§ 17. Sir FREDRIC WISEasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he contemplates putting a Customs duty on articles imported or consigned to the forces in Iraq?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREA recommendation was made on this subject by the Financial Mission which was presided over by the right hon. Member for Norwich (Mr. Hilton Young), and whose report was published as Command 2438. The matter is under consideration, but no decision has yet been reached.
§ Captain WEDGWOOD BENNIs it possible to have a differential tariff in favour of British goods in a mandated territory?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI could not answer that question off-hand. I think it is certainly impossible if it is a "B" mandated territory. Whether that is equally true of an "A" mandated territory I cannot say.
§ Sir R. HAMILTONHave our forces in any other part of the world the privilege of free imports?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI should require notice of that question.
§ Sir F. WISEWhen is this decision likely to he taken?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREIt is bound up with a good many other questions which are the subject of rather voluminous despatches passing between the High Commissioner at Bagdad and my right hon. Friend dealing with the whole financial and revenue situation of that country.