Tariff Reform: 1900-1906

• Taxes on foreign trade (imports and exports)
• Creates more industry within British industry
• Protects industry from countries outside Britain
• Imperial preference encourages trade within the empire
• Higher tax rates on goods from outside the empire

• Trading for free in and out of empire
• No taxes on imports and exports
• Makes trading more efficient
• Joe Chamberlain disagreed with free trade

• 'Spearheaded' tariff reform
• From Birmingham
• Disagreed with free trade
• Left liberals over home rule & set up liberal unionists
• Lost in 1906 landslide victory
• Conservatives basically handed over to Liberals

• Competiting with economy & trading of counries e.g. France & Germany
• Chamberlain suggested Tariff Reform was the solution

• People voted unanimously for Liberals
• Landslide victory

- conservatives lost over half of their seats

- won by an overwhelming majority 

• Reason for landslide victory was issue over tariff reform
• Workers feared rises in costs of; living & food
• Chamberlain argued it was a short term solution, but this didnt convince them

• Pressure group set up by Chamberlain in 1903
• Protested against 'unfair' foreign trade
• Ploy to protect British industry from foreign competition
• Received 250'000 members by 1914
• Grassroots of Conservative party