Synopsis Of The Tariffs And Trade Of The British Empire

Excerpt from Sequel to Synopsis of the Tariffs and Trade of the British Empire: Prepared, and Presented to the Commercial Committee of the Imperial Federation League P.s. - The delay which has occurred in the publication of this volume has afforded an opportunity, within ten days of the close of the year; of adding the chief results of an examination of the trade of the year, 1888, compared with those for 1887, and of thus demonstrating the usefulness of the method sug gested by the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Trade Relations of the British Empire Rather more than five years ago I published the first edition of Tariff and Trade. At that time the subject of a customs union between the United Kingdom and the British possessions in all parts of the world was attracting some amount of attention, though the ideas and suggestions regarding it were extremely vague. A single chapter of that book proved sufficient to exhaust what was then to be said the Canadian preferential tariff had just come into operation, and everybody interested in the question naturally looked to it for a lead in the framing of a more far-reaching imperial tariff policy. Much has happened since, and what has come to be known as the imperial idea was for a time at least rampant. With the enormous financial outlays it has involved throughout the British Empire these pages have nothing to do, beyond the trend given to fiscal policy adopted for the purpose of meeting them; for although the additions to the tariff of the United Kingdom have been made to exclude everything in the nature of protection, the hope is not concealed that they may eventually be utilised to that end. The corn tax more especially afforded dangerous facilities in this direction, not only as regards the home grower, but for the possible concession of some preference to the colonial one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.