TARIFF REFORMS
“DOWN 'WITH BARRIERS”
BRITAIN’S PLEA TO NATIONS HER VOICE IN THE LEAGUE DEFINITE SUPPORT WANTED [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Sept. 14, 6 p.m. GENEVA, Sept. 13. Mr Wm. Graham addressing the League Assembly announced that Britain would ratify the tariff Truce-Conven-tion. He urged that all signatories should ratify the convention in order that preparations for the forthcoming conference to negotiate for the reduction of duties and promote freer trade generally might proceed without delay. Graham declared unless sufficient nations ratified it by January 4, 1931 Britain would hold herself free to act any way she desired. “It seems that little hope of a general tariff, reduction at present,” he said, ‘ ‘ but it might bo advantageous to concentrate on certain commodities such as textiles and machinery in order to sec how far we could get in progressive tariff reduction. Increased tariffs might temporarily stimulate industries, but the cumulative defect of such a course must seriously delay Europe’s restoration- Permanent solution of economic difficulties lay in the abolition of tariff carriers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 371, 15 September 1930, Page 7
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