§ 7. Mr. GILBERTasked the Under-Secretary of State for India what import duties are now imposed in India on British-manufactured goods; whether any export duties are imposed on Indian-manufactured goods exported from India; and, if so, on what goods and what are the duties?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe general rate of Customs duty on goods, manufactured and unmanufactured, British or foreign, imported into India is 15 per cent.ad valorem, but there arc numerous exceptions to this general rate. The only Indian-manufactured goods on which a Customs export duty is imposed are jute manufactures. The rates are Rs. 20 per ton on sacking (cloth, bags, twist, yarn, rope, and twine), and Rs. 32 per ton on Hessians and all other descriptions of jute manufactures not otherwise specified. A full list of the Customs duties leviable in India is contained in the Indian Tariff Schedules of which I will send a copy to the hon. Member, but certain small alterations to the rates there shown are proposed in the Finance Bill now before the Indian Legislature.