ANOTHER 50 P.C.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 300, 18 December 1931, Page 1

ANOTHER 50 P.C.

Further Duties Imposed on Imports. NEW BRITISH ORDER. United Press Assn.—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 18, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, December 17. A third list of new duties under the Abnormal Importations Act was issued to-night by the Board of Trade. The order imposes a 50 per cent duty ad valorem as from Saturday next upon sixteen classes of articles, including the following: Illuminating glassware used for artificial light, cameras, photographic plates and films other than cinematograph films, wireless valves and parts thereof, electric filament lamps and fittings, grass mowers, manufactures, wholly or partly, cotton of the following descriptions: tissues in piece, flags, handkerchiefs, shawls and household cotton goods, including table and bed linen and towels, cordage, ropes, and twine under a quarter of an inch in diameter, except such as is used in packing other goods, complete, or incomplete, garments other than underwear and hosiery, complete or incomplete, but including stockings and hose for men, women and children, and shaped material for making into such garments, or hosiery, citric acid, tartaric acid and cream of tartar, aluminium, sulphate of ammonia, alum, soda and potash, ammonium chloride, and loaded and empty cartridge cases for sporting firearms. The latest category of imports affected is. that relating to complete and incomplete garments. The average value of the items included in this imported monthly last year was £815,000, and during the last two k months this figure has increased to £924,000 in October and £1,023,000 in November. Almost as large is the cotton manufacture category, goods in which were last year imported to a monthly value of £684,000. In both October and November last the figure increased to £912,000, when the month’s quantity of cotton goods jumped from under 7,000,000 square yards a month last year to nearly 10,000,000 square yards. The value of imports last month .of other categories included in the order, was:— £ Photographic film 88,000 Electric lamps 97,000 Electric light fittings 95,000 Cordage, etc 61,000 Citric acid 65,000