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- Tariff_Reform_League abstract "The Tariff Reform League (TRL) was a British pressure group formed in 1903 to protest against 'unfair' foreign imports and to advocate Imperial Preference to protect British industry from foreign competition. It was well funded and included politicians, intellectuals and businessmen, and was popular with the grassroots of the Conservative Party. By 1914 it had approximately 250,000 members. It is associated with the national campaign of Joseph Chamberlain, the most outspoken and charismatic supporter of Tariff Reform. The historian Bruce Murray has claimed that the TRL \"possessed fewer prejudices against large-scale government expenditure than any other political group in Edwardian Britain\".The League wanted to see the British Empire transformed into a single trading bloc, to compete with Germany and the United States. It favoured imposing duties on imports—as did Germany and the US—and the channelling of the money raised from these duties into social reforms. High import duties, the League claimed, would make increasing other taxes unnecessary. However opponents claimed that protection would mean dearer food, especially bread.Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson was its chairman and, with Sir Harry Brittain, a founding member. Sir Henry Page Croft was chairman of its organisation committee. Pearson was later succeeded as chairman of the League by Viscount Ridley.Tariff Reform split the MPs of the Conservative Party and was the major factor in its landslide defeat in 1906 to the Liberals who advocated Free Trade. The Conservative Party under Bonar Law slightly downplayed Tariff Reform as official policy, abandoning Balfour's pledge that it would be put to the public in a referendum. Some wartime tariffs (\"McKenna Duties\") were, ironically, introduced by the Liberal Chancellor Reginald McKenna in 1915.Shortly after the First World War the TRL was disbanded, although other organisations promoting the same cause were still active in the 1920s. One such organisation was the Fair Trade Union created by Joseph Chamberlain's son, Neville, and the Conservative MP Leo Amery. The British Commonwealth Union, led by Patrick Hannon, was another. Tariff Reform became official Conservative policy under Stanley Baldwin and was the major issue in the 1923 general election. The party lost its majority in the election and Tariff Reform was again dropped until the 1930s. Protectionism was eventually introduced by the Ottawa Agreements in 1932 (Joseph's son Neville Chamberlain was Chancellor at the time) and then dismantled at US insistence (Article VII of the wartime Lend Lease Agreement) in the 1940s.The Unionist Free Food League, formed under the chairmanship of Sir Michael Hicks Beach in July 1903, was a reaction to the Tariff Reform League.".
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- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Lend-Lease.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Leo_Amery.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Party_(UK).
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Matthew_White_Ridley,_2nd_Viscount_Ridley.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Hicks_Beach,_1st_Earl_St_Aldwyn.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Neville_Chamberlain.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Patrick_Hannon.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Reginald_McKenna.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Sir_Arthur_Pearson,_1st_Baronet.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Stanley_Baldwin.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink Unionist_Free_Food_League.
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
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- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tariff Reform League".
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tariff Reform".
- Tariff_Reform_League wikiPageWikiLinkText "tariff reform movement".
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- Tariff_Reform_League subject Category:1903_establishments_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Tariff_Reform_League subject Category:Conservative_political_pressure_groups_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Tariff_Reform_League subject Category:Political_history_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Tariff_Reform_League subject Category:Protectionism.
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- Tariff_Reform_League comment "The Tariff Reform League (TRL) was a British pressure group formed in 1903 to protest against 'unfair' foreign imports and to advocate Imperial Preference to protect British industry from foreign competition. It was well funded and included politicians, intellectuals and businessmen, and was popular with the grassroots of the Conservative Party. By 1914 it had approximately 250,000 members.".
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