§ (1) Save as hereinafter provided, all duties of customs imposed on goods imported into India shall in respect of goods which are shown to the satisfaction of the 299 Customs Department to have been consigned from, and grown, produced, or manufactured in any part of the British Empire, other than the Dominions, be reduced in the case of a duty levied by value by not less than ten per cent. ad valorem or by at least one-third of the duty, whichever is the less, and in the case of a duty levied by weight or other measure of quantity the duty shall be reduced by an amount not less than as near as may be to ten per cent. ad valorem or by one-third of the duty, whichever is the less.
§ Provided that the provisions of this Subsection shall not apply to any duty of customs imposed mainly for revenue purposes, and in respect of which the Governor-General in his discretion certifies that the application of this Sub-section would involve a serious diminution of the revenue, and further provided that this Section shall not apply in respect of goods consigned from any part of the British Empire which does not extend to goods consigned from and grown, produced, or manufactured in India preferences to an extent, so far as may be, substantially not less than provided for in this Sub-section.
§ (2) So long as the United Kingdom accords to goods consigned from and grown, produced, or manufactured in India, preferences not less than those accorded to goods consigned from and grown, produced, or manufactured in any other part of the British Empire, the duties imposed on goods imported into India and consigned from and grown, produced, or manufactured in the United Kingdom shall not, exceed such level as will give United Kingdom producers full opportunity of reasonable competition on the basis of relative cost of economical and efficient production, provided that in the application of such principle special consideration may be given to the case of industry not fully established.
300§ (3) For the purpose of ascertaining whether any goods are, for the purpose of this Section, to be treated as grown, produced, or manufactured in any other part of the British Empire, the goods shall not be deemed to have been manufactured in a part of the British Empire unless such proportion of their value as is prescribed by rules made by the Governor-General in the exercise of his individual judgment is derived from materials grown or produced, or from work done, within a part of the British Empire.—[Sir H. Croft.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ 8.48 p.m.
§ Sir H. CROFTI beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time."
As we understood that, in view of the latitude which has been allowed in the Debate, there would be no Debate on these individual Clauses. I hope I may be permitted to say that it is not the intention of my hon. Friends to divide on more than one of the Clauses dealing with the question of Imperial Preference with India. Therefore, we would choose this particular Clause upon which to divide, in order to save time, as this Clause embodies a formula very similar to that adopted by the Dominions after the Ottawa Conference.
§ Question put, "That the Clause be read a Second time."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 33; Noes, 179.
301| Division No. 158.] | AYES. | [8.50 p.m. |
| Acland-Troyte, Lieut.-Colonel | Jones, Sir G. W. H. (Stoke New'gton) | Reid, David D. (County Down) |
| Applin, Lieut.-Col. Reginald V. K. | Keyes, Admiral Sir Roger | Remer, John R. |
| Bailey, Eric Alfred George | Knox, Sir Alfred | Rickards, George William |
| Balfour, George (Hampstead) | Levy, Thomas | Sanderson, Sir Frank Barnard |
| Broadbent, Colonel John | Lockwood, John C. (Hackney, C.) | Smiles, Lieut.-Col. Sir Walter D. |
| Carver, Major William H. | Lyons, Abraham Montagu | Taylor, Vice-Admiral E. A. (Pd'gt'n, S.) |
| Courtauld, Major John Sewell | Moreing, Adrian C. | Templeton, William P. |
| Craddock, Sir Reginald Henry | Nall, Sir Joseph | Wolmer, Rt. Hon. Viscount |
| Croft, Brigadier-General Sir H. | Oman, Sir Charles William C. | Wragg, Herbert |
| Emmott, Charles E. G. C. | Perkins, Walter R. D. | |
| Greene, William P. C. | Peto, Sir Basil E. (Devon, B'nstaple) | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| Gritten, W. G. Howard | Procter, Major Henry Adam | Mr. Thorp and Sir W. Wayland |
| NOES. | ||
| Adams, D. M. (Poplar, South) | Batey, Joseph | Christie, James Archibald |
| Adams, Samuel Vyvyan T. (Leeds. W.) | Beit, Sir Alfred L. | Clayton, Sir Christopher |
| Addison, Rt. Hon. Dr. Christopher | Boulton, W. W. | Cleary, J. J. |
| Agnew, Lieut.-Com. P. G. | Bower, Commander Robert Tatton | Collins, Rt. Hon. Sir Godfrey |
