INCREASED DUTIES
U.S. MANUFACTURERS’ DEMANDS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Petitioners appearing before the ways and means committee asked for increased duties on the higher - grades of woollen fabrics, woollen wearing apparel, and goods containing mixtures of wool and other fibres, and \ woollen outer wear garments. A group of importers asked for lower duties on woollens and worsteds and men’s and boy’s clothing, but the National Association of Woollen Manufacturers asked for higher duties on these items. It is understood that the latter group will demand specific duties on clothes and wearing apparel of 1.1, and on yarn 1.2 times that on wool; Jive to ten per cent increases in advalorem duties on higher graded fabrics and ten per cent increases in duties on wearing apparel and goods dutiable under the so-called “basket clause.” It will also be asked that ■fabric containing any wool be assess--able at full wool duties, and that the basket clause rates apply to all products containing ten per cent or more of wool.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1929, Page 5
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