HC Deb 04 July 1906 vol 160 cc15-7
MR. ARMITAGE (Leeds, Central)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will give the present duties on machinery and bar iron going into Italy from Germany and the United Kingdom.

Tariff Classification. Tariff rates of duty. English equivalents
Lire. s. d.
Steam engines, fixed, without boilers 100 kilogs. 12.00 Cwt. 4 10½
Steam engines, semi-fixed, with boilers 100 kilogs. 12.00 Cwt 4 10½
Hot air, compressed air, gas, and petroleum motors and rotary motors 100 kilogs, 12.00 Cwt 4 10½
Boilers:
Multitubular 100 kilogs, 14.00 Cwt 5 8¼
Others, including boilers of the Galloway system 100 kilogs 12.00 Cwt 4 10½
Hydraulic, and water or wind motors (turbines, hydraulic wheels, pulso-meters, pumps and elevators, presses. accumulators, lifts, hydraulic lifts, & c) 100 kilogs 10.00 Cwt 4 0¾
Locomotives, without tenders 100 kilogs 14.00 Cwt 5 8¼
Traction engines, locomobiles 100 kilogs 12.00 Cwt 4 10½
Marine machinery 100 kilogs 12.00 Cwt 4 10½
Haymaking machinery 100 kilogs 4.00 Cwt 1 7½
Agricultural machinery, other 100 kilogs 9.00 Cwt 3 8
Spinning machines 100 kilogs 6.00 Cwt 2 5¼
Machines and looms for weaving 100 kilogs 6.00 Cwt 2 5¼
Looms for hosiery 100 kilogs 7.00 Cwt 2 10¼
Machine tools for working wood and metal (saws, planes, lathes, drills, machines for wirework, & c,) 100 kilogs 9.00 Cwt 3 8
Sewing machines, with or without stands 100 kilogs 25.00 Cwt 10 2
Knitting machines (manual or power) with or without stands 100 kilogs 8.00 Cwt 3 3
Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of paper and of paper pulps 100 kilogs 6.00 Cwt 2 5¼
Milling machines 100 kilogs 6.00 Cwt 2 5¼
Pumps for liquid manure with galvanised pipes 100 kilogs 4.00 Cwt 1 7½
Machinery other than dynamo-electrical not especially mentioned 100 kilogs 10.00 Cwt 4 0¾
Detached parts of machines other than dynamo-electrical 100 kilogs 30 00 Cwt 12 2
Of sewing machines: 100 kilogs 30,00 Cwt 12 2
Of other machines:
Iron or steel parts of the machines mentioned in the footnote,* also cards without card furniture, and Jacquard and ratiere mechanism, imported separately 100 kilogs 10.00 Cwt 4 0¾
Aluminium parts of machines 100 kilogs 20.00 Cwt 8 1½
Scrapers (doctors) of steel or composition metal for textile printing machine 100 kilogs 7.00 Cwt 2 10¼
Other parts of machines 100 kilogs 11.00 Cwt 4 5¾

(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) The following statement gives the particulars asked for. Imports into Italy from Germany and United Kingdom pay the same rates of duty:—

Tariff classification. Tariff rates of duty. English equivalents.
Lire s. d.
Apparatus for heating, refining, distilling, & c. 100 kilogs. 18.00 Cwt 7 7¾
Dynamo-electric machines:
Weighing up to 1,000 kilogs. 100 kilogs. 25,00 Cwt 10 2
Weighing more than 1,000 kilogs. 100 kilogs. 16.00 Cwt 6 6
Transformers, with or without oil 100 kilogs. 25.00 Cwt 10 2
The undermentioned machines* actuated by dynamos and forming a. single entity with them (provided that the motor does not predominate in weight in the entire article):
Weighing up to 1,000 kilogs. 100 kilogs. 19.00 Cwt 7 8½
Weighing more than 1,000 kilogs. 100 kilogs. 13.00 Cwt 5 3½
Tension regulators, switches, resistances, interrupters, commutators, controllers, speed regulators, cut-offs, & c.:
Weighing up to 100 kilogs. 100 kilogs. 30.00 Cwt 12 2
Weighing more than 100 kilogs. 100 kilogs. 25.00 Cwt 10 2
Detached parts of dynamo-electric machines and of transformers:
Of iron or steel and weighing more than 1,000 kilogs. each 100 kilogs. 16.00 Cwt 6 6
Other 100 kilogs. 25.00 Cwt 10 2
Accumulators and metallic parts thereof 100 kilogs. 16.00 Cwt 6 6
Iron and steel, hammered or rolled in bars of any section, including bars of tempered steel:
Not having in section any diameter or side of seven millimetres or less 100 kilogs. 6.00 Cwt 2 5¼
Having in section one or more sides or diameters of seven millimetres or less, but exceeding five millimeters 100 kilogs. 7.00 Cwt 2 10¼
Having in section one or more sides or diameters of five millimetres or less 100 kilogs. 9.00 Cwt 3 8