§ Lieut-Colonel HENEAGEasked the President of the Board of Trade if there are any treaties or agreements which prohibit the importation of potatoes, flour, and malting barley under licence?
§ Mr. HACKINGBy virtue of the Anglo German Commercial Treaty and the Protocol thereto, both countries are precluded from imposing any new prohibitions, except prohibitions instituted for one of the purposes specifically recognised by the Treaty as legitimate, as, for example, prohibitions on sanitary grounds. Moreover, a general convention which has recently been concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations, and which, though not yet in force, has been signed on behalf of H.M. Government, would equally preclude the imposition of such prohibitions as those referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend.