HC Deb 29 September 1915 vol 74 c874

Resolution reported,

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

£ s. d.
Upon tobacco unmanufactured, namely:—
Containing 10 lbs. or more of moisture in every 100 lbs.
weight thereof—
Unstripped, the lb. 0 2
Stripped, the lb. 0 2
Upon tobacco manufactured, namely:—
Cigars, the lb 0 3 6
Cigarettes, the lb 0 2 10
Cavendish or Negrohead, the lb. 0 2 8
Cavendish or Negrohead, manufactured in bond, the lb. 0 2 4
Other manufactured tobacco, the lb. 0 2 4
Snuff containing more than 13 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. Weight thereof, the lb. 0 2
Snuff not containing more than 13 lbs. Of moisture in every 100 lbs. Weight thereof, the lb. 0 2 8
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."

Resolution agreed to.