NIGERIAN TRADE
NO IMPERIAL PREFERENCE
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 18. In reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Colonial Secretary (Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore) said that no substantial tariff changes were contemplated in the Nigerian estimates for (he coming financial year. Nor was it proposed to make any change in the system of textile quotas recently introduced. Having regard to the importance, on general grounds, of avoiding fresh interference in the flow of international trade, the Government did not think it desirable that a system of Imperial preference should be introduced into Nigeria at present.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 9
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98NIGERIAN TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 67, 20 March 1937, Page 9
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