CANADIAN TRADE
REDUCED DUTIES
BRITAIN'S THANKS
(British' Official Wireless.) (Received April 28, IL3O' a.m.)
RUGBY, April' 27.
A resolution amending the Ottawa Agreements Act for the purpose of giving effect to the new Canadian trade agreement was approved by the House of Commons by 265 votes to 126 after certain features of the agreement had been criticised by Labour and Liberal speakers on the ground that it was inopportune, at a time when trade negotiations might be impending to diminish the elasticity of the tariff position.
• The President of the Board of Trade recommended the agreement ■as part of the Government's general policy of reducing trade barriers. The duty reductions covered about 40 per cent, of the British trade.with Canada, lie thanked .the Canadian. Government for having met the, British Government most generously. The agreement would increase Imperial trade without increasing a single duty on foreign goods on either side. '.- . ":...' ■; ■ ; /
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 11
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150CANADIAN TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1937, Page 11
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