IMPORT DUTIES

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 18

IMPORT DUTIES

Requests to Commission By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, September 14. The Tariff Commission this morning heard-evidence on behalf of the New Zealand Milk Products, Ltd., who asked that the present duty on imported condensed milk, which is 25 per cent. British and 45 per cent, foreign, should be maintained. Further evidence was also heard on behalf of the Biscuit and Chocolate Confectionery Association, and on behalf of the cocoa ' manufacturers of Britain. A request was made that rhe duty on cocoa be reduced from 3d. to Id. a lb. The Otago Iron Rolling Mills, Ltd., requested that the importation of iron and steel bars from foreign countries be subjected to a duty of £3/10/- a ton, and from Australia and Canada £2 10/-, while those from Britain should be free, as at present. Air. H. F. Sincock, general manager of Donaghy’s F.ope and Twine Company. made a request for the retention of the present tariff with the inclusion of ropes 12in. in circumference and over, now on the free list. He claimed that an unfair tax had been placed on New Zealand manufacturers by the Unemployment Board subsidising by £4 per ton ail exported New Zealand fibre This meant that Australia. Great Britain. and other overseas buyers of fibre purchased f.p.b. at £4 per ton less than was possible for the New Zealand manufacturer.