The Archive · 1910

The Japanese Tariff

The following Gazette":-—Th astonished at the evident lethargy in bossiness circles of this country in reference to the tariff question. Jepan proposes to recover ber tariff autonomy in the coming treaty, and to emancipate herself from the one-sided obligations on Oc- onder which se bad teen piseed so long. tober 31, 1910, of Tls. 78,407.42, as The objections of the British merchants to the ow tariff have, however, been 8 Tis, strongly emphasized that their Govern-To pay Dividend on Prement was forced to accept their ideas ference Shares at rate of and to represent them to the Japanese 7 per cent per 9,493.14] Government, But their interests are To touched only by a small part of the' 4 per entire tariff law, while with the Japanese diary To carry forward to New 60,000.00 business world their interests are affected by the entire tariff. They shoald be Account veees 8914.28] aware of the indignity the whole nation will suffer, if it cannot have its own 78,407.42 in the regulation of its own tariff, Yet,

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