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Broadly speaking, Canada, Australia and New Zealand called for higher tariff barriers against non-Empire lands, with consequent larger purchases of foods and raw materials by the Mother Country from the dominions, in return for which they stood ready to make larger purchases of manufactured goods from...
Prudently the Irish Free State made no keynote demands, Mr. O'Kelly declaring, "We most earnestly hope that the Conference will be a success, whether or not the people of the Free State can share in the ultimate benefits." Thus he alluded to the tariff war between the Mother Country and the Free State...
...Australian ultimatum in the form of a 5,500-word handout to the Press. Mentioning Argentina, Russia and Denmark by name, fighting Mr. Bruce demanded that the Mother Country cut down her imports of Argentine meat, Danish dairy products and Russian wheat and lumber either by Dipping her tariff or by a quota system forcing buyers in the United Kingdom to import more of these things from the Dominions, especially Australia. Mr. Bruce added a long list of articles (notably meat) on which Australia wants preferential treatment, asserting of course that Australia, if generously treated, will respond no less generously...
There is the U. S.'s sky-high Hawley-Smoot Tariff, to the enactment of which Canada retorted with retaliatory tariffs (TIME, Sept. 29, 1930). Already this mischief, furthered by Depression, has gone so far that U. S. exports to Canada have fallen thus...
...Examination of aspects of general trade and tariff policy and administration affecting Empire trade...