§ REPORT [20TH OCTOBER].
§ Resolutions reported,
§ 1. IMPERIAL PREFERENCES, SECURITY OF PREFERENCES GRANTED TO THE DOMINION OF CANADA, AND GENERAL PROVISION FOR GIVING EFFECT TO THE AGREEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AT THE IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE HELD AT OTTAWA.
§ "That it is expedient—
- (a) to make provision, more especially in connection with the Agreements made at the Imperial Economic Conference held at Ottawa and an Announcement made at that Conference on behalf of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, for Imperial preferences, whether as respects the whole or any part of the British Empire, and whether in respect of duties charged under any Resolutions of this House having for their object the fulfilment of the Agreements aforesaid or duties under the Import Duties Act, 1932, or any other duties (including provisions for the abolition or reduction by order of the Treasury, either generally or in the case of any country, of any preference for which provision is made by any Act of the present Session for giving effect to the Resolutions aforesaid);
- (b) to empower the Board of Trade, in the circumstances contemplated in the Agreement made between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Government in Canada, by order to prohibit the importation of goods of a class or description grown, produced, or manufactured in a foreign country;
- (c) to empower the Board of Trade, for the purpose of giving effect to certain provisions of the Agreements made between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Governments in the Commonwealth of Australia and in New Zealand respectively, to regulate the importation of certain frozen and chilled meat;
- (d) for the purpose of giving effect to certain of the provisions of the Agreement made between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Government in Canada to amend the law with respect to the importation of Canadian cattle;
- (e) to make such other provision as may appear necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving effect to any of the Agreements aforesaid."
§ 2. IMPOSITION OF DUTIES IN FULFILMENT OF AGREEMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AT THE IMPERIAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE HELD AT OTTAWA.
§ "That—
- (a) In fulfilment of the Agreements and Announcement made at the Imperial Economic Conference held at Ottawa, there shall he charged on the importation into the United Kingdom of goods of the classes and descriptions specified in the first column of the Table annexed to this Resolution the duties of customs respectively specified in the second column of that Table, such duties to be charged—
- (i) in the case of goods of a class or description in relation to which a period is specified in the third column of the said Table, from time to time for such period only as is so specified; and
- (ii) subject to the provisions as to emption from the general ad valorem duty contained in paragraph (a) of Subsection (2) of Section one of the Import Duties Act, 1932, and to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this Resolution, in addition to any other duties of customs chargeable on the goods or on any of the components thereof;
- (b) As from the date on which any goods become chargeable with duty under paragraph (a) of this Resolution, any order made under the Import Duties Act, 1932, shall, if and so far as it imposes additional duties on those goods, cease to have effect, but additional duties may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, be imposed on any goods for the time being chargeable with duty under paragraph (a) of this Resolution as if that duty were the general ad valorem duty.
- (c) The Treasury shall from time to time make such orders for the removal or reduction, or for the re-imposition or increase (within the rates specified in the said Table), of the duties chargeable under paragraph (a) of this Resolution as may be required in order to secure that the said duties shall be chargeable in respect of any class or description of goods only to such extent as may he requisite in order to comply with the provisions of the said Agreements for the time being in force and with the said Announcement.
| Class of description of Goods. | Rate of Duty. | Period during which Duty charged. |
| Wheat in grain | 2s. per qtr. of 480 lbs. | |
| Maize, flat white | 10 per cent. | |
| Rice, husked, including cargo rice and cleaned rice whole, but not including broken rice | 1d. per lb. | |
| Butter | 15s. per cwt. | |
| Cheese | 15 per cent. | |
| Eggs in shell— | ||
| (a) not exceeding 14 lbs. In weight per great hundred | 1s. per great hundred. | |
| (b) over lbs. but not exceeding 17 lbs. in weight per great hundred | 1s. 6d. per great hundred. | |
| (c) over 17 lbs. in weight per great hundred | 1s. 9d. per great hundred. | |
| Condensed Milk. whole— | ||
| Not sweetened | 6s. per cwt. | |
| Sweetened or slightly sweetened | 5s. per cwt. | |
| Milk powder and other preserved milk excluding condensed milk— | ||
| Not sweetened | 6s. per cwt. | |
| Fresh or raw fruit— | ||
| Apples | 4s. 6d. per cwt. | |
| Pears | 4s. 6d. per cwt. | |
| Bananas | 2s. 6d. per cwt. | |
| Oranges | 3s. 6d. per cwt. | April 1 to Nov. 30. |
| Grapefruit | 5s. per cwt. | |
| Grapes, other than hothouse | 1½. Per lb. | Feb. 1 to June 30. |
| Peaches and Nectarines | 14s. per cwt. | Dec. 1 to Mar. 31. |
| Plums | 9s. 4d. per cwt. | Dec. 1 to Mar. 31. |
| Preserved or dried fruits— | ||
| Apples preserved in syrup | 3s. 6d. per cwt. | |
| Figs and fig cake, plums (commonly called French plums and prunelloes), plums not otherwise described, prunes and raisins | 3s.6d. per cwt. |