Mr. JENKINSasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the determination expressed by His Majesty's representative at the League of Nations Assembly to relax progressively the system of quota restrictions on trade referred to quota restrictions on imports into the territories concerned; and whether any steps are envisaged by His Majesty's Government to relax such restrictions in the Colonies?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREI would invite reference to the statement made on the 15th December by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Agriculture in reply to a question asked by the hon. and gallant Member for Barkston Ash (Colonel Ropner). In the course of a speech delivered in the second committee of the League on the 5th October last, my right hon. Friend said
We see no reason why quotas should be maintained as against countries with free exchanges if the reasons for adopting the quota system have disappeared.That is the policy of His Majesty's Government in relation to such quotas as exist in the Colonial Empire.