§ 60. Sir J. BUTCHERasked the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the names of the foreign countries in which British commercial travellers have to pay high fees for permission to enter and transact business, while the commercial travellers from those countries pay nothing on entering this country; and whether, in the case of any, and, if so, which, of these foreign countries we are prohibited by treaty engagements containing a most-favoured-nation Clause from imposing similar fees on their commercial travellers to those exacted in those countries from British commercial travellers?
§ Sir P. LLOYD-GREAMEI have been asked to reply. As the amount of the fees actually imposed and the mode of their collection vary widely, I think I cannot do better than send my hon. and learned Friend a detailed statement of the actual position, so far as we know it, in the case of those countries where such fees are charged. As regards the last part of the question, there are, I understand, Treaty provisions which would preclude our charging differential fees on the commercial travellers of the following countries named in the statement:
Bolivia, Denmark, France, Honduras, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland.