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"4. That tlie Prime Ministers of the Colouies 

 respectfully urge on Ills Majesty's Government 

 the expediency of granting in the United King- 

 dom preferential treatment to the products and 

 manufactures of the Colonies, either by exemp- 

 tion from or reduction of duties now or hereafter 

 imposed. 



" 5. That the Prime Ministers present at the 

 Conference undertake to submit to their respec- 

 tive Governments at the earliest opportunity the 

 principle of the resolution, and to request them 

 to take such measures as may be necessary to give 

 effect to it." 



Recommendations. 

 The representatives of the Colonies are pre- 

 pared to recommend to their respective Parlia- 

 ments preferential treatment of British goods on 

 the following lines : — 



Canada : — The existing preference of 33^ per 

 cent., and an additional preference on lists of 

 selected articles: — 



[a] By further reducing the duties in favour 



of the United Kingdom; 

 {h) By raising the duties against foreign im- 

 ports ; 

 (c) By imposing duties on certain foreign im- 

 ports now on the free list. 

 Australia : — Preferential treatment, not yet 

 defined as to nature or extent. 



New Zealand: — A general preference by 10 

 per cent, all-round reduction of the present duty 

 on British manufactured goods, or an equivalent 



