CUSTOMS TARIFF (No. 2).
No. 67 of 1938.
An Act relating to Duties of Customs.
[Assented to 10th December, 1938.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (No. 2) 1938.
(2.) Section one of the Customs Tariff 1938 is amended by omitting sub-section (2.).
(3.) The Customs
Tariff 1933–1936, as amended by the Customs
Tariff 1938, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1933–1938.
Amendment
of Tariff.
2. The
Schedule to the Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule to this
Act, and duties of Customs are hereby imposed in accordance with the
first-mentioned Schedule as amended by the last-mentioned Schedule.
Rates
of duty to be fixed by proclamation in respect of certain goods.
3.—(1.) Where, in respect of any goods covered by any
item or portion of an item in the Schedule to this Act, it is provided that,
upon a date to be fixed by Proclamation, an additional duty shall be imposed,
the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, fix a date on and after which the
additional duty in respect of those goods shall be imposed, and thereupon the
additional duty shall be imposed as from nine o’clock in the forenoon (reckoned
according to standard time in the Australian Capital Territory) on that date.
(2.) The issue of any Proclamation under this
section in respect of the additional duty on any goods covered by any item or
portion of an item in the Schedule to this Act shall not have the effect of
applying the Intermediate Tariff to those goods.
Time
of imposition of duties.
4.—(1.) The time of the imposition of the duties of
Customs imposed by this Act (not being duties of Customs the time of the
imposition of which is fixed by the next succeeding sub-section) is the
eighteenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, at nine
o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Australian
Capital Territory, and this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at
that time.
(2.) The time of the imposition of the duties of
Customs imposed by this Act and set out in the column headed “Intermediate
Tariff” in the Schedule to this Act, upon any goods which are specified in, and
are the produce or manufacture of any British or foreign country specified in,
a Proclamation which, after the commencement of this section, is issued under
section nine a of the Principal
Act applying, or varying the application of, the Intermediate Tariff, is the
time and date specified in that Proclamation.
THE
SCHEDULE
AMENDMENTS OF THE SCHEDULE TO THE PRINCIPAL
ACT. Sec. 2.
IMPORT DUTIES.
Tariff Items. | British Preferential Tariff. | Intermediate Tariff. | General Tariff. |
DIVISION XIII. PAPER AND STATIONERY. |
334. By omitting the
whole of paragraph (1) of sub-item (c)
and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
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“(1) Newsprinting, not glazed mill-glazed or
coated—
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(a) In rolls not less than 10 inches in width per ton
| Free | £4 | £4 |
And in respect of
sub-paragraph (a)—
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On and after a date
to be fixed by proclamation, an additional duty as follows:—
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When the imported
cost of newsprinting paper is—
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(i) Less than £15 per ton but not less than £14 per ton-------- per ton
| 5s. | 5s. | 5s. |
(ii) Less than £14 per ton but not less than £13 per ton-------- per ton
| 7s. 6d. | 7s. 6d. | 7s. 6d. |
(iii) Less than £13 per ton per
ton
| 10s. | 10s. | 10s. |
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (a)— |
(1) “Imported cost”,
in respect of any month in which newsprinting paper is entered for home
consumption, means the lowest cost, as determined by the Minister, of
importations into Australia (which in the opinion of the Minister are
representative importations), during the last preceding period of three
months in which such importations were made, of newsprinting paper admissible
under the British Preferential Tariff;
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(2) “Lowest cost”, in
relation to “imported cost”, means the lowest cost free on board at port of
export, together with insurance, external freight, exchange at telegraphic
transfer rate and primage duty under the Customs
Tariff (Primage Duties) 1934.
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(b) In sheets not less than 20 inches
by 25 inches or its equivalent per
ton
| Free | £4 | £4.” |