Ottawa Agreements

E1732

The Ottawa Agreements were a series of 1932 trade accords within the British Empire that established preferential tariffs to promote intra-imperial trade and protect member economies during the Great Depression.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf imperial preference agreement
multilateral treaty
trade agreement
affects tariff rates on agricultural products
tariff rates on manufactured goods
alsoKnownAs Imperial Economic Conference agreements
Ottawa Agreements
surface form: Ottawa Accords
appliesTo Australia
British Empire
British colonies and dependencies
Canada
Dominions of the British Empire
British India
surface form: India (British India)

Irish Free State
New Zealand
Zimbabwe
surface form: Southern Rhodesia

South Africa
surface form: Union of South Africa

United Kingdom
concludedAtEvent Imperial Economic Conference agreements
surface form: Imperial Economic Conference of 1932
establishesPolicy imperial preference
preferential tariffs on intra-Empire trade
field economic history
international trade
hasConsequence discrimination against non-Empire countries in trade
increased protectionism within the British Empire
tightening of economic ties within the British Empire
hasLocationContext Parliament Hill
surface form: Parliament Hill, Ottawa
hasPurpose establish preferential tariffs within the British Empire
promote intra-imperial trade
protect member economies during the Great Depression
historicalPeriod interwar period
influences Dominion trade policy in the 1930s
United Kingdom trade policy in the 1930s
languageOfDocument English
legalForm series of bilateral trade agreements
series of multilateral understandings
motivatedBy collapse of world trade in the early 1930s
economic nationalism
negotiatedBy representatives of British India
representatives of the Dominions
representatives of the United Kingdom
partOf British Empire economic policy
relatedTo League of Nations efforts on trade liberalization
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
replaces earlier informal imperial preference practices
signedAt Ottawa
signedDuring Great Depression
signedInCountry Canada
signedInYear 1932

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this entity surface form: Ottawa Agreements of 1932
Ottawa Agreements alsoKnownAs Ottawa Agreements
this entity surface form: Ottawa Accords
Great Depression hasKeyEvent Ottawa Agreements
this entity surface form: Canada–United Kingdom trade agreement of 1932