Import Control Exemptions

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28347, 5 August 1957, Page 3

Import Control Exemptions

Millstones, artificial eyes and Passover bread are included in a list of goods exempted from import control in the latest Gazette. Also exempted are altar bread, grindstones, oilstones, whetstones, and chains.

types of machinery are exempted, including trolley poles and other parts of electric trams, machinery peculair to mining, and machinery used in manufacturing and industrial processes. The processes are baking, conferectionery making, bootmaking, brick and tile making, flour and grain milling, gas making, refrigerating, stone-crushing, and woollen and hosiery mills.

Hydraulic tipping hoists for motor-vehicles, and transistors are also included in the list. A list of goods which are exempt from control unless they come from within the dollar area includes Chinese crackers, sanitary ware (excluding WC pans, wash-hand basins and earthernware chambers), domestic electric food warmers, electric blankets and lead bends and traps. Licences are again required for importing leather cut into shapes for footwear, printed radio circuits with components mounted on them, and electric welding machines.