HC Deb 25 July 1927 vol 209 cc863-4W
Mr. LUMLEY

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what were the amounts of the rebates on imports from Great Britain into each of the Colonies, Protectorates, and mandated territories which have a preferential tariff in favour of Great Britain for the latest available year?

1926. Mr. AMERY

(pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd May, 1927; col. 1294, Vol. 205]) supplies the following summary of the telegraphic replies which have been received from the various Governments concerned:—

Amount of rebate in

  1. (1) Bahamas, £80,713.
  2. (2) Barbados, £35,609.
  3. (3) Bermuda, £1,430.*
  4. (4) British Guiana, £195,502.†
  5. (5) British Honduras, $87,176.
  6. (6) Cyprus, £11,825.
  7. (7) Fiji, £89,178.‡
  8. (8) Gibraltar, £1,704 14s. 6d. §
  9. (9) Jamaica, £93,787.
  10. (10) Leeward Islands, £12,114. ║
  11. (11) Mauritius, Rs.15,691.
  12. (12) Northern Rhodesia, £12,462.¶
  13. (13) Trinidad, £91,020.
  14. (14) Windward Islands:

Grenada … £8,363
St. Lucia … £5,045
St. Vincent … £4,500
£17,908

*Figure given is in respect of latter half of 1926. Imperial Preference became operative in Bermuda on the 15th July, 1926.

† This figure does not include re-exports.

‡i.e., the difference in amount of the duty that would have been paid on goods from the United Kingdom under Fiji general tariff rate and that actually paid under British preference rate in 1926. It should be noted that the present British preference rate was general tariff rate previous to 1st January, 1922, but since that date, a higher general tariff rate applying to goods not produced or manufactured in the British Empire was imposed under the Customs Duties Ordinance of 1921. In 1921, imports into Fiji from the United Kingdom amounted to £368,129, from foreign countries £189,678, and in 1926 the corresponding figures were £444,047, and £160,794 respectively.

§ Preferential duties on Empire produce are applicable in Gibraltar only to wines, spirits, malt liquor and perfumed spirits; figure given is for period 1st August to 31st December, 1926.

║ Figure for the year ending 31st March, 1927.

¶ This figure takes no account of removal from Southern Rhodesia or the Union of South Africa under the Customs Agreement.

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