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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 1 (May 1, 1933)

Empire Tariffs

Empire Tariffs.

And this remark recalls to mind the fact that British Empire tariff policy is being rapidly built up—an event which is in itself an epoch, but which in sensation (though not in importance) is overshadowed by German sabres and Moscow chains. Following on Ottawa, Britain has tariff negotiations with Argentina, Denmark, and many other foreign countries. Intra-Empire and extra-Empire trade is to be placed under a new charter built up of commercial conventions and treaties. An American departure from high tariffs and a British departure from free trade combine to make an economic revolution, but there are so many more melodramatic revolutions in being that the tariff-makers are hardly noticed. Among them are the Governments of New Zealand and Australia, anxious to escape from mutual embargoes in the prosaic field of vegetables and fruits.