DUTIES IMPOSED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 285, 27 July 1932, Page 5

DUTIES IMPOSED

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PERATIVE FROM YESTERDAY

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LONDON, Tuesday. jir. de Valera has announced that 'e anti-British tarift's will be operive as from Tuesday They consist \ 5/- ton impost on coal. Twenty per cent. ad valorem on eepjt electricity apparatus, cables, ireless, insulators, iron and steel ticles. ftVo and fourpence per cwt. on mr, molasses, glucose; 9d per ounce t aceharine. Afarthing per pound or 3d per galj on articles other than sugar, conctionery, cocoa, preparations, wines, v3Cco and spirits containing sugar. Eighty-four shillings per cwt, on a meat and sausages. Forty-two shillings on pigs' heads, it and other products, although the ;ies are to be reauced when from ijiin tlie British Commonwealth, but sif the property of Ulster farmers ,] imported singly, and lard wThen jiired for margarina manufacture. [heeseniaking machinery is taxed )per cent., although admissable free ■!er license. Ihe potato duties are vari'sd, the iferential rate being withdrawn ex:tfi'om Ulster. Clauses provide that British goods ilbe subject to tariffc if imported i other countries. Penalties for infringements are £50 4 the confiscation of the articles ihe iraportation of British clieese totally prohibited from to-night Itis explained the coal impost and ! 20 per cent. duties are applicable !y to imports from Britain, but the sr duties apply to all countries exitffhere exceptions are specified. Ihe Government explains that the adily growing influx of cheap Conatal bacon has neeessitated renng the home market, because the a State farmers have found the i;li market was closed to them •rthe duties were imposed on July