"What I am about to propose is the very thing for which the country has elected the present Parliament. The day has now come!"
Thus did Neville Chamberlain, Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, serve notice on the world last week that 86 years of British free trade were at an end. Effective March i, Britain will impose a 10% ad valorem tariff on all articles not already taxed except meat, wheat, raw cotton, raw wool, tea. British-caught fish and (until after the Imperial Economic Conference at...
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