LICENSING OF IMPORTS
MINISTER ANNOUNCES EXEMPTIONS (New Zealand Press Association) . WELLINGTON, December 17. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr J. T. Watts) tonight announced exemptions from import licensing for certain goods imported from non-scheduled countries. These he said, were based on Board of Trade recommendations. The readjustment of tariff charges on some of these and on other items is also announced by the Minister of Customs (Mr C. M. Bowden). These, too, Mr Bowden said, followed recommendations by the board after tariff hearings. . - The goods freed from import licensing include confectionery and chewing gum, sugared or crystallised vegetable products, toilet preparations, domestic clothes, washing machines, and vacuum cleaners. The new tariff for electric vacuum cleaners, for example, is:—British preferential, 25 per cent.; most favoured nation, 45 per cent.; and general, 60 per cent.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27226, 18 December 1953, Page 12
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