§ SIR R. ASSHETON CROSS (for Lord JOHN MANNERS)asked the President of the Board of Trade, If he will be good enough to give instructions for the preparation of a Memorandum explanatory of the changes made in the new French Tariff in the duties levied on articles of agricultural produce similar to the introduction, explanatory of those levied on goods and manufactures, prefixed to the new French Tariff, No. 253?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAINSir, the introduction that has been attached as a preface to the comparative Return of French Customs duties in the new Tariff was intended to show the principal changes in the duties on articles of British produce and manufacture which are exported to France in any quantity; and there being no such articles of agricultural produce imported into France from this country, agricultural products were not mentioned. A supplementary statement showing the changes in these duties could be prepared; but, as all the figures are given in the body of the Return, it would seem hardly desirable to do so.