CANADIAN TARIFF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 144, 17 May 1930, Page 3

CANADIAN TARIFF.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S INTEREST. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 14. Hon. W. Graham, president of the Board of Trade, replying to questions in the House of Commons, to-day, said that the Government had learned with groat interest of the tariff changes recently introduced by the Canadian Government. These changes were proposed without any request for reciprocal action on the part of the British Government. It was clear that the new rates, most of which were already in force, represented an important decrease of tho rates under the British preferential tariff on a large range of goods, and increased the measure of preference, but so far as he could judge from the information available tho reduction of duties mainly concerned goods which were not imported to any great extent from Empire countries other than Britain. TRADE AGREEMENT. AUSTRALIA ~AND CANADA. OTTAWA, May 14. The Australian Minister of Trade and Customs, Mr J. E. Fenton, visited Ottawa to interview the Canadian Government with a view to laying the foundations of a trade agreement, which, he stated, would prove acceptable and beneficial to all concerned. Mr Fenton was the guest at a, luncheon on Tuesday of the Governor-Gen-eral, Viscount Willingdon, and Viscountess Willingdon at Rideau Hall, where he met the Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, Mr J. Malcolm.