§ Mr. NORTON-GRIFFITHSasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will encourage preferential trading between India and our Dominions; and whether the Governments of Canada or Australia have yet approached the Indian Government in the matter?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe Indian tariff being a tariff for revenue purposes only, it would1198W be inconsistent with the principle on which it is framed to grant preferential rates to the produce of any special country. The answer to the second question is in the negative. But the Dominion of Canada and New Zealand have extended to India the preferences granted to the United Kingdom.