| Allen, Lt.-Col. J. Sandeman (B'k'nh'd) | Bowyer, Capt. Sir George E. W. | Colville, Lieut.-Colonel J. |
| Allen, William (Stoke-on-Trent) | Braithwaite, J. G. (Hillsborough) | Cook, Thomas A. |
| Anstruther-Gray, W. J. | Brass, Captain Sir William | Cooke, Douglas |
| Aske, Sir Robert William | Brown, C. W. E. (Notts., Mansfield) | Crooke, J. Smedley |
| Attlee, Clement Richard | Buchan-Hepburn, P. G. T. | Crookshank, Col. C. de Windt (Bootle) |
| Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Stanley | Burghley, Lord | Crookshank, Capt. H. C. (Gainsb'ro) |
| Balfour, Capt. Harold (I. of Thanet) | Butler, Richard Austen | Croom-Johnson, R. P. |
| Balniel, Lord | Caporn, Arthur Cecil | Culverwell, Cyril Tom |
| Banfield, John William | Cazalet, Thelma (Islington, E.) | Daggar, George |
| Barclay-Harvey, C. M. | Chapman, Col. R. (Houghton-le-Spring) | Davidson, Rt. Hon. J. C. C. |
| Davies, David L. (Pontypridd) | Leckle, J. A. | Rhys, Hon. Charles Arthur U. |
| Davies, Rhys John (Westhoughton) | Leech, Dr. J. W. | Roberts, Aled (Wrexham) |
| Denman, Hon. R. D. | Leonard, William | Ropner, Colonel L. |
| Denville, Alfred | Lewis, Oswald | Rosbotham, Sir Thomas |
| Duncan, James A. L. (Kensington, N.) | Liddall, Walter S. | Ross Taylor, Walter (Woodbridge) |
| Edwards, Charles | Lindsay, Kenneth (Kilmarnock) | Russell, Hamer Field (Sheffield, B'tside) |
| Elmley, Viscount | Lindsay, Noel Ker | Salmon, Sir Isidore |
| Foot, Isaac (Cornwall, Bodmin) | Little, Graham-, Sir Ernest | Salt, Edward W. |
| Fox, Sir Gifford | Llewellin, Major John J. | Shaw, Captain William T. (Forfar) |
| Fremantle, Sir Francis | Llewellyn-Jones, Frederick | Shepperson, Sir Ernest W. |
| Ganzoni, Sir John | Logan, David Gilbert | Simmonds, Oliver Edwin |
| Goff, Sir Park | Mabane, William | Smith, Louis W. (Sheffield, Hallam) |
| Graves, Marjorie | MacAndrew, Lt.-Col. C. G. (Partick) | Smith, Tom (Normanton) |
| Greenwood, Rt. Hon. Arthur | MacAndrew, Capt. J. O. (Ayr) | Somervell, Sir Donald |
| Grenfell, David Rees (Glamorgan) | Macdonald, Gordon (Ince) | Somerville, D. G. (Willesden, East) |
| Grenfell, E. C. (City of London) | MacDonald, Rt. Hon. J. R. (Seaham) | Southby, Commander Archibald R. J. |
| Grigg, Sir Edward | MacDonald, Malcolm (Bassetlaw) | Spencer, Captain Richard A. |
| Grimston, R. V. | McKeag, William | Spens, William Patrick |
| Groves, Thomas E. | McLean, Major Sir Alan | Stanley, Rt. Hon. Lord (Fylde) |
| Grundy, Thomas W. | Magnay, Thomas | Stanley, Rt. Hon. Oliver (W'morland) |
| Gunston, Captain D. W. | Makins, Brigadier-General Ernest | Stones, James |
| Guy, J. C. Morrison | Margesson, Capt. Rt. Hon. H. D. R. | Strauss, Edward A. |
| Harris, Sir Percy | Martin, Thomas B. | Strickland, Captain W. F. |
| Haslam, Henry (Horncastle) | Mayhew, Lieut.-Colonel John | Sueter, Rear-Admiral Sir Murray F. |
| Haslam, Sir John (Bolton) | Mills, Major J. D. (New Forest) | Sugden, Sir Wilfrid Hart |
| Heilgers, Captain F. F. A. | Milne, Charles | Sutcliffe, Harold |
| Heneage, Lieut.-Colonel Arthur P. | Milner, Major James | Tinker, John Joseph |
| Herbert, Major J. A. (Monmouth) | Molson, A. Hugh Elsdale | Turton, Robert Hugh |
| Holdsworth, Herbert | Morris-Jones, Dr. J. H. (Denbigh) | Wallace, Captain D. E. (Hornsey) |
| Hope, Capt. Hon. A. O. J. (Alton) | Morrison, G. A. (Scottish Univer'ties) | Ward, Lt.-Col. Sir A. L. (Hull) |
| Horsbrugh, Florence | Munro, Patrick | Ward, Irene Mary Bewick (Wallsend) |
| Hutchison, W. D. (Essex, Romf'd) | Nation, Brigadier-General J. J. H. | Ward, Sarah Adelaide (Cannock) |
| Inskip, Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas W. H. | Nicholson, Godfrey (Morpeth) | Warrender, Sir Victor A. G. |
| O'Neill. Rt. Hon. Sir Hugh | Weymouth, Viscount | |
| Jamieson, Douglas | Ormsby-Gore, Rt. Hn. William G. A. | |
| Janner, Barnett | Orr Ewing, I. L. | White, Henry Graham |
| Joel, Dudley J. Barnato | Owen, Major Goronwy | Whiteside, Borras Noel H. |
| Johnstone, Harcourt (S. Shields) | Parkinson, John Allen | Williams, David (Swansea, East) |
| Jones, Henry Haydn (Merioneth) | Patrick, Colin M. | Williams, Edward John (Ogmore) |
| Jones, Lewis (Swansea, West) | Pearson, William G. | Wills, Wilfrid D. |
| Jones, Morgan (Caerphilly) | Percy, Lord Eustace | Wilson, Clyde T. (West Toxteth) |
| Ker, J. Campbell | Petherick, M. | Worthington, Dr. John V. |
| Kerr, Hamilton W. | Pickthorn, K. W. M. | Young, Ernest J. (Middlesbrough, E.) |
| Kirkwood, David | Powell, Lieut.-Col. Evelyn G. H. | |
| Lamb, Sir Joseph Quinton | Pownall, Sir Assheton | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.— |
| Law, Sir Alfred | Radford, E. A. | Sir Walter Womersley and Major |
| Law, Richard K. (Hull, S.W.) | Ramsbotham, Herwald | George Davies. |
| Lawson, John James | Reed, Arthur C. (Exeter) |