MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 3

MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS

AMENDED IMPORTATION CONDITIONS MORE WORK TO BE DONE IN DOMINION. ASSISTANCE TO INDUSTRIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Amended conditions relating to the importation of unassembled motor-ve-hicles are set out in determinations published in the Gazette issued last evening. They are dated April 29, and are signed by the Minister of Customs, Mr Nash. The new determinations will become operative on October 1 next, when they will replace those at present in force.

The purpose of the determination is to prescribe the condition of dis-as-sembly in which motor-vehicles must be imported in order to qualify for entry at the concesional rates of duty set cut in item No. 389 (a) of the Customs tariff. Tbe present determinations have been in force since September 1, 1935. There are now being revised with a view to requiring that additional work, should be performed in connection with completion of the vehicles in New Zealand.

The following are the main aspects in which the determinations have been amended: —

Upholstery Materials (other than of wool). —These are at present admitted a.; part of the vehicle if cut and preliminarily sewn. In future their importation will not be permitted in any form whatever.

Batteries. —in future only New Zea-land-made batteries shall be used, in completion of the vehicles. Bumper Bars. —In future these will be admitted only in the form of rough stampings or metal sections, unmachined and not plated. All maching and plating will be required to be performed in New Zealand. Motor-car Bodies. —These can at present be imported in the form of a “shell” having a priming coat of paint. They will continue to be admitted in the form of a “shell,” but may not be advanced beyond the stage of manufacture where only the necessary welding processes have been performed. Undercarriage Springs for Commercial Vehicles.—it will be necessary in future for these to be made in New Zealand.

Seat Spring Assemblies for All-steel Cable for Trucks and Vans.—lmportation will not be permitted. Doors for all-steel cabs, for trucks and vans—To be imported unassembed. It is expected that the modifications, particularly in respect of upholstery, batteries, bumper bars and under-car-riage springs and seat spring assemblies for commercial vehicles, will prove of considerable assistance to the particular industries concerned in supplying such goods. It is expected also that as a result of the restrictions placed in the importation of completely assembled vehicles under the Import Licensing Regulations considerable employment will be created in the completion in the Dominion of vehicles which will be imported in an unassembled condition in lieu of the vehicles hitherto imported complete.