§ 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:—
17Tariff 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 |