The Board of Trade recently published report on a number of industries which gives some remarkable statistics respecting enemy imports into Great Britain. In the industries dealt with the annual value of enemy imports amounts to upwards of £11,000,000 out of a total of approximately £16,000,000. These figures cover the self-governing Dominions and India, as well as the United Kingdom. The German has been doing uncommonly well out of the free British market, and the official report cites a8 a cause of the ability of German firms to undersell British competitors "the industrial combinations in Germany which, with large home market secured to them by the tariff, were able to produce on " very large scale and dispose of their surplus product abroad at very low prices." In other words, their protective tariff and our open market enabled the Germans to dump their goods to the detriment of the British manufacturer. The Board of Trade Committee recommends that the latter should be afforded "'sufficient protection," and that the Government should take steps to prevent industries being endangered by dumping. Happily there is little doubt that the Government will do this, in cooperation with our Allies.
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