BRITISH TARIFF BILL
MEANS OF RETALIATION
RESULT ANTICIPATED
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received 17th February, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 16th February.
During the debate on the second reading of the Import Duties Bill in the House of Commons this evening, Sir Robert Home (C.) welcomed' the face that it provided a means of retaliation against any country -which discriminated against Britain, and said that the Bill would bring freer trade than this country'had enjoyed for the last two.generations. It was a basis on which could be built' a scientific system which would be formed by the proposed Advisory Committee. Dealing with a list of exempted goods, he suggested that a fair criterion to apply would be that if Britain and the Empire, together or separately, did not produce enough to supply the needs of British manufacturers, then, prima facie at least, the commodity concerned should be exempt from duty.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1932, Page 7
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