The Archive · 1901

The New German Tariff

a Berlin, 2nd December. debates of the New Tariff Bill. The Im-German Reichstag has taken up the perial Chancellor, Count Milow, stated in his address, that the bill was an endeavour to compensate the different interests. It has received the consent of the Governments of the allied States, as it meets the requirements of Germany's political economy. Especially it tends to a higher protection of the farming interests and to a furthering of the export industry, which would ive better opportunities to the Gorernment than the present. tariff for the signing of new treaties with other Powers. The Secretary of the Treasury, Baron Thielmann, discussed Inter the neces sity of new commercial treaties.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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