CUSTOMS TARIFF.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14483, 15 August 1917, Page 6

CUSTOMS TARIFF.

FURTHER RESOLUTIONS

LOnIIED J^Kbaei AfebUCiA XlO'ti. 1

W SBsingion, August 14. Resolutions were agreed to by the House of Itepresentativea this afternoon authorising the following preferential surtax on tie undermentioned goods not being the produce or manufacturo of the i3ritish Dominions: —.

All _ articles n.o.e. made of textile, felt, or other piece goods or of any combination of some wholly or partially made •up or manufactured and not being apparel or clothing either wholly or partially made up; drapery n.0.e.; flags; • haberdashery n.0.e.; lace and laces -n.0.e.; ribbons and crape, all kinds; ruga, woollen, cotton, opossum or other; textile piece goods n.0.e., including &ilks, satins, velvets; plushes H-o.e. composed of pure ailk or of silk Snixed with any other material or subStance whatsoever; umbrellas, parasols and sunshades; yarns n.0.e., 10 per cent ad valorem.

'Apparel and ready-made clothipg n.0.e.; feathers, ornamental (including ostrich); artificial flowers, leaves and Sprays; furs and fur trimmings; hats of all kinds (including straw hats), also caps; hosiery n.0.e.; millinery of all kinds, including trimmed hats, caps and bonnets, 12} per cent ad valorem. ■

•Apparel made to the order or measurement of residents in New Zealand and intended for the individual use of such residents whether imported by the residents, themselves .-or otherwise; apparel, viz., volunteer clothing made to measurements sent from New Zealand. 20 per cent, ad valorem.

It was also resolved that the rate of duty on cigars, snufi and cigarettes manufactured in New Zealand, as imposed by a resolution from the Committee of Ways and Means dated August Ist, 1917, be revoked as from that date, and that duty be payable on cigars, snuff and cigarettes manufactured in New Zealand if so manufactured and entered for home consumption after August Ist, 1917, as follows:—(a) on ..OTgars and snuff. 4e the !b; (a) on cigarettes if manufactured by machinery, 3s 6d the lb; (c) on cigarettes if made by rand 2s the lb; provided that if the manufacture of cigars and snuff containing less than 75 per cent, of tobacco grown in New Zealand becomes, in the opinion of the Minister, at any time hereafter detrimental to the revenue, the Governor-General may by Qrder-in-Council fix the maximum quantity of such cigars and snuff that snay be made annually h\ any..roairafacturer at the aforesaid rate of 4s ifoe lb/ and may prescribe a rate of fluty not exceeding 6s'6d'the lb upon all oigars end snuff made in excess of such Maximum quantity.