PREFERENTIAL TARIFF.
Telegraph. Pre«B Association Copyright Melbourne, This Day. With reference to the London movement in favour of preferential treatment of colonial products, Mr Barton said it unquestionably would have a good effect on our growers, but he cannot say, until he has consulted his colleagues, whether Australia was prepared to enter into a full and comprehensive preferential agreement. The whole subject will be considered at the London Con-
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Mr Eeid says, to ask Britain to give us concessions while imposing large taxation and showing no preference to British manufacturers, is sheer impudence. He is not averse to reciprocal trade relations. Speaking on the wider question of imposing duties, he said if Britain abandons the open door policy, it closes the free avenues of trade against the world, and sacrifice one of her strongest bulwarks.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1412, 17 April 1902, Page 2
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