After Balfour's Conservatives were defeated in a landslide by the Liberals in the 1906 election, he was forced by the remaining Conservative Members of Parliament to support imperial preference.

贝尔福领导的保守党在 1906 年选举中被自由党以压倒性优势击败后，议会中剩余的保守党议员迫使他支持帝国主义。

However, a system of imperial preference could not be established unilaterally, and Chamberlain was disappointed when a conference in Ottawa in July concluded with no substantive agreements to reduce trade barriers with Canada.

然而，帝国优惠制度不可能单方面建立起来，当7月份在渥太华举行的会议结束时， 张伯伦感到失望， 因为没有达成减少与加拿大贸易壁垒的实质性协议。

Baldwin and Chamberlain believed that the way to restore the economy was with tariff reform, ending free trade and adopting imperial preference to protect the economic interests of Britain and the wider empire.

鲍德温和张伯伦认为，恢复经济的方法是关税改革、结束自由贸易并采用帝国优惠来保护英国和更广泛帝国的经济利益。