Unpublished Schedules As to Canada and Australia, all the world
is allowed to learn so far is that measures will be submitted to their Parliaments providing for preferences, of a degree un- disclosed, over a wide range of British imports still unspecified. The British industries most interested in the discussions were the iron and steel, textile and electrical. British iron and steel is likely to gain some advantage in Canada at the expense of American, but it does not look as if Lancashire had much to hope for. In textiles the competition is not with the American manufacturer but the Canadian, and the principle of protecting the home industry has. emerged unscathed from the Conference so far as Canada is concerned. What other British industries stand to gain will not be officially known till the relevant Bills are before the Canadian Parliament, but as the facts are bound to leak out in any case the minimum of advan• tagc and the maximum of disadvantage will accrue from a procedure against which the British delegation strenuously protested.
