HC Deb 01 May 1918 vol 105 cc1593-4

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):

£ s. d.
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."

Resolution reported,