Zur Entwicklung der Baumwollindustrie in Deutschland

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Identifikator:: 882518925

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-5489

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lochmüller, W.

Title:: Zur Entwicklung der Baumwollindustrie in Deutschland

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 127 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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1474 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII The Conference also asserted the principle of preferential trade. They recognized that free trade between the Mother Country and the British Dominions beyond the seas was not practicable at the present moment, but that the Colonies should grant preference to the Mother Country, and that His Majesty’s Government should be urged to consider the expediency of granting preferential treatment to the products and the manufactures of the Colonies. Canada undertook to continue its preference of 334 per cent. and to increase it ] New Zealand promised a preference of 10 per cent. ; the Cape and Natal a general preference of 25 per cent., and Australia an undefined general preference. On the same principle it was agreed that it was desirable that in Government contracts, whether Colonial or Imperial, the products of the Empire should be preferred to those of foreign countries. The attention of the Governments was to be called to the navigation laws of the Empire and in other countries, and to the advisability of refusing the privileges of coastwise trade, including in that term trade between the United Kingdom and the Colonies and between one Colony and another, to countries in which the corresponding trade was confined to national vessels, and it was also recommended that it should be considered whether any other steps should be taken to promote Imperial trade in British vessels, The other recommendations were of a minor character, in favour of the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures, the mutual protection of patents, the right of purchasing cables, and the establishment of cheap postage on newspapers and periodicals 2 * These promises were made good in the next tariff legislation of all these Colonies. Cf. Jebh, Colonial Nationalism, pp. 214-40; Parl, Pap., Cd. 2326; H. C. 310, 1903 (Canada) ; Cd. 1599, 1640 (1903): 2077 (1906). For an analysis of the preferences and full details, see Cd. 3524, pp- 317 seq. ? Carried into effect by an arrangement with Canada in 1906 (Ewart, Kingdom of Canada, pn. 289-97), since extended to Newfoundland.

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