TARIFF BARRIERS.
EXAMINATION OF PROBLEM. vßritish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 16. Mr William Graham, President of the Board of Trade, in an address at Oxford, stated that the world Economic Conference of 1927 had definitely recommended freer trade and progressive reduction of tariff barriers, but for various reasons the intervening two years had been unproductive of results. At this stage in economics the United States of Europe was probably mainly an ideal, but there might be much practical progress if European countries and others agreed for two years at least not to raise the existing tariffs and bent their energies to such an examination of the problem as might bring a reduction either in specific commodities or in groups of commodities in the near future. Side by side with such an inquiry, added Mr Graham, ran proposals to secure an international agreement in hours, wages and working conditions in commodities like coal, iron and steel. Europe was appreciating that it would be better to organise the service of markets in terms of industrial efficiency and common fairplay. This would be materially assisted by the best use of existing resources within individual countries.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19290917.2.83
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
192TARIFF BARRIERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in