Mr. JARDINEasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the following Section has been incorporated in a Bill to increase revenue, which was approved by the House of Representatives of the United States of America on the 8th of September last, namely, That it shall be unlawful for any person (the term person as used in this title includes partnerships, corporations, and associations) importing or assisting in importing any articles from any foreign country into the United States, commonly and systematically to import, sell, or cause to be imported or sold, such articles within the United States at a price substantially less than the actual market value or wholesale price of such articles, at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country of their production, or of other foreign countries to which they are commonly exported, after adding to such market value or wholesale price, freight, duty, and other charges and expenses necessarily incident to the importation and sale thereof in the United States: Provided that such act or acts be done with the intent of destroying or injuring an industry in the United States, or of preventing the establishment of an industry in the United States, or of restraining or monopolising any part of 626W trade and commerce in such articles in the United States; and whether his Department contemplates the establishment of similar safeguards to secure Home manufacturers against the competition of dumped goods?
Mr. RUNCIMANThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. A notice on the subject was published on page 126 of the "Board of Trade Journal" for 12th October last. The question of policy raised in the last part of the question is one which will no doubt be dealt with by the Committee which has been appointed to consider the commercial and industrial policy to be adopted after the War.