APPENDIX  E.—REPORT  ON  RUSSIAN  AND  AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN  TARIFFS.

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desires  that  representations  may  be  made  to  the  Austro-Hungarian  Government ­
  with  regard  to  this  proposal.
9.  In  conclusion  we  have  to  express  our  opinion  that  the  reports  which
we  have  received  in  answer  to  our  applications,  representative  as  they  are  of
the  views  entertained  by  the  principal  industries  of  the  United  Kingdom,
unite  in  testifying  to  the  injury  inflicted  on  British  commerce  by  the  tariffs
already  imposed  by  Russia  and  Austria-Hungary,  and  we  desire  to  endorse
the  demand  made  by  many  of  the  Chambers  of  Commerce  and  other
representative  industrial  bodies  that  all  possible  means  should  be  adopted
not  only  to  prevent  the  proposed  increases  in  tariff  duties,  but  to  procure
the  reduction  of  those  now  existing.
We  have,  &c.
(Signed)  A.  E.  BATEMAN
(Chairman).
H.  LLEWELLYN  SMITH
(Deputy  Ch  airm  an).
AVEBURY.
F.  BRITTAIN.
T.  CRAIG  BROWN.
WYNDHAM  R.  DUNSTAN.
C.  ALEXANDER  HARRIS,
ALFRED  HICKMAN.
T.  W.  HOLDERNESS.
W.  H.  HOLLAND.
ALGERNON  LAW.
ALBERT  K.  ROLLIT.
STRATHCONA.
Geo,  J.  Stanley
(Secretary).
16  th  December  1903.