Excerpt from Commercial Policy of France: And the Treaty With England of 1860 In France the Free Trade policy was introduced, not as in 'england, by independent tariff reforms, but by successive Treaties of Commerce with foreign powers, whereby reciprocal simultaneous reductions were effected, thus securing in each case a double advantage, by opening the markets of France to foreign competition, and at the same time obtaining for French produce increased facilities of access to the markets of other countries. As these arrange ments were necessarily, however, a work of time, and are even still incomplete, the effect of the new policy upon the industry and trade of France has been less rapid and powerful than it would have been if her commercial reforms had' been concentrated in one general measure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.