TRADE TREATIES
ARGENTINE AGREEMENT MR. AMERY’S ATTACK THE MINISTER IN REPLY (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 4. During the report stage Mr. L. S. Amery, supported by several Conservatives, attacked the Anglo-German trade agreement. Mr. Amery contended that Mr. Runcinian had cut right across the principle of the Tariff Advisory Committee. It was useless to put industries to the trouble of presenting cases before the committee if the duties recommended were not adhered to. This would make the whole protective system unstable.
Mr. Runciman, in replying, said that the German agreement primarily con cerned the state of the coal trade and he did not wish the Government’s tariff policy to be tested by the German agreement. The decreasing demand for coal had hit Britain harder and harder. There had come a time when we had to protest to Germany against lowering the quota, which was inconsistent with the trade agreement of 1924. The Government might have gone to arbitration, but it chose to negotiate. The present bargain was the best possible. Approval of the agreement was carried by 304 votes to 56.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 105, 6 May 1933, Page 7
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