インド棉花輸出問題から観た英印民間会商と第一次日印会商 : 1930年代前半の対英特恵関税問題再考

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This paper considers the impact of the imperial preference system on economic relations between Britain and India in the 1930s. Most of the literature to date has considered the Indo-British and Anglo-Japanese trade agreements in terms of British exports of cotton goods to India. By contrast, this paper focuses on fiscal issues and on the problems of Indian raw cotton exports. Revenue issues were an important consideration during the trade negotiations. Despite the granting of preferences, the Indian exchequer could raise more revenue from tariffs on British cotton imports than from Japanese cotton imports, except for plain cotton cloth. This meant that it was reasonable to retain imperial preference for fiscal reasons. Indian exports of raw cotton also played a key role. The conclusion of the Lees-Mody Pact of 1933 and the Indo-Japanese Trade Agreement of 1934, which admitted imperial preference and guaranteed British purchases of Indian cotton, secured the revenue base of the Indian government through tariffs on cotton imports and earnings from the export of primary goods. Thus the threat posed by Japanese competition set the parameters for discussion in the Indo-British trade relationship in the first half of the 1930s.
社会経済史学会の論文
2006-03-25