ABSTRACT
We may begin by pointing out certain differences in colonial policies without reference to the actual countries adopting each alternative respectively. Colonies, firstly, may be divided into those possessing and those not possess ing self-government in tariff matters. Broadly speaking, it is only within the British Empire that colonial selfgovernment has proceeded very far, and there it is particu larly with reference to the group of self-governing dominions, which can nowadays hardly be considered as colonies at all, that the phenomenon of tariff independence shows itself, though signs are not wanting that the right to control the local tariff policy must be granted on an ever-increasing scale, as the case of India abundantly shows.
