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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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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Collection:: Economics Books

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

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cuap. vi] TRADE RELATIONS AND CURRENCY 1177 is not to be supposed that the people of this country would, in deference to the views of the Colonies, depart from the principles of free trade, under which the trade and commerce of the Empire has attained to such unexampled prosperity. The New Zealand Government seem not to have perceived the difference in principle between the formation of a Customs union and the conclusion of reciprocity agreements. Customs unions, which have hitherto, as far as I am aware, never been formed except between neighbouring communities, have for their object the removal of the barriers to trade created by artificial boundaries, and the establishment of a cheaper and more convenient mode of collecting the Customs revenue of the united countries. But the formation of such a union does not, in itself, involve any question of protection to native industry, nor of inequality of treatment of imports from countries not belonging to the union. On the other hand, such reciprocity arrangements as the Colonies desire to conclude, are not confined to the promotion of free inter- course between each other, but are intended to secure for the trade of the respective Colonies special advantages, as against imports from other places, in return for corresponding concessions. It is no doubt true, as the New Zealand Memorandum points out, that reciprocity agreements might somewhat mitigate the evils of the ‘retaliatory tariffs of a protectivecharacter which have grown up’ in the Australasian Colonies. But, although they might avert the ruinous policy of retaliation, they would also tend to perpetuate and strengthen the system of protection, and to aggravate in other quarters the very evils which as between the favoured Colonies they would professedly diminish. A Customs union, while it would incidentally secure im- portant advantages to native industry, by the removal of all obstacles to internal trade, would do so without estab- lishing the principle of differential duties. The Colonies forming the union might, no doubt, pursue a Protectionist policy, and as Her Majesty's Government have ceased to interfere with the right of the self-governing Colonies individually, as claimed in the Memorandum signed by the New South Wales, Tasmanian, and South Australian delegates, ‘ to impose such duties on imports from other places not being differential as each Colony may think fit,” they would have no reason for interfering with the right of a Colonial Customs Union to impose such duties; but there would be nothing in the union itself, as there would be in the proposed reciprocity agreements, inconsistent with

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