§ MR. WHITWELLasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any and what Commercial Treaties are in progress by which British productions and manufactures will be admitted on satisfactory terms into the states made independent, or newly constituted, in what was recently European Turkey; and, whether the eight per cent Import Duty said to be charged on goods imported into Cyprus will be charged on British goods?
§ MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, that no Commercial Treaties were being nego- 953 tiated with the States to which the Question of the hon. Gentleman related—unless Roumania were referred to. A Treaty with that country was, as he had previously stated, in process of negotiation. The commercial relations with the other States were regulated by the Berlin Treaty, and those with Servia were prescribed by a clause in that Treaty. As regarded Cyprus, things remained as they were.