EGYPT'S TARIFF DUTIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 April 1938, Page 10

EGYPT'S TARIFF DUTIES

LANCASHIRE DEPUTATIONS [BBITISH OFFICIAL WIKELESS] RUGBY, April 27. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Captain D. E. Wallace) received a deputation from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce regarding the recent increases in Egyptian customs duties on cotton yarns and cotton piece goods. The deputation included representatives of spinning, manufacturing, finishing, and exporting interests. It. expressed the grave anxiety felt in Lancashire at the unexpected and severe increases in the Egyptian cotton’duties and urged the Government to make, urgent representations on the matter. Emphasis was laid on the feeling in Lancashire circles that the result of the tariff changes could only have the effect of still further reducing the volume of exports of British textiles to the Egyptian market. The deputation urged the comparative, advantages to Egypt as well as to the Lancashire trade of a quota system. The Minister in reply expressed his complete sympathy with the case laid before him. The British Government, herald, was prepared to make further strong' representations to the Egyptian Government. CABINET CHANGES LONDON, April 27. Tbe Cairo correspondent of “The Times” recently mated that anticipations that the difficulties of the Prime Minister would not end with the General Elections had been abundantly verified, and there was a possibility that, he might be driven to resign. z\ crisis bad arisen from a projected reshuffling of Cabinet, which contained only three Deputies in addition to six Senators. Six of the Ministers were outside of Parliament.