Coasting Trade

Imperial Coasting Trade: International Incident

In the book “International Incidents for Discussion in Conversation Classes”, in relation to this subject, L. Oppenheim wrote in 1909: At the Colonial Conferences in 1902 and 1907 Australian statesmen brought before the Imperial Government the question whether the term “coasting trade,” as used in British commercial treaties, could not be given such an extension of definition as would allow the entire exclusion of foreign shipping from the carrying trade between the United Kingdom and Australia.