§ MR. CLAUDE LOWTHER (Cumberland, Eskdale)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can say whether Holland has decided to reform her fiscal system, by the adoption of a retaliatory policy and a protective tariff; and, if so, whether he can lay upon the Table of the House a copy of the Netherlands Government's proposals; and if he wall state the remaining countries, if any, which impose no duties apart from purposes of revenue.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) Copies of the Netherlands Tariff Bill have been received and forwarded to the Board of Trade for examination in concert with the Chambers of Commerce. Pending the result of the examination, I am not able to make any statement as to the character and objects of the proposed tariff, which has still to receive legislative sanction. We have no official information of the object with which Customs duties are imposed by foreign countries. The question of laying a translation of the proposed tariff upon the Table of the House will be considered.