RUBBER TIRES

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11684, 23 November 1923, Page 6

RUBBER TIRES

DEPRECIATED CURRENCY DUTY. PROVISION FOR COMPLAINTS. The Comptroller of Customs (Mr George Craig) notified that the Minister for Customs has been requested to determine whether or not depreciatedcurrency dnty should be imposed on the following class of goods, when imported from countries having depreciated currencies:—Rubber tyres, rubber tyring, and inner tubes of rubber for pneumatic tyres, n.e.i., which, are nob ait present subject to depreciated-cur-rency duty (except when the produce or manufacture of Germany, Austria, and Hungary). Before deciding the matter, the Minister invites any person who considers that the importation of such good without such duty being charged thereon docs prejudicially or injuriously affect his industry or business, or who is aggrieved on account of such duty not being charged on such goods, to make a complaint in the prescribed form. The Minister also invites any person who considers that tbe imposition of depreciated-currency _ duty on such goods would prejudicially or injuriously affect his industry or business, or who would be aggrieved by tbe imposition of each duty to state in the prescribed form any reasons he may desire to offer why such doty should not he imposed. Such oomplaint or statement will be regarded as strictly confidential. It must reach tbe offiaa of tbe Comptroller of Customs not later than one month from the date of the publication of tins notification in the New Zealand Gazette. Any complaint or statement already received in connection with the class or kind of goods referred to” above will receive full consideration before the matter is decided.