§ Mr. FELLasked if there were any import and export duties levied in British East Africa; if so, whether they were the same or higher or lower than those levied in German East Africa; and if there was any preference given to goods imported from the Mother Country in either case?
§ Colonel SEELYThere are both import and export duties levied in the East Africa Protectorate. It is impossible within the limits of a question and answer to give a complete list of these duties or to compare them with those levied in German East Africa; but the hon. Gentleman will find full information with regard to the tariffs of both places in the "International Customs Journal," published by the International Customs Tariff Bureau at Brussels, copies of which I shall be glad to place at his disposal. The General Act of the Conference held at Berlin in 1885, to which both Great Britain and Germany are parties, precludes any preference being given to goods imported from the Mother Country in either case.
§ Colonel SEELYThe hon. Gentleman will see all that from the book with which I will furnish him. From the last part of the reply he will see that we cannot get a preference, nor can Germany.