AUSTRALIAN TARIFF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16506, 25 November 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TARIFF

A GENERAL REVISION NEW ZEALAND NOT AFFECTED , 1 {Elec Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) CANBERRA, Nov. 24. Til the'House of Representatives, •. the Minister of Customs introduced a new Customs tariff involving many readjustments and changes. He ex-. | plained that the features ql the newtariff are a reduction in the duties on goods in general use, provision for •important new industries, increase in protection for national and essential I industries, preference on many items ■and practical steps towards interEmpire trade. The reductions m revenue, as a. result of -the new schedules, are expected to balance the I increases and no additional revenue is anticipated. , '-, • Amongst the recommendations ot the TaiTft' Board is one in the interests of the potato industry, viz., an increase in the duty from Is to 2a 6d • pex ewt. c The" new tariff operates. from » a 'to-morrow morning, but the premable contains the following proviso: "That, excepting by mutual agreement, or un- • til after six months' notice has been ' "erven to the Government of the DoI minion of New Zealand, nothing in '- tliis resolution shall affect any goods ihe production or manufacture of the Dominion of New Zealand entering the Commonwealth of Australia from the / Dominion of New Zealand."