Agreement Negotiations Broken off Temporarily Bertin, Nov. 27.
It in semioficially stated that the negotiations between the British and German delegations on questions arising from the Anglo-German Trade Agreement have been provisionally broken off owing to differ_ ences of opinion with regard to interpretation of various points of the protocol, although an understanding] has been reached with regard to application of the respective customs! tariffs The disagreement is related to interpretation of a clause in the protocol of the Anglo-German Commercial Treaty whereby the British Government, pledged itself not to impose duties especially detrimental to Germany. The German delegates claimed that the British customs duties on many German exports, especially musical instruments and should be abrogated er conbly reduced in view of this clause—Reuter.
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