Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-12-27 | Page 3 | France Lifts Exchange Tax on British Goods

FRANCE LIFTS EXCHANGE TAX ON BRITISH GOODS PARIS Dee Dec 27 France JP-France P France under threat of reprisals l b by England took off oU the 15 per pcr cent exchange surtax on British goods today The official reason given was that English money can cen be considered stable It thereby became certain such sueh a tax lair would not be Imposed on American goods goads as seemed probable several months ago when a decree to that effect feet was prepared but never signed Removal of the tax it was asserted by y the opposition in the chamber of deputies months ago ago was the price France ranee paid for borrowing pounds in England last May when the French Trench treasury was all but empty and the government feared to try a aloan aloan loan oan at home Minister of Finance Georges Bonnet denied there had hadeen been een any bargain but the charge was as repeated