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...with the problem of what to do with her already increased production.* He said that the Government had been obliged to come to the aid of the fruit growers, because they could find no market for their produce. He, therefore, invited the Imperial Government to place a tariff on raw materials and foodstuffs with an adequate preference to the Dominions...
Other matters discussed by the Conference: credit for smaller Colonies; consideration of Premier Bruce's plan to form an Empire purchasing pool for food and raw materials; scheme for ensuring preference on public contracts; scheme for developing outlying parts of Empire; consideration of League of Nations and its conduct in the recent Italo-Greek dispute (all Dominion Premiers were solid in favor of the Commonwealth supporting the League to the utmost of its ability...
...Department of Commerce reported a trade improvement in Italy. It was stated that " the usual Fall revival in trade has not yet taken place, but rising imports of raw materials indicate an increase in industrial activity over 1922. Railway traffic is increasing and the revival in building activity is maintained. Crops have proved larger than the preliminary estimates...
Captain Ezio Garibaldi, grandson of the patriot, received the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary and was sent on a special mission to Mexico. The object of his mission is to seek an economic accord with Mexico, where Italy can obtain a large part of the raw materials necessary to her industries...
...support the mother country as they did during the war. But quite naturally they expect some return. They have asked the Imperial Conference in London, that in return for opening their markets to British trade and their land to British immigration, England's markets may be protected for their raw materials. This means the end of Free Trade, it means, in fact, economic isolation like that of the United States. And, as an indication of the British mind in the matter such protection has already been granted in some minor articles of trade...