Evening star., 1932-08-01
BRITAIN PRESSED
HARD FOR TARIFF
AT OTTAWA PARLEY
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closed the American market TO Cana
dians.
POSSIBLE DEADLOCK SEEN.
British Dissatisfied With Canada's
Offer to Exchange Trade.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OTTAWA, Ontario, August (N.A.
N.A).-Unless Great Britain can COM
pete widely in the industrial markets
Of the empire, what has she to gain
from the Imperial Economic Confer
ence?
The coming week will be one of the
most important of the conference. TAX
ing advantage of the week end, Cana
dian officials put in many hours going
over the Canadian tariff schedules with
a fine tooth comb, considering Kem By
item as they sought to determine which
domestic markets British industrialism
shall be allowed to penetrate. Particu-
lar attention is being paid to the rates
on iron and sseel. textiles, machinery
and electrical goods.
1t is no secret that the British are
dissatisfied with the general offer made
by Canada, and certain OF the other
Dominions, that in return for natural
commodities market in Great Britain,
the Dominions will permit the mother
country to compete with certain ''rea-
sonably efficient" domestic industries.
Great Britain feels that for the trans
action to be valuable to her. she must
have competitive access not only to
the mature and reasonably efficient do
minion industries, but to the weaker
ones as well.
Dissatisfied With List.
Great Britain already has studied the
list Of 1900 opportunities for British
sale in Canada, prepared by the Cana
dian Manufacturers Association, and
the impression has been gained that the
British trade experts do not regard it
as a valuable source of business for the
mother country. The idea seems to
Have gone the rounds that if Great
Britain opens her markets for Canada S
natural commodities in exchange for
the opportunities merely offered by the
8,000item list, Canada will be getting
several times the better of the deal.
Thus, Canada is making further study
to determine just how far Great Britain
may go.
This situation, too, may defeat the
ambition of the leader of the British
delegation, former Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin, for a general lowering
of tariff barriers throughout the empire
and rhe world.
High tarff dominion newspapers see
in this situation a deadlocked confer
ence. The Montreal Stars view is that
Canadian industry must have complete
control of the Canadian market and
British imports encouraged only where
there is no Canadian competition. The
Montreal Gazette, Conservative organ
taking the same line, contemplates
without grief a conference failure.
Flat Failure Unlikely.
A fat failure, of course, is possible
but not probable England, whose tariff
act assessing duties against the rest OF
the world grants the dominions pref
erences until November Is. has a pow
erful weapon in this statute Some
concessions must be made on both sides
or Dominion commodities will pay the
same import duty into England as is
assessed against countries outside the
empire.
In addition, individual Dominion
delegates have been getting together
and series of bilateral trade agree
ments, mutually advantageous is almost
bound to result from their deliberations
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