HC Deb 11 April 1927 vol 205 cc127-8

Resolved,

"That in lieu of the Customs duties now chargeable on tobacco imported into Great Britain or Northern Ireland there shall on and after the twelfth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, be charged the following 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 pound 8 10
Stripped the pound 8 10½
Containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof—
Unstripped the pound 9
Stripped the pound 9 10
Upon tobacco manufactured, namely:—
Cigars the pound 16 10
Cigarettes the pound 13 7
Cavendish or Negrohead pound 12 10
Cavendish or Negrohead manufactured in bond the pound 11
Other manufactured tobacco the pound 11
Snuff containing more than 13 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the pound 10 7
Snuff not containing more than 13 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the pound 12 10
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."