On Thursday, November 15th, Sir Laming Worthington- Evans in the
House of Commons announced the new rules for Safeguarding. The words " abnormal and exceptional " used in the present rules to describe the conditions of foreign competition that.. are -held to justify a claim for -Safeguarding are to be omitted. This omission will, of course, open the door to industries which are now prevented from approaching the Committee. On the other hand a provision is to be inserted that in the case of industries which produce the raw material of other industries, an application for Safeguarding may be resisted by those other industries. This new emphasis on a provision which to some extent already existed will let loose innumerable lions in the path of those.who want to safeguard the iron and steel industry. Almost more than any otherindustry_it.produces raw materials for other -trades... Another change is that the . Beard of Trade will no longer be able to decide whether a-trade may approach the Committee at all. _ As against- this concession, however, there is a. variety of questions to -be put to every appealing industry, and in these questions many snags are concealed. . - -
Previous page
