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Handelsfragen

zwischen Grofsbritannien einerseits und
Deutschland und Belgien andererseits.
1897-1903.*)

Nr. 12997. GROSSBRITANNIEN. - Der Gesandte in Brüssel an den Minister des Ausw. Die belgische Regierung betrachtet den kanadischen Tarif als vertragswidrig.

Brussels, May 9, 1897. (May 10.)

My Lord, || M. De Favereau spoke to me yesterday of the complaint which has been made by the Belgian Consul-General in Canada against the exclusion of Belgium from certain Tariff advantages which the Canadian Government wish to extend only to Great Britain. || His Excellency said that the action of the Canadian Government was in direct contradiction with the rights secured to Belgium by Article XV of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of the 23rd July, 1862. || I said that I had no authority to discuss the matter. The Belgian Minister in London was the proper channel for making the views of the Belgian Government. known to Her Majesty's Government. || His Excellency said he was only waiting for the written Report of their Consul-General to send instructions to Baron Whettnall to lay the matter before your Lordship. As yet the Belgian Foreign Department bad only telegraphic information of what had happened. F. R. Plunkett.

Nr. 12998. GROSSBRITANNIEN. Der Botschafter in Berlin an den Minister des Ausw. Die deutsche Regierung protestiert gegen den kanadischen Tarif.

Berlin, May 14, 1897. (May 17.)

My Lord, || In the course of conversation this afternoon Baron von Marschall informed me that he had telegraphed to Count Hatzfeldt

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to make a representation to your Lordship on the subject of the resolutions recently submitted to the Canadian Legislature to grant preferential treatment to the products of the United Kingdom. His Excellency said that Article VII of the Treaty of Commerce, which he read to me, was so explicit that he did not understand how any question could arise as to the right of Germany to claim any preferential treatment which might be accorded to Great Britain. || Baron von Marschall said that his reason for mentioning this subject to me was that he was convinced that the desire for the maintenance of good relations between the two countries which your Lordship had instructed me to express on my return to Berlin included commercial as well as political relations, and he would be grateful to me if I would draw your Lordship's attention to the great importance which the German Government attached to the question. || I replied that I would, of course, comply with his Excellency's request and that as far as I understood the matter, the Canadian Government were anxious that the conditions of the Treaty, which had been applied to them without their consent, should be abrogated. In our more recent Commercial Treaties it had been usual to insert a clause that the selfgoverning Colonies should come under their operation only if they expressed the desire to do so. || Baron von Marschall said that the Treaty of 1865 had been concluded with Her Majesty's Government, and it was to them that Germany must look for its due execution, and, moreover, Her Majesty's Government had the right of overruling Canadian legislation. To this I replied that it could not be doubted that the Treaty would be scrupulously observed as long as it existed, but that it was in the power of either of the Contracting Parties to denounce it by giving a year's notice, and I understood from the newspapers that the Canadian Government were anxious that this should be done. || His Excellency observed that it was easier to denounce a Treaty than to conclude a new one, to which I fully agreed, more especially in the case of Great Britain, who, in consequence of the Free Trade system, had few concessions to offer. In conclusion, Baron von Marschall repeated that he had mereley mentioned the subject to me in order to impress upon me the importance which the German Government attributed to the action of the Canadian Legislature.

Frank C. Lascelles.

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