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“...Brussels
Convention.
Sugar Crop.
286 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
For over a quarter of a century an active cam-
paign was carried on against bounties, which were
condemned by statesmen of every shade of poli-
tical opinion, though none had the courage to
stamp them out by imposing a countervailing duty
on bounty-fed sugar entering our markets, or by
prohibiting it. Several conferences were held, but
all proved abortive until 1902. On 5th March in
that year, at a conference at Brussels, a convention
was signed by the principal sugar-producing Powers,
by which they agreed to abolish bounties and to
render the existence of cartels impossible by limit-
ing the difference between the customs duties and
excise duties. A penal clause in this convention
provided that the high contracting Powers should
impose a countervailing duty on, or prohibit the
importation into their territories of, sugars from
countries which granted bounties either on pro-
duction or export. Thus equality of opportunity
in...”
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