THE SILK TAX.
BILL TO. BE MODIFIED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, LONDON, May 20. Mr. Churchill announced that, as the result of a series of conferences with various silk commercial interests he was proposing modifications in the scale of duties on natural and artificial, silk, for incorporation in the Finance Bill. He stated that the customs djity on natural silk waste would be reduced from Is 6d to Is per pound, and on raw; silk from 4s to 3s, on made-np articles from 331-3 to 10 per cent, where the value of the silk component does not exceed 20 per cent, of the value of the article, and 2 per cent, where it does not exceed 5 per cent. The duty on imported /artificial silk tissue remains. 42d pet pound..
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 May 1925, Page 16
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129THE SILK TAX. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 May 1925, Page 16
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