SILK DUTIES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 6

SILK DUTIES

DEFENDED BY MR. CHURCHILL

DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF

COMMONS^

.(REDTER'S TELEGRAM.')

(Received 20th May, 2^30 p.m.)

. LONDON, 19th May. ■ Mr. Winston Churchill, who presided at a meeting held at the Treasury of the Committee of the silk trade interests to consider the proposed-scale of silk duties, was bombarded in the' House of Commons by questions, on the subject. He told one questioner that the duty would not be charged on any silk or artificial silk articles worn by passengers entering the country, and that reasonable allowances would be made in regard. to worn articles in personal luggage, i ■ Miss Wilkinson,(Labour), pointed out that this would benefit.the woman,who was 1 able to buy her dresses abroad. Mr.- Churchill, replying to another question, said that wood .pulp was only liable for duty when converted into artificial silk. He did not think that the tariff would in-any^way jaffect the free import of raw materiaLfoi- paper. Mr., Churchill referred 'another questioner,' who said .that artificial silk made from cellulose acetate was. already taxed under German, reparations, to the Safeguarding of Industries Act. He also quoted the latter Act to another, questioner, who had been' informed that where articles were liable to the new import duties they were also liable to other duties, and that these duties would be merged and the greater duty only charged.