TRADE AGREEMENT

Evening Star, Issue 22229, 6 January 1936, Page 6

TRADE AGREEMENT

YUGOSLAVIA AND BRITAIN RESULT OP SANCTIONS ON ITALY, (British Official Wireless.) Proas Association —By Telegraph—Copyrlgh| RUGBY, January 4. (Received January 6, at noon.) The Yugoslav cabinet is reported, to have approved the results of the negotiations recently concluded with Bri. tain during the visit to London in Non vember of M. Rilja, the head of the Foreign Trade Department of , the Yugoslav Ministry of Commerce, and embodied, in a declaration of unilateral concessions by Britain in favour ol Yugoslav farm The tion which weighed with the British Government in granting these escepi tional concessions in accordance with the mutual support undertaking coni tained in article 16, paragraph 3 oi the Covenant of the League, was the fact that Yugoslavia had suffered pan ticular hardship in carrying out her part in collective action in imposing economic sanctions on Italy, which normally represents her best market; The concessions granted by Britain in this agreement are unilateral. They provide for added facilities for the marketing of Yugoslav farm produce in Britain and include, firstly, bacons an additional allowance of 400 cwf per week; secondly, eggs: free, entry, limited to an allowance at the rate of 200,000 cwt per annum; thirdly, turkeys (dead): a reduction of duty from 3d to Id per lb limited to a quan. tity of 60,000 cwt per annum; fourthly, chickens (dead): a reduction of duty from 3d to Id per lb limited to an allowance at the rate of 20,000 cwt pe* annum.