TARLEWARE IMPORTS
20 p.c. Duty On Bone China (New Zealana Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 22. “The effect of the new table crockery tariff of 7|d a lb hits hard at the New Zealand public as well as New Zealand’s best customer—the United Kingdom,’’ said the chairman of the English Pottery and Glassware Agents’ Association (Mr J. Raine) today. “For 25 years, table crockery from the xUnited Kingdom has been duty free,” he said. “For 10 years, the local factory has had complete protection by the total prohibition of all cheaper grades al tableware from England below a fixed price level, thereby excluding from the New Zealand public more than onethird of normal requirements comprising everyday plain and decorated utility ware.” The cost of. an English utility set (cheapest allowed in) was £5 9s fid retail. Now it would be £6 16s fid. A brown English teapot was 8s 6d. Now it would be Ils, since the duty worked out at 47J per cent. . Bone china was not made in New Zealand, but the cheapest English bone china cups and saucers with gold edge would now carry a duty of approximately 20 per cent There was no justification for a duty on bone china as it was not likely to be made in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29264, 23 July 1960, Page 14
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