In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War economic relations between Britain and the Commonwealth were very close, and the Empire was of greater economic importance to Britain than at any previous time. International economic conditions were dominated by the dollar shortage, and...

At the beginning of the twentieth century Canada's external trading and financial links were dominated by those with the UK and the USA. By the end of the century the British link had become tenuous while the USA has increased its dominance of Canadian imports and become the overwhelmingly most...

This paper contributes to the arguments, advanced in a number of recent studies, that protectionism ahd a substantial positive net influence on the British economy during the 1930's.