NOT END IN ITSELF

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1931, Page 9

NOT END IN ITSELF

GRAHAM LOOKS AHEAD

(British Official Wirolcss : ) (Received 25th March, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, 24th March.

The President of the Board of Trade, replying in tho House of Commons to a question concerning tlie tariff: truce | and the recent conference at Geneva, I aaid that he repeatedly emphasised that he always regarded the commercial convention not as an end in itself, but | as affording an opportunity for further ] negotiations with a view to securing a reduction in European Customs tar-'i iff. These negotiations would continue. The Government did not minimise the difficulties, but still believed a downward move in tariffs was desirable, and would continue to do everything possible to accomplish it. ACTION ABROAD. Asked which Governments had continued to raise their tariffs after approying the recommendations of tho 1927 Economic Conference to the effect that world economic development was being retarded by tariff walls, Mr. Graham replied that since the conference tariff I increases of substantial importance had been introduced by Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Czecho-Slovakia, .Finland, Prance, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Persia, Poland, and Portugal.