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Brown calls for abolition of tariffs

30/07/2001

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, has called for a reduction in industrial tariffs between the EU and US to zero. He made the comments at a meeting of British American Business Incorporated (formerly the Anglo-US Chamber of Commerce) on Thursday, 26 July. The Chancellor is thought to be less in favour of Britain’s entry to the euro than Prime Minister Tony Blair, but he stressed the need for Britain to maintain links with Europe and America.

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