New Trade Agreement Will Free Palestine Products from Duty (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The questions of the Palestine government’s taxation policy and of the new Syria Palestine trade agreement were again raised in the House of Commons yesterday by Col. Wedgwood and Commander Kenworthy.
Col. Wedgwood inquired of the Colonial Secretary whether the declaration of Lord Balfour at the tenth anniversary dinner concerning the change of land taxation to relieve the position of the Jewish settlers in Palestine actually applies to only thirty villages and how many of these villages are Jewish and when the land taxation will be substituted for the tithe system.
Major Ormsby Gore, Understate Secretary for the Colonies, in reply declared that the experiment of the commutation of tithes will be applied in 63 villages, 22 of which are Jewish. Replying to the inquiry of Commander Kenworthy, Major Ormsby Gore stated that the new Palestine Syria Trade agreement will provide for the free importation into Syria of goods wholly produced or manufactured in Palestine, partly from foreign and partly from Palestine products, provided, however, that the foreign material does not exceed 75 per cent, of the quantity or the value of the article.
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