Protection in South AfricaPro ecclesia printing works, 1923 - 203 páginas |
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... carried by swift streams into the Indian Ocean . Most of the rivers of South Africa flow into the Indian Ocean , and the rapidity of the streams and the little volume of water which they usually contain make them unfit for navigation ...
... carried by swift streams into the Indian Ocean . Most of the rivers of South Africa flow into the Indian Ocean , and the rapidity of the streams and the little volume of water which they usually contain make them unfit for navigation ...
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... carrying on of a native war , the colonists had to look after themselves . This created an inde- pendent spirit in these hardy frontier farmers and made their allegiance to a company , whose head - quarters were 6,000 miles away , very ...
... carrying on of a native war , the colonists had to look after themselves . This created an inde- pendent spirit in these hardy frontier farmers and made their allegiance to a company , whose head - quarters were 6,000 miles away , very ...
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... carried by the ships belonging to the mother country . ( 1 ) . The general policy , then , was one of exclusion of the foreigner . It was against this policy that the Physiocrats objected , as they were convinced of the value of ...
... carried by the ships belonging to the mother country . ( 1 ) . The general policy , then , was one of exclusion of the foreigner . It was against this policy that the Physiocrats objected , as they were convinced of the value of ...
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... carrying that policy into effect . " ( 2 ) . This is supposed to be necessary for the sake of uniformity within the Empire . Thus we find that the trade of the Cape of Good Hope and later of Natal , was regulated by Orders - in ...
... carrying that policy into effect . " ( 2 ) . This is supposed to be necessary for the sake of uniformity within the Empire . Thus we find that the trade of the Cape of Good Hope and later of Natal , was regulated by Orders - in ...
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... carried in British ships , should not exceed 5 per cent . ad valorem . ( 2 ) . Here one can still see the policy of keeping the colonies for a market for the goods of the colonizing state and the fact that inter - colonial trade was ...
... carried in British ships , should not exceed 5 per cent . ad valorem . ( 2 ) . Here one can still see the policy of keeping the colonies for a market for the goods of the colonizing state and the fact that inter - colonial trade was ...
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15 per cent ad valorem African Customs Union agricultural American amount Australia Board of Trade Britain British colonies British Empire British manufactures British possessions British ships Canada Cape and Natal Cape Colony Cape Town Cape wine Chamber of Commerce colonists Conference Convention customs duties customs tariff Customs Union Delagoa Bay Dominions duties levied duty-free England export fact favour ference foreign countries free trade gallon Government Governor granted History of South Ibid import duties increase interests J. A. Hobson J. H. Hofmeyr Johannesburg Johannesburg Chamber machinery ment mining mother country nation Orange Free Order-in-Council Order-in-Council was issued paid Parliament ports pounds sterling preferential tariff preferential treatment Pretoria produce or manufacture railway raw materials rebate reciprocal regulations Report South Africa South African Customs South African Republic Southern Rhodesia sugar territory Theal Trade Journal Trade Policy Transvaal treaty Union of South United Kingdom Volume Zealand
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Página 173 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience.
Página 173 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...
Página 172 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Página 19 - Canada is less than the fair market value of the same article when sold for home consumption in the usual and ordinary course in the country whence exported to Canada at the time of its exportation to Canada...
Página 111 - Whereas the stability and progress of the British Empire can be best assured by drawing continually closer the bonds, that unite the colonies with the mother country, and by the continuous growth of a practical sympathy and...
Página 174 - By means of glasses, hot-beds, and hot-walls very good grapes can be raised in Scotland, and very good wine, too, can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries.
Página 173 - ... disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience. A country which has this skill and experience yet to acquire, may in other respects be better adapted to the production than those which were earlier in the field: and besides, it is a just remark of Mr. Rae, that nothing has a greater tendency to promote improvements in any branch of production, than its trial under a new set of conditions.
Página 130 - ... Kingdoms, Duchies, and Principalities of Germany before the creation of the German Empire. What a prospect of mutual heartburning and bitterness does not the contemplation of such a catastrophe present ! Yet the danger will be imminent unless the Colonies take another step forward towards Union. Can they stand still on the compromise embodied in the present Customs Convention? That Convention does not represent a South African Customs policy ; it is a compromise between five Colonial Customs...
Página 85 - The general feeling in Germany towards the Zollverein is that it is the first step towards what is called the Germanization of the people. It has broken down some of the strongest holds of alienation and hostility. By a community of interests on commercial and trading questions it has prepared the way for a political nationality.
Página 112 - Therefore resolved : That this Conference records its belief in the advisability of a customs arrangement between Great Britain and her Colonies by which trade within the Empire may be placed on a more favourable footing than that which is carried on with foreign countries.