Free trade
Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 09 Apr 1910
Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the carrying of the resolution to abolish the financial veto of the House of Lords; [Richard] Haldane's speech on the constitutional reform of the House of Lords; a "really delicious" speech by [Arthur] Balfour concerning his previous statements about the power of the House of Lords regarding financial measures; and the division on Tariff Reform.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1930]
Petition to James Ramsay MacDonald from employers and workers in the lace and embroidery trades of Nottingham and district praying for a continuation of the safeguarding duties. Sent with CHAR 2/173/164-165.
(Untitled), 13 Mar 1930
Comments by WSC on the report of the committee appointed by James Ramsay MacDonald in July 1924 to examine the case for the Safeguarding Duties.
(Untitled), [Mar] [1930]
Newspaper cutting: sympathetic report of the activities of the United Empire Party, which is opposing the Free Trade doctrines of the Labour and Liberal parties.
(Untitled), 28 Jul 1930
Memorandum by the agricultural committee of the Conservative Research Department on the use of a system of quotas to grant Imperial Preference to wheat without recourse to an import duty.
(Untitled), 23 Aug 1929
Empire Industries News Service no. 156: the cotton industry and safeguarding and imperial preference.
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1929
Empire Industries News Service no. 164: the lesson of the sugar duties; sugar and the future of preference.
(Untitled), 15 Nov 1929
Empire Industries News Service no. 166: progress of the safeguarded industries.
(Untitled), 22 Nov 1929
Empire Industries News Service no. 167: the policy of the Empire Industries Association.
(Untitled), 06 Dec 1929
Empire Industries News Service no. 169: safeguarding and employment.
(Untitled), 13 Dec 1929
Empire Industries News Service no. 170: safeguarding and revenue: customs report; imperial preference and imports.
(Untitled), 11 Oct 1929
Empire Industries News Service no. 162: coal and safeguarding; Manchester and the principles of Free Trade.
(Untitled), 03 Jan 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 172: Mr Snowden [Philip Snowden, later Lord Snowden] and safeguarding; the government, safeguarding and the Free Trade Union.
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 173: wrought enamelled hollow-ware; motor tyres.
(Untitled), 17 Jan 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 174: sensational developments in the Liberal press: the "Nation and Athenaeum" and safeguarding.
(Untitled), 24 Jan 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 175: imports and exports of safeguarded and non safeguarded manufactures.
(Untitled), 07 Mar 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 181: trade in safeguarded goods; trade activity in silk, artificial silk and rubber.
(Untitled), 31 Jan 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 176: Professor J M Keynes [John Maynard Keynes, later Lord Keynes] and the McKenna duties; Manchester and safeguarding.
(Untitled), 07 Feb 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 177: the volume of British trade.
(Untitled), 14 Feb 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 178: the Empire Industries Association and Mr Baldwin's [Stanley Baldwin, later Lord Baldwin] policy; Lord Olivier [earlier Sir Sydney Olivier] and the sugar duties; the progress of safeguarding: artificial silk yarn and crude rubber.
(Untitled), 21 Feb 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 179: distribution of trade; safeguarding and employment.
(Untitled), 14 Mar 1930
Empire Industries News Service no. 182: the "Daily News" and safeguarding; the balance of trade.
(Untitled), [Jan] [1930]
Memorandum [by a committee of Conservative MPs] indicating the practical objections to the scheme of Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] for encouraging the movement of Free Trade within the Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/173/31.
(Untitled), Nov 1929
Pamphlet issued by the Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland on the silk and rayon duties.
(Untitled), 24 Feb 1930
Letter from Sir Thomas Taylor (Thomas Taylor & Co, Manchester) on the beneficial effects of the silk and artificial silk duties on the trade in Britain.