2009
DOI: 10.1017/s0898030609990121
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Retreat from Protectionism: R. B. Bennett and the Movement to Freer Trade in Canada, 1930–1935

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“…Of course, a number of conflating factors arose in the meantime such as the global recovery in GDP from 1933 and the perhaps-related abandonment of the gold standard by the US in the same year. Further ambiguity was introduced by Canada's relatively quick "retreat from protectionism" and its subsequent ratification of reciprocal trade agreements with the United States in 1935and 1938(O'Brien and McDonald, 2009. So, the question remains: did the Imperial Economic Conference actually serve to boost the growth of imperial trade over and beyond that of non-imperial nations?…”
Section: Conservativementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Of course, a number of conflating factors arose in the meantime such as the global recovery in GDP from 1933 and the perhaps-related abandonment of the gold standard by the US in the same year. Further ambiguity was introduced by Canada's relatively quick "retreat from protectionism" and its subsequent ratification of reciprocal trade agreements with the United States in 1935and 1938(O'Brien and McDonald, 2009. So, the question remains: did the Imperial Economic Conference actually serve to boost the growth of imperial trade over and beyond that of non-imperial nations?…”
Section: Conservativementioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the perspective of Canada and the other Dominions, gaining enhanced access to the UK market was clearly one of their more immediate objectives. But whether this reflected a desire to somehow replace the UK for the US as the primary destination for Canadian exports or more modestly to return Canadian exports to their pre-1930 levels is unclear (O'Brien and McDonald, 2009). Regardless of what their long-run aspirations were, however, all signatories hoped that the concessions agreed to in Ottawa would significantly lower trade costs among them.…”
Section: Putting the Ottawa Conference In Perspectivementioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the perspective of Canada and the other Dominions, gaining enhanced access to the UK market was clearly one of their more immediate objectives. But whether this reflected a desire to somehow replace the UK for the US as the primary destination for Canadian exports or more modestly to return Canadian exports to their pre-1930 levels is unclear (O'Brien and McDonald, 2009).…”
Section: Putting the Ottawa Conference In Perspectivementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Of course, a number of conflating factors arose in the meantime such as the global recovery in GDP from 1933 and the perhaps-related abandonment of the gold standard by the US in the same year. Further ambiguity was introduced by Canada's relatively quick "retreat from protectionism" and its subsequent ratification of reciprocal trade agreements with the United States in1935(O'Brien and McDonald, 2009. So, the question remains: did the Imperial Economic Conference actually serve to boost the growth of imperial trade over and beyond that of non-imperial nations?…”
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confidence: 99%