BRITAIN BENEFITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 11

BRITAIN BENEFITS

CANADA’S TARIFF GIVES ADDED PREFERENCE NO RECIPROCITY ASKED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. William Graham, stated in the House of Commons that the Government had learned with great interest of the tariff changes recently introduced by the Canadian Government. These changes were proposed without any request for reciprocal action on the part of the British Government. It was clear that the new rates, most cf which were already in force, represented an important decrease in the rates under the British preferential tariff on a large range of goods and gave an increased measure of preference, but so far as he could judge from the information available the reductions in duties mainly concerned goods which were not imported to any great extent from Empire countries other than Britain. Mr. Graham went on to say that the total chargeable value of the merchandise imported into Britain and registered as consigned from Russia in the first three months of 1929 amounted to £3,166,000, compared with £4,812,000 in the corresponding period of 1930. The total value of exports, including re-exports from Britain, registered as consigned to Russia in the former period amounted to £1,168,000, and in ihe latter period £1,195,000 .