at Imperial Conference will consider next week the agreed report by the: Economic Ca-operation Committee, over which the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Graham, presided, upon the' application of the quota system to Empire Wheat.
The object of the quota is to. secure that a guaranteed, and if! possible increasing, proportion of the total quantity of wheat, milled in the United Kingdom shall be of Empire origin.
Mr. Graham's Committee report is the result of the: preliminary examination of the scheme in its technical aspects.
Of the milling wheat and- four' imported into the United Kingdom, about 49 percent. is of Empire origin.
The scheme was examined in the light of 2 quota. for: the whole of; the Empire: The possibility of: special quotas for different parts of the' Empire was ruled out as-administra-_ tively impracticable.
The question-of guaranteed prices! was not raised, the scheme being] examined as a method of occuring for the Empire a guaranteed share! at world prices, The Committee concluded that: if the methods were adopted: there! would: be no insuperable diffienltics! in the way: of working. it—Wireless through Reuter.
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