§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEasked the President of the Board of Trade the countries which have ratified the Convention for the Abolition of Prohibitions and Restrictions on Imports and Exports, distinguishing between conditional and unconditional ratifications and giving, in the former case, the nature of the conditions?
§ Mr. W. R. SMITHThe answer is as follows:
STATEMENT of the Ratifications of the International Convention for the Abolition of Prohibitions and Restrictions on Imports and Exports showing the extent to which these were made conditional on ratification by other countries.
A.—Conditional Ratifications.
Ratification conditional on ratification by the named countries.
Austria: Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia.
Belgium: Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia.
Denmark: Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia.
France: Germany, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia.
Germany: Austria, the United States of America, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Japan.
Hungary: Austria, Italy, Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia.
445WItaly: Germany, the United States of America, Austria, Great Britain, France, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia.
Luxemburg: Germany, France, Great Britain, Poland, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia.
Roumania: Austria, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia.
Switzerland: Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia.
Yugoslavia: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Roumania, Czechoslovakia.
NOTE.—Denmark has now, it is understood, voluntarily withdrawn the conditions attaching to her ratification, and agreed to be bound under the same conditions as Great Britain.
B.—Unconditional Ratifications.
The United States of America, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden.
NOTE.—Of the above-named countries, Finland and Sweden did not sign the Protocol concluded at Paris on the 20th December, 1929, regarding the bringing into force of the Convention, and consequently are not now bound by the Convention, which is accordingly in force only between the remaining countries which ratified unconditionally, with the addition of Denmark.