HC Deb 10 September 1931 vol 256 cc408-9

Resolved, That in lieu of the full duties of customs now chargeable on tobacco imported into the United Kingdom there shall, on and after the eleventh day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, 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 lb. 9 6
Stripped the lb. 9
Containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof—
Unstripped the lb. 10 6
Stripped the lb. 10
Upon tobacco manufactured, viz.:—
Cigars the lb. 18 1
Cigarettes the lb. 14 7
Cavendish or Negrohead the lb. 13 9
Cavendish or Negrohead manufactured in bond the lb. 12 0
Other manufactured tobacco the lb. 12 0
Snuff—
Containing more than 13 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the lb. 11 4
Containing not more than 13 lbs. of moisture in every 100 lbs. weight thereof the lb. 13 9
and so on in proportion for any less quantity.

And it is hereby 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."