WOOLLEN INDUSTRIES
THE TARIFF PROBLEM CONFERENCE AT LILLE (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BRUSSELS, December 30. (Received Dec. 30, at 8 p.m.) Representatives of the British, French and Belgian woollen industries met at Lille and agreed to “tariff disarmament,” according to M. Andre Peltzcr, president of the Belgian Textile Federation, who is reported as having said that an agreement had been reached on the basis of reciprocity of fiscal legislation, meaning tariffs equal for all and as low as possible. He added that his countrymen would enthusiastically accept the arrangement. Opinion in Germany and elsewhere had been sounded, and the majority of the countries were favourable. They now had to convince their Governments.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21531, 31 December 1931, Page 8
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