Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-03
BRITAIN MAY CHANCE
 TRADITIONAL STAND
 ON FREE TRADE SOON
Report of Government Com mittee on Commercial h. telligence to Board of Trade Pressages Such Action.

LONDON, Feb. 25.-(Correspond- ence of The Associated Press IS Great Britain to change it's traditional attitude of Free Trade for a policy of protection as a result of the war?
 The possibility becomes more of probability with the report, just issued, of the government Committee on com mercial Intelligence, consisting of bus mess men who are advisors to the Board of Trade. which was appointed to consider measures for securing the position after the war, of certain of the branches of the British industries"
 The three chief recommendations of the committee are:
 Tariff protection for manufacturers of certain articles.
 Widely spread, reasonable import duties.
 The establishment of Ministry of Commerce.
 The body of the report consists of a summary, with comments, of the var ious suggestions made to the commit tee by representative firms and trade associations interested in the trades covered by the inquiry, most of these suggestions being embodied in more or less modified forms in the recommen- dations of the committee. All other proposals, however, the Committee says, were regarded as of secondary importance in comparison with the { question of tariff protection after the cessation of the far. Practically all the representative firms and asso- citations consulted asked for a meas ure of protection.
 Summarizing reasons given for this request, the report says. There is a general fear that, immediately after the war this country will be flooded with German and Austro-Hungarian goods, sold at almost any price, and that the competition in price, which was going on before the war will be accentuated, with resultant serious diff ficulty to all manufacturers of goods of kinds exposed to this competition and positive disaster to those manE- lecturers who have been encouraged to exted their operations, or engage in new branches of the industry, with view to capturing trade hitherto carried on by enemy countries. The committee gives without con- ment the following approximate indi- cations of the amount of protection i which the witnesses thought neces- sary, in each of the different branches of industry dealt with in their in quiry:
 Paper manufactures-12 per cent. ad valorem. Printed matter 33 1-3. Silversmiths wares-15. Cutlery-10-2O. Fancy Leather Goods-33 I-3. Glass:
 Table and lighting glass-Total pro hibition of German glass for 3-5 years; then B l3 per cent ad valorem. Optical and chemical glass-25-30 per cent for five years. Common glass fares-1O-15 per cent.
 Glass bOttles-5 per cent. China and earthen ware-2O. Toys-25-30.
 Mechanical toys-Absolute prohibi- tion.
 Brushes-15 per cent. ! Magnctos - 33 l-3. Among the other recommendations of the report which covers a wide field arc
 Larger grants for scientific research and training. 1 Copyright law to be brought into line with that Of the United States. Efforts to secure uniform patent | laws throughout Empire Preferential treatment for British contractors and manufacturers in pub ' lie works carried out by foreign coun- 1 tries by means of British loans. Banks to give greater assistance 10
 British industries.