AMENDED SCHEDULE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 5

AMENDED SCHEDULE

DETAILS.OF INCEEASES,

The amended schedule <tts tentatively agreed to bythe House is as follows:-— Eubber tires, rubber tiring, and inner tubes of rubber for pneumatic tires, n.e.i.: British preferential tariff, 10 per cent, ad . valorem; intermediate tariff, 25 per cent, ad valorem; general tariff, 35 per cent, ad valorem. Gas engines and oil ■ engines suited" for use on cycles, motor vehicles, traction engines and tractors suited for use in warehouses or upon wharves and pavements: British tariff, 10 per cent, ad valorem if entered and declared to be for use on cycles, motor . vehicles, traction engines and tractors suited for use in warehouses of upon wharves and pavements; intermediate, 25 per cent, ad valorem; general, 35 per cent, ad valorem. . ' ■ "'.,- Bicycles, tricycles, and the like vehicles, including motor-cycles,: also hubs,. spindles,-and other finished, partly finished, or machined parts of the same, n.e.i.; sidecars for motor-cycles: British tariff, 10 per cent, ad valorem; intermediate, 25 per cent, ad valorem; general, 3.5 per; cent, ad valorem. Motor vehicles n:e.i. (including tractors driven by gas, oil, or electricity, suited for use in warehouses, or upon, wharves and pavements): British tariff, 10 per cent, ad valorem; and, in cases where such motor-vehicles are imported having bodies suited or designed for carrying passengers, an additional duty (herein referred to as "body duty")-of 10 per cent., ad valorem on any such vehicle (inclusive of the body): Provided that where the value of duty of any vehiole (inclusive of the body) exceeds £200 the body duty shall be: On £200 of such value, 10 per cent, ad valorem; on the remainder of such value, 5 per cent, ad 'valorem. Intermediate, 25 per cent, ad valorem; and, in cases where such motor vehicles are. imported having bodies suited or designed for carrying passengers, an additional duty (herein referred t& as "body: duty") of 15 per cent.- ad valorem on any such vehicle (inclusive of the body): Provided that , where the value for duty of any vehicle (inclusive of the body) exceeds £200 the body duty shall be: On £200 of such value, 15 per cent.- ad valorem; on the, remainder of such v^ilue,' 7i per cent, ad valorem. General, 35 per cent, ad valorem; and, in, cases where such) motor vehicles are imported haying bodies suited or designed for carrying passen-i gers, an additional duty (herein re-j ferred to as "body duty) of 15 percent. :ad valorem on any such vehicle (inclusive of :the body): Provided that where the value, for duty of any vehicle (inclusive of.the body) exceeds £200 tha body duty-shall be':. On: £200 of such value, 15 per cent, ad valorem; on the remainder,of such value,' 7} per cent. adI..valorem.}1 :<, •;•■' „-' .••■■■• .When any body, of a motor-vehicle suited or designed for carrying passengers is imported: by itself or otherwise than'as set.out above, body duty shall, ■bo payable and the Minister shall determine the amount of such body duty. The body duty- so payable shall, as nearly as may be, be equal -to the amount of body duty; that would havo been payable if such body had been imported, as part of a.ud attached to a motor-vehicle manufactured in the same country as tho body.' ..'.-' Where the Minister is of opinion that any body duty is being or is likely to be evaded or avoided by the importation of any motor-vehicles withefut engines, tires, or other component parts which, in the ordinary course.of business, are usually imported therewith, the Minister may, at his discretion,' require that body'duty shall be paid as if such engines, tires, or other componont parts had been imported with such vehicles. . . ■ ■ : Speedometers, and mileage-recorders, suited-for use on road-vehicles: British tariff, 10 per cent, ad valorem; intermediate, 25, per cent, ad valorem; general,. 35 per cent, ad valorem. ; Timber, rough-sawn—(,l) Ash, hickory, lancewood, lignum vitae, and the timbers the botanical names of which are Swietenia species, Juglans species, Juniperus virginiana (red cedaT), Quercus sessiliflora, Quercds. ..- pedunculata, Quercus alba, Quercus garryana, and such other similar species or kinds of timbers as tho Mir'-ster may from time to time approve: British tariff, free; intermedia ate, free; general, free; (2) n.e.i.: British, 2s per 100.super,feet; intermediate, 2s per 100 super feet; general, 2s per 100 super feet. '