§ Mr. FOREMANasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can state the effect of the revision by the Peace Treaty of some particulars of the Berlin Treaty of 26th February, 1885, and of the Declaration of Brussels of 2nd July, 1890, upon the position of the British Colonies in Africa?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYThe revision of the Berlin Act and the Brussels Declaration was not provided for in the Treaty of Peace with Germany, but formed the subject of a separate Convention. I would refer the hon. Member to this Convention, the text of which has been laid before Parliament as "Command No. 477." The Convention is at present awaiting ratification. The new Convention, while maintaining the principle of commercial equality in the area concerned, no longer imposes on the various Governments a fixed maximum rate of import duties.