Customs Tariff (No. 4) 1957 (Cth)

CUSTOMS TARIFF (No. 4).

 

No. 84 of 1957.

An Act relating to Duties of Customs.

[Assented to 12th December, 1957.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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. 4) 1957.

(2.) The Customs Tariff 1933–1956, as amended by the Customs Tariff 1957, by the Customs Tariff (No. 2) 1957 and by the Customs Tariff (No. 3) 1957, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) Section one of the Customs Tariff (No. 3) 1957 is amended by omitting sub-section (4.).

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1933–1957.

 

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 imposed in accordance with the first-mentioned Schedule as amended by the last-mentioned Schedule.

Time of imposition of duties.

3.—(1.) The time of the imposition of the duties of Customs (not being duties of Customs the time of the imposition of which is fixed by either of the next two succeeding sub-sections) imposed by this Act is the eighteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, 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 in respect of which a date later than the eighteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, is specified in the Schedule to this Act is the later date so specified, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Australian Capital Territory.

(3.) 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 goods which are specified in, and are the produce or manufacture of a British or foreign country specified in, a Proclamation issued on or after the seventeenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, and prior to the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, applying or varying the application of the rates of duty so set out to those goods, is the time and date specified in that Proclamation.

Validation of Proclamations.

4.—(1.) Every Proclamation issued on or after the seventeenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, and prior to the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, applying or varying: the application of rates of duty set outin the column headed “Intermediate Tariff” in the Schedule to this Act to goods which are specified in, and are the produce or manufacture of a British or foreign country specified in, the Proclamation, and every Proclamation issued during that period revoking or varying, any such Proclamation, shall be deemed to have been lawfully made.

(2.) The power conferred; by sub-section (3) of section nine a of the Customs Tariff 1933–1957 to issue a Proclamation revoking or varying a Proclamation issued in pursuance of sub-section (1.) of that section includes a power to revoke or vary a Proclamation referred to in the last preceding sub-section.

 

THE SCHEDULE. Section 2.

 

Amendments of the Schedule to the Principal Act.

 

IMPORT DUTIES.

Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.	General Tariff.
DIVISION V.—TEXTILES, FELTS AND FURS, AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF, AND ATTIRE.
105. By adding a new sub-item (p) as follows:—
“(p) Tapes or webbings, woven, not exceeding 1 inch in width, with or without beading, for use in the manufacture of slide fasteners ad val.	15 per cent.	27½ per cent.	37½ per cent.”
DIVISION VI.—METALS AND MACHINERY.
174. By omitting paragraph (4) of sub-item (m) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(4) Boring, drilling, and milling machines combined, provided the drilling portion is not radial------------------------------------------ ad val.	Free	7½ per cent.	7½ per cent.”
By omitting paragraph (29) of sub-item (m) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(29) Milling machines n.e.i.------------------------------------- ad val.	Free	7½ per cent.	7½ per cent.”
By omitting paragraph (64) of sub-item (m) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(64) Boring machines, except cylinder reborers of the portable type-------------------------------------------------------------------- ad val.	Free	7½ per cent.	7½ per cent.”
By omitting paragraph (88) of sub-item (m) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(88) Drilling, boring and reaming machines, combined or separate, with mechanical feeds, with drilling capacity over 2¼ inches from the-solid-------------------------------------------------------------- ad val.	Free	7½ per cent.	7½ per cent.”
By omitting paragraph (106) of sub-item (m) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(106) Grinding machines, other, than the following types, viz.:—
Bearing
Belt grinders or finishing machines
Bench
Centre
Centreless
Combination cutting and grinding machines, electrically driven or driven by electric motors, for the reconditioning and renewing of automobile engine pistons and valves
Connecting rod (con-rod)
Crankshaft
Cutter
Cutter head
Cutting off
Cylinder reborers or grinders of the portable type

 

The Schedule—continued.

Import Duties—continued.

Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.	General Tariff.
Division VI.—Metals and Machinery—continued.
174.—continued.
(m)—continued.
“(106)—continued.
Cylindrical
Disc
Emery wheel stands
Flexible
Floor
Gulleting machines
Hob, with hand feeds
Internal
Knife
Knife jointers
Mortice chain
Oilstone
Piston
Piston grinding and finishing machines
Plain
Portable electric
Printing roll
Printing roll grinding and polishing machines
Saw
Surface
Swing frame
Tiptool grinding (or lapping)
Tool and cutter
Tool post
Turning and grinding, for semi-finished pistons
Twist drill
Universal
Valve
Valve facing and refacing, combined or separate, and
Automobile parts grinders (not otherwise excluded from this paragraph) not having hydraulic feeds, with capacities of less than 30 inches between centres, with or without automatic feeds to the table of the mechanical type----------------------------------------------- ad val.	Free	7½ per cent.	7½ per cent.”
By omitting paragraph (115) of sub-item (m) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(115) Honing and fine boring machines combined, with hydraulic feeds; fine boring machines with hydraulic feeds ----------- ad val.	Free	7½ per cent.	7½ per cent.”
176. By omitting from paragraph (2) of sub-item (c) the following:—
“grinding machines n.e.i.,”.
By adding to sub-item (c) a new paragraph (4) as follows:—
“(4) Grinding machines n.e.i.; honing machines; diesinking milling machines of the pantograph type------------------------ ad val.	27½ per cent.	37½per cent.	37½ per cent.”

