HC Deb 21 September 1915 vol 74 cc423-4

3. Resolved, That in addition to the duties of Customs now payable on coffee imported into Great Britain or Ireland there shall, on and after the twenty-second day of September, nineteen hundred and fifteen, until the first day of August, nineteen hundred and sixteen, be charged the following additional duties, that is to say:—

£ s. d.
Coffee (not kiln-dried, roasted or ground), the cwt. 0 7 0
Coffee, kiln-dried, roasted or ground, the lb. 0 0 1
and so in proportion for any less quantity.

And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913.—[The Chancellor of the Exchequer.]

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