CANADA AND GERMANY.
COMMERCIAL . TREATY BEING
NEGOTIATED.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
London, May 9. The Daily Mail F says the Canadian Minister for Finance (Mr. Fielding) is leaving Ottawa for Europe to 'negotiate with Germany a new intermediate tariff. It, adds that if Germany grants Canada the concessions which England has refused "to give, the preference to. British goods as against German will fall from 50 per cent, to 10 per cent.
; The preference given to British goods is 33 per cent, off its minimum tariff, audi German good's at present pay the duties on. Canada's maximum schedule, hence the reference to a fall from 50 per cent, to 10 per cent. Since the preference tariff came into force in Canada there has been a great fallling off in Germany's trade ' with the : Dominion. '■'■'■■'■:'.. ;"'' i"'' '''' ■ *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13485, 11 May 1907, Page 5
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