VALUING EXPORTS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13739, 3 June 1913, Page 4

VALUING EXPORTS.

liE'H Kit SYSTLM [ r!;(;!vD

! Umtei; Prksh Association. ]

Wellington, -himo 2

A liot.t<'f sy«t;-iii of vain hi!!for Customs duty purposes li"-f- been nr^ofl by th-y W-.-'iliuuton Cli.-ijulkt of C'oinniorocv for fiomo time.

The |)iesi<!"!i! (Mr. A. E. Mabin) stutocl at to-dayV nuking that M■. W. B. Montgomery. Secretary oi" the Customs Department, had recently boon in Australia, and when ho returned he intimated that In1 purposed asking the Chamber to snpplv n sr-hedule of values of the chief articks of export «t tho lvojjrjuniii<jj (if each ieo;iib, in ihnld for tlmt lnoiitb. subject to alteration if I nriro.p varied, Mr. \h>.hiii pointed out ! the difficulties which arose under thosvptom. inasmuch ;■»<? exporters did not always put t:li" true f.o.b. value: then. I tno. it was difficult, fo put a. value- on nroduco sold under <"'.n tract for "forward' 'deli-civ. It Tni'..rlit be that gonds werolioiiifi f'''!rl nruii'c eonh'net at prico-s miit" difToront +-t cur^at v:\hu- : then th'oro wns tho ■diflTifiiit.v of vn.lul-ij.r ox-i>o-tp Ri-nt oy '■'o-ifi.'/TiiiiPnt, iMid h« nf>i?<fr>-;l /v 4 f'vl i'-o uiotlmds hy Mr. Mo:i(-";--vr^-v v.-oidd vot ovcroniw +lir>pr> r,')!'"-!-;!)!! f;. .At In'r. CMr. "*r."M:n'.c^ "■"'"•■'"■■•.h'"!i thr> pr>r>ir-tarv of f!nc.+.fjip.o 'v;l dpf'i'l"rl t'l \cop l'tl toiicif -ifh r—rt-jn flrms-v and rifi-k f-i.n.., 4, v r. lin ,>l v Hv ( > T)-Mnrt'>iPi't with ••'■■]•!ihl" ""ic'rl:1 '■'■■": the products in whicht!ioy do::lt.