A TREATY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1924, Page 5

A TREATY

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT. DOMINIONS AFFECTED!' : ! hi JY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. rru ; c . LONDON, Dec. 4. Ihe text of the Anglo-German'- (iomTreaty has been published. c : lhe treaty is to remain'm fqfctie for hve years, and replaces .with nibSificntions the treaty passed in ld/8. !>!lt 'secures .for British, subjects , anti coin panies national treatment ip Germany in respect to taxation and hipping, except, possibly, the coasting fra tie. As the basis of the treaty is the niWt favoured nation treatment, legislation must be passed in Britain removing the wartime disability on German citizens and companies in resnect to. their engaging in the conferroirif metaj, industries and banking, in - >the ; United Kingdom, and the employment of Oei - man seamen in British ships. The great mass of prohibitions on the importation of goods Into ‘ Germany, which impeded British trade v. lth that country, wilLbe swept away . The un st favoured nation clause . will be interpreted in the most liberal manner.. Both parties . agree' to abstain from using their respective tariffs as means of discrimination. Both adopt the provisions of interactional conventibiis relating to .trade and shipping coii r eluded under the auspices of! the League of Nations, notably at Barcelona and Geneva. The treaty applies only to the United Kingdom, but the right to adhere to the treaty is accorded the Dominions, Tndia,, the colonies, protectorates and British mandated territories,, whose goods shall enjoy the most favoured nation treatnfent in Germany, but the German Government is empowered to withdraw this privilege in •espect to anv part of the Empire which has not adhered to the Treaty before September, 1, 1926.