TARIFF PROBLEMS
PROMINENT FREETRADER'S SUGGESTION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* LONDON, December 9. (Received December 10, at 1 p.m.) Mr William Graham (President of tha Board of Trade in the Labour Government), speaking at Birbeck College, expressed the opinion that the appointment of a small, businesslike tariff commission would be advantageous in order systematically to analyse the effects ofi the tariff proposals on the aggregate volume of British trade and intermediate industries as consumers of imported semi-manufactured goods, also Britain’s place in foreign as distinct from Empire markets. As a freetrader he believed that if tariffs were to coma they should be on broad and comprehensive lines.
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Evening Star, Issue 20972, 10 December 1931, Page 10
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105TARIFF PROBLEMS Evening Star, Issue 20972, 10 December 1931, Page 10
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