§ Mr. JACOBasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the terms of the International Agreements which prevent Kenya, Zanzibar, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast from differentiating in favour of British imports; whether this operates only against Great Britain and Northern Ireland or whether it applies to all parts of the British Empire; what other nations are parties to these agreements; and whether they are equally precluded from having differential tariffs in their own colonies, dependencies, or possessions?
§ Mr. AMERYAs regards Kenya and Zanzibar; the International Agreement is the Convention of 10th September, 1919, presented to Parliament as Cmd. 477, which gives the names of the contracting parties. The provision against differential treatment is absolute. All States which have dependencies in the Conventional Basin of the Congo as defined in the Convention are similarly bound in respect of those dependencies. As regards the Gold Coast and Nigeria; the International Agreement is the 1669W Anglo-French Convention of 14th June, 1898, presented to Parliament as C.9334, under which, in Nigeria and the Gold Coast and Dahomey and the Ivory Coast, non-differential treatment as between British and French goods is provided for.