§ COLONEL SIR H. VINCENTI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if he will commend to the consideration of the Indian Government the example set on 1st August, 1898, by the Dominion of Canada in the admission of imports from the United Kingdoms and India, or 635 containing 25 per cent, of British labour, at a reduction of one-fourth the duty leviable upon foreign goods?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON, Middlesex, Ealing)In view of the circumstances under which the import duties now in force in India were imposed, and of the relatively small proportion which they bear to the value of the articles imported, I am not prepared to recommend the reduction of them suggested by the honourable Member.