THE JAPANESE TARIFF
LONDON, May 26. Mr Wilcox, secretary of the China 'Association, in a letter to The Times (-which The Times describes as important and convincing), shows that the new Japanese tariff will be a serious blow to British trade. The rates on many articles have been doubled and several trebled, and the large majority of those articles are chiefly imported from Britain. The increased rates, when enforced, will compel many British firms trading in Japan to abandon business there. Mr Wilcox quotes Count Kcmura's speech, published in the Japan Mail of 31st January, as follows:—"England, being a perfectly Freetrade country, has no means of purchasing tariff concessions like other nations." May 28. The Huddarsfield Chamber of Commerce has decided to urge the Government to strive to induce Japan to reduce the proposed tariff on woollen, worsted, and cotton goods. Some of the duties are equal to 400 per cent, on the value.
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Otago Witness, 1 June 1910, Page 31
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