HC Deb 18 July 1939 vol 350 c203W
Mr. Sorensen

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he has considered, or will consider, the desirability of revising the Ottawa Agreements in consultation with the Dominions with a view to stimulating world trade and the negotiating of freer trading agreements with countries prepared to join?

Mr. Stanley

It is the policy of His Majesty's Government to take whatever action is open to them to co-operate in the removal of undue barriers to inter national trade. The Ottawa Agreements of 1932 were negotiated in this spirit and certain revisions of them, including those made to give effect to the Anglo-American Trade Agreement of last year, afford a practical illustration of this policy.