 

The Schedule—continued.

Import Duties—continued.

Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.	General Tariff.
DIVISION IX.—DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
271. By omitting from sub-item (a) the following:—
“ammonium chloride,”.
By adding a new sub-item (c) as follows:—
“(c) Ammonium chloride------------------------------ ad val.	25 per cent.	40 per cent.	40 per cent.”
280. By omitting sub-item (k) and inserting in its stead the following sub-item:—
“(k) (1) Benzenehexachloride and preparations containing 5 per cent, or more of benzenehexachloride; paradichlorobenzene; pentachlorophenol; perchlorethylene; trichlorethylene (non-medicinal); 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and preparations containing 20 per cent. or more of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid; esters and salts of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, including preparations thereof containing the equivalent of 20 per cent, or more of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid------------------------------------------------- ad val.	25 per cent.	32½ per cent.	32½ per cent.
(2) Dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane and preparations containing 20 per cent. or more of dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane------------------------------------------- ad val.	22½ per cent.	30 per cent.	30 per cent.
(3) Methylchlorophenoxyacetic acid and preparations containing 20 per cent. or more of methylchlorophenoxyacetic acid; esters and salts of methylchlorophenoxyacetic acid, including preparations thereof containing the equivalent of 20 per cent. or more of methylchlorophenoxyacetic acid; 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and preparations containing 20 per cent. or more of 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid; esters and salts of 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, including preparations thereof containing the equivalent of 20 per cent. or more of 2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid ad val.	15 per cent.	22½ per cent.	22½ per cent.
(4) Hexachlorobenzene but not including such goods which but for this paragraph would be classified under item 269 (b)--------------------------------------- ad val.	7½ per cent.	20 per cent.	20 per cent.
(5) Chloropicrin----------------------------------- ad val.	12½ per cent	25 per cent.	25 per cent”
281. By omitting sub-item (k) and inserting in its stead the following sub-item:—
“(k) (1) Potassium carbonate, as prescribed by Departmental By-laws--------------------------------------------------	Free	Free	Free
(2) Potassium chlorate--------------------------- ad val.	45 per cent.	45 per cent.	45 per cent.”

 

The Schedule—continued.

Import Duties—continued.

Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.	General Tariff.
DIVISION XII.—HIDES, LEATHER, AND RUBBER.
331. By omitting sub-item (a) and inserting in its stead the following sub-item:—
“(a) Crude rubber; rubber waste; masticated rubber; powdered rubber; reclaimed rubber—
(1) As prescribed by Departmental By-laws
per lb.	2d.	2d.	2d.
(2) Other------------------------------------------------------- per lb.	4d.	4d.	4d.
And on and after 7th November, 1957
(a) Rubber (including synthetic rubber and rubber substitutes), being crude, masticated, powdered or reclaimed rubber or being rubber waste—
(1) As prescribed by Departmental By-laws
per lb.	2d.	2d.	2d.
(2) Other------------------------------------------------------- per lb.	4d.	4d.	4d.”
By omitting sub-item (d), and the note thereto, and inserting in their stead the following sub-item:—
“(d) Rubber latex—
(1) As prescribed by Departmental By-laws—on the rubber content------------------------------------------------------------ per lb.	2d.	2d.	2d.
(2) Other—
on the rubber content---------------------------- per lb.	4d.	4d.	4d.
And on and after 7th November, 1957
(d) Rubber latex (including synthetic rubber latex)—
(1) As prescribed by Departmental By-laws— on the rubber content---------------------------- per lb.	2d.	2d.	2d.
(2) Other—
on the rubber content---------------------------- per lb.	4d.	4d.	4d.”
332. By omitting sub-item (d) and inserting in its stead the following sub-item:—
“(d) Goods composed wholly or in part of synthetic rubber or of a rubber substitute shall be charged at the rate to which the goods would be liable if they were composed wholly or in part of rubber.”.
333. By omitting sub-item (a) and inserting in its stead the following sub-item:—
“(a) Pneumatic rubber tyres and tubes therefor, valved or unvalved, viz. :—
(1) Tyres each 2½ lb. weight or less; tubes each 1 lb. weight or less--------------------------------------------------------- per lb.	6d.	1s.	1s. 1½d.
or ad val.	15 per cent.	27½ per cent.	40 per cent.
whichever rate returns the higher duty.
(2) Tyres each exceeding 2½ lb. weight and tubes each exceeding 1 lb. weight, whether imported separately or incorporated in or forming part of any of the goods covered by items 177 (b), 354 (b), 359 (d) and 359 (h)------------------------- per lb.	6d.	1s. 6d.	1s. 11d.”

 

The Schedule—continued.

Import Duties—continued.

Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.	General Tariff.
DIVISION XIV.—VEHICLES.
352. By omitting from paragraph (2) of sub-item (a) the words:—
“Cycle Saddles and Saddle Covers (except of felt);” and inserting in their stead, the following:—
“cycle saddle covers (except of felt);”
By adding to sub-item (a) a new paragraph (5) as follows:—
“(5) Cycle saddles---------------------------------------- each	2s.	2s.	2s.
and ad val.	..	22½ per cent.	22½ per cent.”