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| Title: | Slamming the 'open door': British protectionist fiscal policy in inter-war Nigeria |
| Author: | Olukoju, Ayodeji |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Periodical: | The Nigerian Journal of Economic History |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-20 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria Great Britain |
| Subjects: | colonialism fiscal policy palm kernels textiles |
| Abstract: | British colonial fiscal policy focussed on the raising of revenue locally from taxes on trade and, by extension, the promotion of trade and the development of the colonial economy. However, metropolitan interests predominated and at certain times the British resorted to protectionist measures in their colonies. Thus fiscal measures such as tariffs and quotas were adopted to favour certain metropolitan commercial or industrial interests at the expense of the interests of local colonial subjects and foreigners (non-British). Cases in point are the differential export duty on palm kernels introduced by the British in Nigeria after the outbreak of World War I and the anti-Japanese textile quotas of the 1930s. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |