ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
CANADIAN MEMBERS REPORT. REDUCED TARIFFS FAVOURED. A. and N,Z. OTTAWA, Mircb 5. The report of the Canadian delegates to the Economic Conference held under the auspices of the League of Nations last year has been laid on the tabic of the House of Commons. The chief features are a strong recommendation favouring the greatest possible reduction in the existing international tariff barriers; a resolution against the export of raw materials except for international conservation ; a resolution against all special impediments to international trade, such as subsidies and the imposition of specially high tariffs for bargaining purposes in securing: a reduction in rival tariffs; a recommendation, to facilitate these 4 objects by the negotiation of commercial treaties between different countries which should always .embody conditions granting the most-favoured-nation treatment to all other countries.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 11
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134ECONOMIC CONFERENCE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 11
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