FOREIGN POTATOES
BRITAIN IMPO'SES DUTY | ABNORMAL IMPORTATIONS / I-ritish Wireless. RUf'BY, July -<> | Under an add'tional import duty ordci which the Treasury has issued on the recommendation- of the Import Duties Advisory/'Committee, foreign potatoes imported intd Britain will be chargeable as from midnight on Wednesday with a duty of £1 pet- ton. In regard to new potatoes imported between November 1 and .Tune •50 (lip dutv will be 4s 8d per cwl. I liese rates are inclusive of the existing general duty of 10 per cent. The Advisory Committee shortly will submit, a report dealing with iiorticullural products generally, 'lhey made the recommendation regarding potatoes in advance. This report is owing to recent abnormal import.itions of potatoes having seriously •Heeled Pritish growers. i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21245, 27 July 1932, Page 11
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