TARIFF

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 8 September 1926, Page 8

TARIFF

AMENDED SCHEDULE details of increases The amended schedule, as tentatively agreed to by the House is ns follows: Rubber tires, rubber tiring, and inner tubes of rubber for pneumatic tires, n.e.i.: British preferential tariff, 10 per cent ad valorem; intermediate tariff, 25 per cent act valorem; general tariff, 35 per cent ad valorem. (las engines and oil engines suited for use on cycles, motor vehicles, traction engines and tractors suited for use in warehouses or upon wharves and pavements: British tariff. 10 per cent ad valorem if entered and declared to be for use on cycles, motor vehicles, tract ion engines and tractors suited for use in warehouses or upon wharves and pavements; intermediate, 25 per cent'ad valorem; general, 35 per cent ad valorem. Bicycles, tricycles, and the like vehicles' including motor-cycles, also spindles, and other finished, partly finished. or machined parts of the same, n.e.i.; sidecars for motor-cycles: British tariff. 10 per cent ad valorem ; intermediate, 25 per cent ad valorem; general. 35 per cent ad valorem. Motor vehicles n.e.i. (including tractors driven by gas, oil, or electricity, suited for use in warehouses, or upon wharves and pavements): British tariff, 10 per cent ad valorem; and, in cases where such motor-vehicles are imported having bodies suited or designed for carrying passengers, an- additional duty (herein referred to as “body duty”) of 10 per cent ad valorem on any such vehicle (inclusive of the body): Provided that where the value of duty of any vehicle (inclusive of the body) exceeds £2OO the body duty shall be: On £2OO of such value, 10 per cent ad valorem; on the remainder of such value, 5 per cent ad valorem. Intermediate, 25 per cent ad valorem; and, in cases where such motor vehicles are imported having bodies suited or designed for carrying passengers, an additional duty (herein referred to as “body duty”) of 15 per cent ad valorem on any such vehicle (inclusive of tho body): Provided that where the value for duty of any vehicle (inclusive of the body) exceeds £2OO Die body duty shall be: On £2OO of such value, 15 per cent ad valorem; on the remainder of such value, 7 2- per cent, ad valorem. General, 35 per cent ad valorem ; and, in cases where such motor vehicles are imported having bodies suited or designed for carrying passengers, an 1 - additional duty (herein referred to as “body duty”) of 15 per cent ad valorem on any such vehicle (inclusive of the body): Provided that where the value for duty of any vehicle (inclusive of the body) exceeds £2OO the body duty shall be: On of such value, 15 per cent ad valorem ; on the remainder of such value, 7\ per cent ad valorem. When any body of a motor-vehicle suited or designed for carrying passengers is imported by itself or otherwise than as set out above, body duty shall bo payable and i.ho Minister shall determine the amount of such body duty. Tho body duty so payable shall, as nearly as may be, be equal to the amount of body duty that would have been payable if such body had been imported as part of and attached to a mo-tor-vehicle manufactured in the same country as the body. Where the Minister is of opinion that any body duty is being or is likely to be evaded or avoided by the importation of any motor-vehicles without engines, tires, or other component parts which, in the ordinary course of business, are usually imported therewith, the Minister may, at his discretion, require that body duty shall bo paid as if such engines, tires, or other component parts had been imported with such vehicles.

Speedometers, and mileage-recorders, suited for use on road-vehicles: British lari IT, 10 per cent ad valorem; intermediate, 25 per cent ad valorem ; general, 35 per cent ad valorem. * Timber, rflugh-sawn—(l) Ash; hickory, lanoowood, lignum vitae, and the timbers the botanical names of which are Swietenia speices, Juglans species, .Timipertis Virginia (red cedar), Quercus sessiliflora, Quercus pedunculata, Quercusalba, Quercus garryana and such other similar species or kinds of timbers as the Minister may from time to time approve: British tariff, free; intermediate, free; general, free; (2) n.e.i.: British, 2s per 100 super feet; intermediate. 2s per 100 super feet; intermediate, 2s per 100 super feet; general, 2s per 100 super feet.