§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the United States Government have notified that the new customs regulations made under the commercial agreement with Germany are to apply to all foreign countries so far as United States ports are concerned; and whether the evidence of British Chambers of Commerce as to the value of exported commodities will be accepted by the United States Customs officials equally with the evidence of German Chambers of Commerce.
§ Mr. RUNCIMANInformal assurances have been given that the same administrative regulations made under the commercial agreement with Germany shall apply to all foreign countries, and that power to give certificates of value allowed to German Chambers of Commerce will be allowed to any bodies which may receive official authority to grant similar certificates. My right hon. friend is consulting the Board of Trade as to making arrangements in this country to fulfil the conditions required.