§ MR. SEYMOUR ORMSBY-GORE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what representations have been made by His Majesty's Government to the Austro-Hungarian Government with regard to the proposed increased duties to be levied by those countries on British manufactured machinery.
§ LORD CRANBORNENo representations have been made on the subject. I understand that the proposed new Austro-Hungarian tariff is not likely to be disposed of by the Austrian and Hungarian Parliaments before September at the earliest. The proposed tariff is to form one of the subjects for consideration at a meeting of the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade next week.