The Free-Trade Movement and Its Results (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Armitage-Smith, G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330229541 ISBN 13 : 9781330229545

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Preface to the Second Edition Lord Beaconsfield once remarked that Protection was not only dead but damned .T he remark seems likely to be disproved; we are threatened with a revival of the whole Free-trade controversy. The events which have contributed to this prospect are several, (i) An agitation of many years against the Continental sugarbounties has culminated in a convention by which bounty-fed sugar will be excluded from Great Britain, to the admitted loss of British consumers. (2) The heavy burden of expenditure entailed by the South African War led in 1902 to the reimposition of the Corn Duty after fifty-six years. Financial exigencies and an attempt to place taxation on a broader basis were the arguments for the measure; it was, however, interpreted by Protectionists as a recantation of Freetrade doctrine and the beginning of a new era of protection, and great was their disappointment when the tax was in the following year repealed as no longer necessary. By its supporters the incidence of this duty, yielding ;2,500,000, was variously assigned to foreign exporters, shippers, merchants, c., but was declared to have no effect on consumers. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, however, in repealing the tax, maintained that it fell upon the poorest classes. (3) An alarm in some quarters respecting the supply of food in case of war has led to the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the subject.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330229541
• ISBN 13: 9781330229545
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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