ASKED TO ACT

(A.P.A. and "Sun.") (Eeceived 30th April, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, 29th ApriL

The annual meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce passed resolutions deploring existing tariffis as barriers to trade within the Empire, and urging the Government to 1 take every practicable step to remove them, A delegate from Nottingham said that, while manufacturers there entirely faToured developing trade relationships in every part of the Empire, they could not do so, if the Dominions placed such restrictive tariffs on British products, particularly hosiery, as effectively to exclude them from the market. "TUT YOUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER. •• A delegate from Leicester said that if new Australian tariffs were imposed thousands of Leicester workers would be idle. The Agent-General for South Australia (Mr. J. L. Price) said that'all the faults were not with the Dominions. A great deal of education as to what the Empire meant was needed in Britain. He did not think that Britain had any complaints to make about Australia and New Zealand. The greatest offenders as regarded tariffs in Australia were people from Britain, who went out and immediately, wanted a tariff to protect their industries. He concluded by saying: "Xou want to put your own house in order."