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C 3863.
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SIR,
(3.)
Board of Trade to Foreign Office.
BOARD OF TRade,
(Commercial Department).
LONDON, S.W.
19th July, 1886.
With reference to previous correspondence, and to your letter of the 26th of May last, suggesting the publication of a despatch from Sir J. S. Lumley, enclosed therewith, respecting certain changes in the classification of the Italian Customs Tariff, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of the Earl of Rosebery, that they have carefully considered the question of publishing periodically this and other similar information on Tariffs and Trade. The enclosed specimen number of such a publication has now been prepared in proof by their direction, and the Board of Trade propose to circulate copies among the Chambers of Commerce, together with a circular letter, of which a copy is enclosed, asking for their suggestions.
The Board of Trade are of opinion that a publication of this kind, containing the recent and proposed changes in Customs Tariffs, and their notes and regula tions, as well as any short special reports on Tariffs and Trade, would be of great service to the commercial community of this country. Such a publication is not intended to supersede in any way either the Diplomatic and Consular Reports issued at the Foreign Office, or the periodical Returns of Foreign and Colonial Tariffs prepared in this Department, but to be supplementary to both; and this Board will be glad to have Lord Rosebery's sanction to publishing in the present. number certain Reports from Her Majesty's representatives abroad which have been transmitted to this Department by his Lordship's direction, and generally to receive the co-operation and assistance of the Foreign Office in the matter, so as to make the Tariff and Trade Notices as useful as possible.
The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.'
I have, &c.,
(Sd.)
HENRY G. CAlcraft.
(4.)
Foreign Office to Board of Trade.
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C 3187.
SIR,
FOREIGN OFFICE,
July 27th, 1886.
I am directed by the Earl of Rosebery to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th instant, and to request that you will convey his Lordship's thanks to the Board of Trade. for affording him an opportunity of inspecting a proof of the publication of Tariff and Trade Notices which they propose to issue.
In reply, I am directed to convey to you his Lordship's complete concurrence with the plan of the new publication, which carries out views expressed on behalf of this Office in the month of February last, and to say that the Board may rely on the cordial co-operation of this Department in supplying information for its columns. He would, however, suggest that some gentleman from the Board of Trade may confer with this Department regarding the details of this publication, so far as they concern the Foreign Office, with the especial object of settling a. method of determining what papers from this Office may be published by the Board, so that the risk of the publication of any confidential matter may be