§ 23. Mr. ROBINSONasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will state in which of the colonies, protectorates, and mandated territories there are export duties in force and in respect of what commodities; and whether, seeing that these duties tend to hinder the export of such commodities to the United Kingdom, he will bring this question before the forthcoming Imperial Conference at Ottawa?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)The list is a long one, and I will circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT. I have not received any evidence that export duties in force in any Colony hinder the export of their products to this country. If the question arose with regard to any particular duty, I should take the matter up direct with the Government of the Colony concerned.
§ Following is the list:
§ STATEMENT showing the Colonies etc. where export duties are charged and the goods on which such duties are chargeable.
§ Colony, Protectorate etc.: Goods subject to export duty.
§ Bahamas.—Slips and suckers of pineapples, sisal plants and wrecked goods.
§ Bermuda.—Malt liquor, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, alcohol, arrack, brandy, cordials, gin, peppermint water, whisky, rum and wine.
§ British Honduras.—Mahogany, cedar, logwood, chicle, coconuts, sponges, beer, porter and malted liquor, wine, potable spirits, bitters, cordials and liqueurs.
§ British Solomon Islands.—Copra, trocas shell and ivory nuts.
§ Cayman Islands.—Coconuts, spirits, wines and spirituous liquors.
§ Ceylon.—Cacao, thanks, elephants, tea, and whale oil.
§ Falkland Islands.—Wool, guano, whale and seal oil.
§ Federated Malay States.—Coconuts, copra, gambier, rubber, gutta-percha, pepper, sugar, tapioca, fish, various kinds and salted and dried fish, oysters, mother-of-pearl shell and beche-de-mer, various forest products including camphor and kepong bark, gold, tin, tin-ore and tin slag, scheelite, wolfram and all other metals and metalliferous ores, *china clay or Kaolin, *soda and potash felspar, *china-stone, horns, hides, skins, bones and tallow, elephants.
§ Fiji.—Trocas shell and beche-de-mer.
§ Gambia.—Ground-nuts.
§ Gold Coast.—Cocoa, kola nuts, diamonds, mahogany, cedar and Baku.
§ Gilbert and Ellice Islands.—Copra.
§ Grenada.—Cocoa, cotton, cotton seed, nutmegs, mace, limes and lime products, whale oil, whale guano.
§ Jamaica.—Spirits.
§ Leeward Islands, Antigua.—?Sugar.
§ *Export prohibited except under licence.
370§ Colony, Protectorate, etc.: Goods subject to export duty.
§ Dominica.—Horned cattle, bay leaves, essential oils, canoes and canoe shells, citrate of lime, citric acid, cocoa, coffee, charcoal, farina, manioc, fresh fruit including bananas and plantains, grape fruit, limes (green), oranges and tamarinds, fruit preserved including jams and jellies and limes pickled, ginger, hides and skins, lime juice, nuts and kernels including coconuts and copra, starches, syrup, tobacco, turtle-shell, vanilla and wood.
§ Montserrat.—Animals including asses, cattle, calves, horses, mules, pigs, sheep and goats, bay leaves, cart felloes, naves and spokes, cocoa, coffee, cotton, essential oils, hides and skins, lime juice, limes, molasses, onions, paine, peas, beans, poultry, starches, sugar, syrup and tamarinds.
§ St. Christopher and Nevis.—Cotton and coconuts.
§ Virgin Islands.—Animals including horses, asses, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and fowls, charcoal, building lime, sweet potatoes, yams and tanniers, bananas, eggs, hides, hard woods, cotton and wreck.
§ Malta.—Objects having an antiquarian, archaeological or artistic importance.
§ Mauritius.—Sugar, molasses, aloe fibre, goods exported from bond, excluding rum exports from the Excise Warehouse, goods landed in transit for other ports, excluding goods transhipped direct from vessel to vessel, goods landed from vessels in distress and re-shipped or transhipped.
§ New Hebrides.—Coffee, cocoa, cotton, copra, sandalwood, trocas and other shells, all other products.
§ North Borneo.—Agricultural produce including rice, coconuts, copra, sago, tobacco and coconut oil, jungle produce including timber, firewood and beeswax, live stock and animals, sea produce including turtle and fish dried and salted, birds nests, brass-ware, charcoal, hides and skins, ivory, all other goods except those on the free list.
371§ Colony, Protectorate, etc.: Goods subject to export duty.
§ Nigeria.—Cocoa, groundnuts, palm kernel oil, palm kernels, palm oil, tin and tin ores, wolfram, lead and lead ores, zinc, iron and iron ores, gold, other precious metals, all other minerals.
§ Northern Rhodesia.—Elephant ivory, hippo teeth and certain game trophies.
§ Palestine.—Antiquities.
§ St. Helena.—Fibre and tow.
§ St. Lucia.—Bay leaves, bay oil, charcoal, cocoa, coconut oil, coconuts, copra, firewood, hard wood, lime products, log wood, molasses and syrup, pimento wood, sugar, whale oil and fish oils.
§ St. Vincent.—Cotton, cotton linters, cotton seed, arrowroot, starches, cocoa, corn, peas, peanuts, copra, sugar, syrup, molasses, rum, horses, horned cattle, mules, asses, pigs, goats and sheep.
§ Seychelles.—Guano, mangrove bark, cinnamon bark, whale oil, prepared fertilisers, tortoise shell.
§ Sierra Leone.—Kola nuts, palm kernels, platinum, gold and other minerals.
§ Somaliland Protectorate.—Animals, beeswax, birds, bones, charcoal, coffee, condiments, curios, dyes, eggs, fat, feathers, fibre, fish and fish products, ghee, guano, gum resin, gums, hides, ivory, leather, sandals, precious stones, provisions, salt, shell, skins, stone, tallow, wood and timber.
§ Togoland under British Mandate.—Kola nuts.
§ Tonga.—Coin, copra and mares. Trinidad.—Asphalt.
§ Turks and Caicos Islands.—Sisal plants, spirits, wines and spirituous liquors.