§ SIR F. BANBURY (City of London)To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the French Government propose to increase the import duties on elastic tissues; and, if so, what steps His Majesty's Government propose to take to protect British interests.
(Answered by Sir Edward Grey). My right hon. friend does not know whether the French Government propose to increase the import duties in question, as no official publication has yet been made of any of the proposals put forward by the Customs Commission of the French Chamber of Deputies, which is now engaged in studying the revision of the existing French Customs tariff.