§ Sir L. Ropnerasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will consider some relaxation of the Customs regulations governing the quantities in which cigarettes may be shipped as duty-free stores on board foreign-going ships.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterI am satisfied that the existing Customs regulations allow sufficient supplies of duty-free cigarettes to meet the personal requirements of passengers and crews during voyages overseas. There is, however, one relaxation which it will be possible to make in the near future. In order to keep the practice in relation to foodstuffs and other ships' stores on a uni-74W of these pools were paying an average weekly amount of duty of less than £200, how many of less than £100, and how many of less than £50, on each of these dates.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe information requested in shown in the following table:
form basis, it has been necessary during the period of food rationing to restrict supplies for certain foreign-registered ships to quantities sufficient to last to their first foreign port of call. With the end of rationing it will be possible to lift this restriction, and all foreign-going ships will again be allowed stores sufficient to cover the whole of their contemplated voyage as they were before the war.