The Archive · 1924

ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE TREATY SIGNED

London, Dec. 2.

The negotiations for the Anglo-German Treaty of Commerce and Navigation were concluded yester-and the Treaty was signed this afternoon at the Foreign Office by Minister non, British Ambassador to " Ger-German Ambassador in Dr. von Schubert. The text of the Treaty will be published on Dexember 5, Dee. 8.

'Manufacturing interests are anti cipating a welcome increase of trade' from the Anglo-German Treaty, which, according to published forecasts, grants Great Britain! the lowest German tariffs on all essential British products, notably. textiles and motors, and gives freedom of opportunity to British services ike shipping, banking and insurance. The last-named is regarded particularly valuable in view of the precarious condition of many German insurance concerns.

In return Germany secures from Britain a promise to repeal all ex-enemy discriminatory legislation, i volving substantial moral and material advantages and, incidentally, mans on British ship; in which con jon some protests are already

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