§ MR. HAROLD COXI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that, under the Indian tariff, workmen's tools and hand-driven machinery are, with some exceptions, subject to a 3 per cent. ad valorem tax; and whether it is part of the policy of His Majesty's Government that His Majesty's Indian subjects should be taxed upon the implements of their industry.
§ MR. BUCHANANTools and hand driven machinery with exceptions in favour of various classes of agricultural implements are on import liable to the general import duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem. The bulk of the tools used by workmen in India are not imported, and are therefore not affected.