§ MR. SERJEANT SPINKSasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, What progress, if any, has been made in the negotiations alleged to have been entered into with Roumania for prolongation to the close of the present year of the existing Customs tariff on British goods imported into that country, so as to protect such goods from the onerous and almost prohibitory duties which would be imposed upon them after the 13th of May if no such prolongation be agreed upon?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, I understand that the intelligence has been received to-day that the Roumanian Chambers have authorized the Government to extend for three months the most favoured nation clause to goods imported from countries which have not yet concluded Commercial Treaties with Roumania.