Recent Years' Progress Likely to Continue: Trade]
Pacts to Develop Overseas Markets in Great Britain. was painted by Mr.
'A rosy plelure of trade conditions London, July, 18
Wolter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, in Jongihy review of the trade position In the House of Gommons to-day.
Barring further major developments abroad and assuming g continuance fof industrial peace In Great Britain, the declared, there was every reason to hope that the past few years! pro-tess would. continue, Britain's commercial policy, he said, remained unchanged. It was founded on equality of opportunity. for all batlons, quatlnied only by the duty
Sime general" scheme, Only by a Of others fo lay their part in the Femoval of artifelal restsltions which hampered. multilateral international eae could there be. any hope Festoring. the. turnover of overseas trade which Britain enjoyed before the crisis of 1981, The polley of developing overseas markets by trade agreements, Mr. Tunelman" proceeded. was being! Ssleadlly pursued. But it seemed proable that, for some. time to come, the hopes of British exporters would have to be concentrated mainly continued expansion of trade within the Empire and. with other countries the sterling area, Mr. Runciman then gave a survey of what he described a3 another year of marked progress nail the. prine cipal Industries of the United. King dom, with the exception of coal and colton, Progress, he declared, had been remarkably' good in all indus {ties supplying the home markets. 1 had. bees' slower "in the "export trade, The number of insured per-fons in employment in. Great. Britain in June, excluding agricultural work: rs, was over 440000 more. than. a Year ago, and the number of unem-Dloyed was nearly 300,000 tess.
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