TARIFF REGULATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 9

TARIFF REGULATION.

PREFERENTIAL TRADE. ■ Importers will be interested in the following regulation, under the Tariff Act, which appeared in " this week's Gazetta : — "ln every case ■where, pur-, suant to section six of the said Act/ tha full duty under the said Act is payable on any goods owing to the- nonproduction of the collector of an invoice \yith tho prescribed certificate written or printed thereon, and at the time of tho importation the importer alleges in writing, and the collector has reason to believe, that such goods are bona fide the produce or manufacture of some part of the British Dominions, and- that such non-produc-tion is duo to accident, the following provisions shall apply — (a) Any amount of duty so payable* in excess of the 'duty payable upon the like goods being tho produce or manufacture t of some part of the British Dominions, may be held by the collector at the port of impcrtation on deposit pending -the pro-j duction of an invoice with the prescribed certificate- written or printed thereon, (b) Such' deposit shall be returned to the importer if the invoice, >vith. certificate as aforesaid, is produced within six months from the date of payment 'of the deposit, but otherwise the same shall be applied as duty payable under the said Act, unless other action. is specially clireotTscL t>y tHo J&Tfnist-er of Customs."