The Archive · 1935

Closer Compact Recommended

Hongkong, Apr. 18.

The avoidance of a radical reorisentation of the Government's econo mu polley was recommended by the (Committee, which issued. its report rs following eight months of investiga.

The Commission admits that China's tariffs have greatly injured trade in the Colony, and suggests th establishment of a manufactur-In ig zone by Hongkong Interests in-Jside the Chinese tariff zone on the inland of the Colony.

It also suggests a closer economic Jcompact with China, especially with

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