GERMAN GOODS.
ASSESSMENT OF DUTY. COMPLAINT OF DELAY. Dunedin, Nov. 16* The chairman of the Otago. Importers’ and Shippers’ Association telegraphed this morning to the Controller of Customs about, the inconvenience and consequent delay in settling the duty on German goods landed in Dunedin. asking “if it were not possible .to settle this question on a definite principle applicable to all cases so that importers may know how to assess they cost on disposed goods.” It is stated that on arrival of German shipments samples are taken and the Customs officer takes these round to the business houses to ascertain if similar goods are manufactured in England also to prepare prices. These are then submitted to Wellington, whence the importer is notified the duty rate- The result is a great delay in disposing of
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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134GERMAN GOODS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 284, 16 November 1923, Page 5
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