QUOTAS AND TARIFFS
RESULTS IN BRITAIN STATEMENT BY 'MR BALDWIN ; ■ LONDON, July 21. Mr. Stanley. Baldwin, addressing a National Government demonstration at Halstead, claimed that wheat’, was the most successful of the tariff experiments. It - made wheat growing modestly remunerative. It’hadincreased the acreage and supplied; a loaf only a fraction dearer'than- if the tariff had not been introduced. He' emphasised, : regarding beef, that he wanted to eliminate, as far as possible, perpetual alterations in quotas, causing only' friction with the dominions and those who should be their best trade friends, had, been extraordinarily successful in the manner Tri’which the mutton and Jamb quota restriction .had been possibly because fewer markets were affected, and because those interested adhered to quotas as. being better than other forms ' Nevertheless, they had raised mutton prices substantially in three,-years without -appreciable difference to the consumer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 9
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