THE CHANGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 9

THE CHANGES.

ME. COATES' SUMMARY.

FEW DUTIES INCREASED.

REDUCTIONS ENUMERATED

Altogether the Now Zealand Customs tariff includes -110 items. Of these, some 344 are not touched by the recommendations of the commission nor by the proposals of the Government. In some form or other, the remaining 105 items are brought under consideration. The chief alterations in the tariff which (he Government has decided to make, so far as they affect the British preferential tariff, were enumerated by Mr. Coates in his explanatory statement last night they are as follows: — Protective Duties Abolished. Certain stock foods. Electric cooking and heating appliances. Nails n.e.i. Iron and steel pipes and fittings therefor. l.insecd oil. White lead in oil. Motor ear bodies. ■ Radio sets in cabinets. Radio sets of foreign manufacture are to be charged at 35 per cent if imported built up, whether in cabinets or not Only the parts not built up are to be admitted at the old general tariff rate of •25 per cent. Protection Reduced. Reductions from 25 per cent to 20 per cent.—Preserved and dried milk, soap, hats, caps and millinery, boots and shoes, leather manufactures, glass bottles, stationery and paper (manufactured), oil engines, galvanised iron manufactures, metal office furniture, etc. Reductions from 25 per cent to 15 per cent.—Tinware, furniture and upholster v. Reductions from 20 per cent to 15 per cent.—Paints and varnishes, biscuits. Reductions from 20 per cent to 10 per cent.—Baking powder, plaster pulp sheets, metal and stove polishes, leather dressings and polishes. Miscellaneous reductions. — Wooden doors, from 30 per cent, or 4/ per door, to 25 per cent; confectionery and chocolate, 27A per cent to 20 per cent; apparel, from 274 per cent to 25 per cent, or 20 per cent, according to kind; whole maize, from 2/ per cental to I/G per cental; jams, jellies and preserve, from 2d per lb to Jd per lb; vinegar, from (id per gallon to 3d per gallon; cement, from 1/ per ewt to 8d per cwt; matches, wax and wooden, 1/ per gross of boxes to Od per gross of boxes, with corresponding reductions for larger containers. Reductions in Revenue Duties. Reductions from 25 per cent to 20 per cent—Carpets, fancy goods, sporting requisites, jewellery and platedware. tobacco pipes, pouches, cigarette holders and cases. Other Reductions.—Toilet preparations, from 35 per cent to 25 percent; pianoa and other musical instruments, 20 per cent to 10 per cent; engines for tractors, 10 per cent to free: cigarettes, 33/9 per 1000 to 25/0 per 1000. Protective Duties Increased. Ground or crushed maize, from free to 2/ per cental. Porcelain enamelled cast iron bath.s. from 20' per cent to 25 per cent. Gas meters, from free to 10 per cent. Revenue Duties Increased. Cigarette papers, from 25 per cent ad valorem to ljd for each 00 cigarette papers. Motor vehicle chassis and trucks, from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.