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The Corn Production Act 1917 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. c. 46) was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom under David Lloyd George 's coalition government during the Great War .
The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favour domestic farmers, and represented British mercantilism. [ a ] The Corn Laws blocked the import of cheap corn, initially by simply forbidding importation below a set price, and later by imposing steep import duties, making it too expensive to import it from abroad, even when food supplies ...
An Act to repeal the Corn Production Acts, 1917 and 1920, to make provision as to payments under those Acts in respect of the crops of the current year, to provide funds for agricultural development, to promote the formation of joint conciliation committees for the industry of agriculture, and to make certain consequential amendments in section ...
Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1875; Agricultural Holdings (England) Act 1883; Agricultural Holdings Act 1948; Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995; Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act 1924; Agricultural Wages Act 1948; Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 1952; Agriculture Act 1920; Agriculture Act 1947; Agriculture and Technical Instruction ...
The issue was divisive because of the increased urbanisation of the UK and its need for cheap food, as well as the general influence of free trade doctrines. The repeal of the Corn Laws initially steadied grain prices. Experts differ over whether by 1846 the Corn Laws were still relevant, because of low prices and/or self-sufficiency in grain. [43]
The great depression of British agriculture occurred during the late nineteenth century and is usually dated from 1873 to 1896. [1] Contemporaneous with the global Long Depression, Britain's agricultural depression was caused by the dramatic fall in grain prices that followed the opening up of the American prairies to cultivation in the 1870s and the advent of cheap transportation with the ...
The corn laws imposed steep import duties, reducing the quantity of grain imported from other countries, even when food supplies were short. The laws were supported by Conservative landowners and opposed by Whig industrialists and workers. The Anti-Corn Law League was responsible for turning public and ruling-class opinion against the laws. It ...
The Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4.c. 105), also known as the Customs' Laws' Repeal Act 1825, the Customs Repeal Act 1825 or the Customs Act 1825, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed various enactments relating to customs in the United Kingdom from 1558 to 1823.