TARIFF BARRIERS
ALLEGED BRAKE ON EMPIRE TRADE. SUGGESTION VIGOROUSLY COUNTERED. (PrcM Association—By Telegraph- -Copyright.) LONDON, April 29. At the annual meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce resolutions were passed deploring the existing tariff barriers to trade within the Empire, and urging the Government to take every practicable stop to remove them. . , ~ , A delegate from Nottingham said that while the manufacturers there entirely fat-cured developing trade relations with every part of the Empire, they could not do so if the dominions placed such restrictive tarffs on British products—particularly on hosiery—as effectively to exclude them from the market. A delegate from Leicester said that if the new Australian tariffs were imposed thousands of Leicester workers would be idle. The Agent-General for South Australia tMr J. L. Price) said that all the faults were not with the dominions. A great deal of education as to what the Empire meant was needed in Britain. He did not think Britain had any complaints to make about Australia and New Zealand. The greatest offenders as regards tariffs in Australia and New Zealand were people from Britain who went out, and immediately wanted a tariff to protect their industries. He concluded: “You want to put your own house in order.”— Argus and Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20087, 2 May 1927, Page 9
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