TARIFF ANOMALIES
POSITION IN AUSTRALIA
\NEW DUTY OF 900 PER CENT.
SYDNEY, 15th December,
New tariff anomalies have produced what is believed to be record Customs duties. A city firm importing scientific glassware had'to pay £375 duty on a consignment to cover glasses valued at £40, tho duty thus .amounting to 900 per cent. On a lot of microscopic slides, valued at £35, £132 duty had to be paid.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1929, Page 11
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69TARIFF ANOMALIES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1929, Page 11
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