London, Nov. 17.
IHE Trade Agreement between Great Britain and America had been concluded and would be signed in Washington today, said Mr. Oliver Stanley, the President of the Board of Trade, amid cheers in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon.
He declared that he was happy to inform the House of this news, and added that copies of the text. would be available at the Vote Office before the House rose late tonight.
In reply to supplementary questions, Mr. Stanley said that most of the Agreement would come into force on January 1, 1939. He also asserted that he understood that an agreement between the United States and Canada was to be signed simultaneously.
—Reuter.
Washington, Nov. 17.
Following the successful conclusion of negotiations, trade agreements between the United States and Great Britain and between the United States and Canada will be signed at the White House today at 3 p.m. (Shanghai time, 4 a.m. Friday).
Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, will sign for the United States, Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Am bassador in Washington, will sign for Great Britain, and Mr. W. L. Mackenzie-King, Canadian Prime Minister, will sign for Canada.
Details of both agreements, which are expected to include hundreds of tariff concessions, will be announced for publication on Friday morning.
The Anglo-American Agreement will be published simultaneously in Washington and London. The British agreement will be accompanied by a Note from the British Government expressing willingness to discuss with the United States the possibility of further tariff reductions on American exports after Britain has been released from some of her obligations under the Ottawa Agreement.
The State Department announces that the agreement with Britain includes Northern Ireland, the Britis Colonies and British. possessions Latin America.
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