IMPORTED CARS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1934, Page 10

IMPORTED CARS

ASSESSING THE DUTY

PREFERENCE TO BRITAIN

A complaint that Empire materials and manufactured Jirticles sent to Canada for inclusion in Canadian cars were regarded' as foreign for the purposes of assessing Customs duties was made by Mr. B. B. Gibbous, representing tho Colonial Motor Company, to the Minister of Customs (the Bt. Hon. J. G. Coaies) today. Mr. Gibbons said that motor-cars made in the United Kingdom and having not more than half of their works cost in foreign labour and material qualified for the British preferential duty of 15 per cent. Canadian cars having not more- than one-quarter of their works cost in other than Canadian labour and' material qualified for the British preferential duty of 16$ per cent. "Some Canadian ears," he said, "have been imported of which the engine is completely manufactured in England and sent to Canada for inclusion with tho car. This English engine is now not counted by the Customs Department as a portion cf the content which assists the car to qualify for the British preferential rate of duty. In other words, this engine, for the purposes of qualification, is treated as if it'were a foreign manufacture. "It is requested that in cases such as this British material may bo included to enable the car to meet tho 75 per cent, content of labour and material in the works cost which entitles the car to British preferential rate of duty. "To illustrate tho peculiarity of the present position it may bo stated that Now Zealand wool sent, to Canada for .upholstering a ear would be treated the same way as foreign parts in that it would bo counted towards the qualifications required for the British preferential rate of duty on the car entering Kcw Zealand." Mr. Goates said the representations would be considered.