HC Deb 22 April 1918 vol 105 cc805-6

Resolved, 11. That in lieu of the duties of customs now payable on tobacco imported into Great Britain or Ireland there shall on and after the twenty-third day of April nineteen hundred and eighteen, be charged the following duties (that is to say).—

Upon tobacco unmanufactured, viz:—

Containing 10 lbs. or more of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof—
Unstripped the pound 0 8 2
Stripped the pound 0 8
Containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof—
Unstripped the pound 0 9
Stripped the pound 0 9 1
Upon tobacco manufactured, viz:—
Cigars the pound 0 15 7
Cigarettes the pound 0 12 7
Cavendish or Negrohead the pound 0 11 10½
Cavendish or Negrohead manufactured in bond the pound 0 10
Other manufactured tobacco the pound 0 10
Snuff containing more than 13 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the pound 0 9
Snuff not containing more than 13 lbs of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the pound 0 11 10½

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.