That for the same purpose it appears also to this Committee, that it
would be fit to propose that His Majesty’s Subjects in Ireland shall
at all times hereafter be entitled to the same privileges, and be on
the same footing in respect of Trade and Navigation, in all Ports and
Places belonging to Great Britain, and in all cases with respect to which
Treaties shall be made by His Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, with
any Foreign Power, as His Majesty’s Subjects in Great Britain; that no
Duty shall be imposed on the Import or Export between Great Britain and
Ireland of any Articles now Duty free; and that on other Articles there
shall be established, for a time to be limited, such a moderate rate of
equal Duties as shall, previous to the Union, be agreed upon and approved
by the respective Parliaments, subject, after the expiration of such
limited time, to be diminished equally with respect to both Kingdoms,
but in no case to be encreased; that all Articles which may at any time
hereafter be imported into Great Britain from Foreign Parts, shall be
importable through either Kingdom into the other, subject to the like
Duties and Regulations as if the same were imported directly from Foreign
Parts; that where any Articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of
either Kingdom, are subject to any internal Duty in one Kingdom, such
countervailing Duties (over and above any Duties on import to be fixed
as aforesaid) shall be imposed as shall be necessary to prevent any
inequality in that respect: and that all other matters of Trade and
Commerce other than the foregoing, and than such others as may before
the Union be specially agreed upon for the due encouragement of the
Agriculture and Manufactures of the respective Kingdoms, shall remain to
be regulated from time to time by the United Parliament.