§ 9. Mr. PENNEFATHERasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what Treaties or arrangements which confer most-favoured-nation rights upon other countries are still in force, and also if any such treaties have been denounced; and, if so, when?
Mr. D. WARDThe greater part of the information required by the hon. Member will be found in the "Return of Most-favoured-nation Clauses in Existing Treaties of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Foreign Powers," which was laid before Parliament as Cd. 3395, Commercial No. 3 (1907).
Since the date of that Return, commercial Treaties containing most-favoured-nation Clauses have been concluded with Bolivia, Honduras, Japan, Portugal and Serbia. The former commercial Treaties with enemy Powers have lapsed owing to the War, and those with the Congo Free State and Corea have disappeared upon the annexation of those countries. The Treaties with Russia, Salvador and Uruguay have terminated upon denunciation, and the Treaties with France and Greece have been denouncd, but remain operative subject to three months' notice of denunciation on either side.