GERMANY AND BRITAIN.
TRADE TREATY QUESTION.
COMPLAINTS OF INEQUALITY. Times. LONDON. March 7. The Berlin correspondent of the Times reports that the Minister of Economic Affairs, Ilert Curtius, said Germany would renounce the Anglo-German trade treaty at the earliest possible date with a view to securing a fresh basis for trade. The Minister said he agreed with the deputies who had criticised the British attitude.
The correspondent explains that Herr Curtius was referring to the increase in the British safeguarding duties, and the extension of the merchandise marks regulations since the treaty was negotiated in. 1924, when Britain was virtually a free-trade country. Germans now complain that they granted Britain most-favoured-nation treatment for nothing, and declare that their complaints have been useless. The treaty cannot be renounced until 1929.
A cablegram published yesterday said Eerr Curtius had announced in the Reichstag that ho had cancelled the trade agreement with Britain, with the object of renewing it on a different 'basis,.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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