EMERGENCY MEASURE
PEOYISIONS OF BILL
DUTIES UP TO 100 PER CENT,
EMPIRE GOODS EXEMPT
(British Official Wireless.) (Received 19th November, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 18th November. The Abnormal Importation Customs Duties Bill, foreshadowed by Mr. Walter Runciman's speech in the House of Commons on Monday, gives the Board of Trade, with the concurrence of the Treasury, power to apply the Act to manufactured and mainly manufactured goods set out in Class 3 of the Board's returns, if the Board is satisfied that they are being imported in abnormal quantities. The order is to be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and shall cease to have effect on the expiration of a period of twenty-eight days from the day on which it was made unless previously approved by resolution of the House of Commons. It provides that duties may be charged on such articles not exceeding 100 per cent, of value of the articles. No articles which are Em-pire-produced shall be chargeable with the duty under the Act. Duty under the Act shall be charged in addition to any other duties chargeable on the article. The Act does not apply to certain articles imported for exportation after transit through the United Kingdom or by way of transhipment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 13
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211EMERGENCY MEASURE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 13
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