London, Mar. 4.
In the House of Conimons to-day Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, a former President of the Board'of Trade, initiated a debate on the subject of the Tariff Trace Conference, He said that, if the Convention went through, every single one of our competitors could, for the whole period of the Convention, maintain their duties exactly where they had tout exceptions to them in certain circumstances: while this country would be assolutebound not to-put on a duty in any eireamstances, Mr. Graham, the President of the Board of Trade, in reply, said that large part of the attack og the truce had been due to a mistaken motion that it was proposed te establish tariffs for a period of two or three years at their present level. The idea was that there should be an effort to arrest the up-werd movement of tariffs and then have a systematic investigation of proposals that could be made for their reduction. He dealt, at some length, with the proposed' draft of the Convention and admitted it was. not easy to define fiscal duties and that exceptions. were also presenting diffeulties. He could say but little more while the conference was still sitting, he added—Wireless through Reater.
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