§ MR. BLACKI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether, seeing that this country under the present fiscal system has for over fifty years enjoyed uninterrupted most-favoured-nation treatment from every other country, he has any information as to how far the imposition of import duties on the goods of other countries will affect this position and the general trade of this country.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThere is hardly any information, historical or statistical, relating to commerce which may not conceivably be regarded as having a possible bearing upon one or other of the problems referred to in this Question.