Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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cHAP. vi] TRADE RELATIONS AND CURRENCY 1175 If, therefore, Article VII of the Zollverein Treaty were construed to prevent the Australian Colonies from imposing higher duties upon goods imported from the Zollverein than upon goods imported from each other, it is manifest that Her Majesty would not have exceeded her constitutional powers in agreeing to such a stipulation, and that the Colonies could not refuse to consider themselves bound by it without repudiating the treaty. i Her Majesty’s Government, after a further careful exami- nation of the Zollverein Treaty, remain of opinion that the strict literal interpretation of the Seventh Article of that treaty does not preclude the imposition of differential duties in one British Colony or Possession in favour of the produce of another British Colony or Possession : but they must, at the same time, point out that it could hardly have been intended that, by reciprocal arrangements between Colonies, perhaps far distant from each other, the produce of the Zollverein should be placed at a disadvantage as compared with Colonial produce, whilst Colonial produce should enjoy, in the ports of the Zollverein, all the privileges of the most favoured nation. No doubt the negotiators of the treaty thought that they had obtained sufficient security for the Zollverein, as regards the inter-colonial trade, by the provision that, ‘in the Colonies and Possessions of Her Majesty, the produce of the States of the Zollverein should not be subject to any higher or other import duties than the produce of the United Kingdom ’ ; but if the Colonies are to be at liberty to impose differential duties as against British produce, it is obvious hat this security altogether disappears. Apart, however, from the obligations of existing treaties, it is necessary to consider the effect of the general views expressed by the Australian and New Zealand Governments on the subject of Commercial Treaties. It is easy to understand the claim asserted in the second of the resolutions to which the Victorian delegates were parties, that no treaty entered into by the Imperial Govern- ment with any foreign Power should in any way limit or impede the exercise of the right of the Australian Colonies to enter into reciprocal tariff arrangements with each other ; but it is not at first sight so clear what is meant by the state- ment in the other set of resolutions that no treaty can be properly or constitutionally made, which directly or indirectly treats those Colonies as foreign communities. Tt scems inconsistent to object to stipulations which treat

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