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MEMORANDUM IN CONNECTION WITH RESOLUTIONS AFFECTING BRITISH SHIPPING.

(April 1907.)

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I. Tonnage of Vessels engaged in British Coasting Trade at two periode, viz.,

1896 and 1906, distinguishing between Foreign and British Vessels.

II. Nationality of Vessels that entered and cleared with Cargoes, in Trade between the United Kingdom and the Principal Colonies and Posses- sions in 1906.

III. Statistics of British Inter-Colonial Trade and Colonial Coasting Trades.

IV. Statistics relating to the Coasting and Colonial Trades of France, Germany,

Holland, Doutnark, Portugal, and the United States respectively. V.-Tonnage of Foreign Vessels entered and cleared at Ports of the United Kingdom in the Trade with British Colonics and Possessions in 1906, grouped according to the treatment which those countries extend to British Vossels. VI.-Statement of the Treaty or Legislative Provisions affecting the participation of Foreign Vessels in the Coasting Trade of certain Countries, and of the Treaty Right of such countries to share in the Coasting Trade of the United Kingdom.

VII.-Statement as to the Rights accorded by Treaty to Foreign Countries in

respect of the Coasting Trade in British Colonics and Possessions. [NOTE-Annexes I, to VII. will be found at pp. 474 to 493 of [Cd. 3524].] VIII-Statement showing the extent to which existing British Commercial Treaties impose Restrictions on the accord by the Colonies of Preferences to such British Goods only as are carried in British Ships

IX. Statement of the Treaty Provisions affecting the Participation of Foreign

Vessels in the British Inter-Imperial Trade

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1.-Practice of Foreign Countries with regard to the Shipping Trade with their over-sea and distant Possessions.

Germany and Holland do not reserve the trade with their over-sea possessions, or give any preference to national vessels engaged in such trade (other, of course, than that which is conferred by the German shipping subsidies). Denmark opens the trade between Denmark and Iceland or the Faroe Islands on condition of reciprocity.

France reserves the trade between her Atlantic and Mediterranean sea-boards, and also the trade between France and Algeria. Subject to this exception, the carrying trade between France and her over-sea Colonies is open to foreign vessels on equal terms with French vessels (except in so far as the national vessels are benefited by the French shipping subsidies).

Spain, before the virtual extinction of her Colonial Empire, admitted the produce of her Colonies at preferential rates if carried in Spanish bottoms, but did not give an absolute monopoly to the Spanish flag.

Portugal, in theory, restricts her colonial trade to national vessels; but has, in fact, by a series of laws and decrees, thrown open the greater part of this trade to foreign shipping.

Russia reserves the trade between her Baltic and her Black Sea ports, and has also reserved the trade between her European and Asiatic seaboards to national vessels since the 30th May 1902.

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