Imposition of Duties (Confirmation of Orders)(No. 2) Bill, 1950

Public bill · Government · Introduced

The Bill would confirm ten government orders made between October 1949 and April 1950 under emergency powers, mainly changing customs duties on imported goods. It would extend existing duties to component and partly manufactured goods, raise charges on certain woollen clothing, files, hacksaw blades and hardboard, and introduce duties on some low-priced cotton shirts and wider elastics. It would also narrow an exemption for proofed lining cloth and remove certain unassembled wireless parts, resistances and condensers from duty. The measures mattered because they changed the cost and availability of a range of imported clothing, manufacturing materials, tools and electrical goods, while giving the earlier emergency orders lasting legal effect.

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