New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 84

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✨ Customs Duties Decisions

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 84

Minister's Decisions under Customs Duties Act.

Customs Department, Wellington, 6th October, 1920.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Minister of Customs has decided to interpret the Customs Duties Act in relation to the undermentioned articles as follows:—

NOTE.—“Not otherwise enumerated” appears as n.o.e.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the Dominion” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus † are revised decisions.

Record.	Goods.	Classification under Tariff, and Item No.	Rate of Duty.
			General Tariff.
3/439	A. and m.s., viz.:—
Castings in the rough for the manufacture of engineers’ limit-gauges	As a. and m.s. (482) .. ..	Free.
3/200	Artificers’ tools n.o.e., viz.:—
Hand guillotine (not being a machine) for cutting cardboard or strawboard, whatever be the length of the knife	} As artificers’ tools n.o.e. (359) ..	Free.
†3/250/3 14/23	Moulders’ boxes, for use in foundries ..
Bottles (containing perfumed spirit)—viz., obscured cast or moulded glass bottles, ground only at neck and stopper	As ordinary trade packages (324) ..	Free.
3/335/2	Copper “hollow wire” tubing in the rough, for Simplex lighting system, even if composed of several pieces joined together to make marketable lengths	As metal tubing in the rough (367)	Free.
3/421	Copy-holders, the “Fox,” for attachment to, and use in conjunction with, typewriters	As manufactured articles of metal n.o.e. (183)	20 per cent…
8/9/3	Cotton piece-goods, other than cotton nets, embossed with designs in dextrin, prepared starch or cellulose, paint, metallic paint, or similar materials, and not having otherwise undergone any second operation	As cotton piece-goods n.o.e. (286) ..	Free.
2/84	Dairying machinery, viz.:—
Speed-indicators, when imported with and being parts of cream-separating machines, whether attached thereto or otherwise	As parts of cream-separating machines (396)	Free.
4/95/5	Disinfectants, viz.:—
Naphthalene nest-eggs .. ..	As disinfectants (270) .. ..	Free.
8/9/2	Drapery n.o.e., viz.:—
Cotton nets, embossed with designs in dextrin, prepared starch or cellulose, paint, metallic paint, or similar materials	As drapery n.o.e. (79) .. ..	20 per cent…	10 per cent.
4/204	Educational apparatus and materials, viz.:—
Chemicals in sets, for carrying out the examination tests set by correspondence schools in practical chemistry, in quantities not exceeding two ounces for each sample of a solid and four fluid ounces for each sample of a solution or liquid	} As educational apparatus (441) ..	Free.
16/54	Penetrometers, for testing the consistency of asphalt, cement, or similar materials (on declaration that they have been specially imported and will be used solely for educational purposes in a school, college, or university, and that they will not be removed therefrom without payment of the duty)	As manufactured articles of metal n.o.e. (183)	20 per cent…
3/433	Gas copers, consisting of inner boiler of copper, outer casing and lid of galvanized iron, cast-iron gas-ring, and cast-iron legs	As machinery n.o.e. (182) .. ..	20 per cent…
3/438	Machinery n.o.e., viz.:—
Power-transmitter, the “Andrew-Ford,” for attachment to a motor-car, for utilizing the power of the engine to operate saws, lathes, concrete-mixers, or other machines	As scientific instruments (280) ..	Free.
16/54	Scientific instruments, viz.:—
Penetrometers, being instruments for testing the consistency of asphalt, cement, or similar materials	As surgical appliances (279) ..	Free.
12/5/15	Surgical appliances, viz.:—
X-ray gloves, of lead-rubber, covered with leather	As speed-indicators (419).. ..	Free ..	10 per cent.
16/53/2	Tachometer, electrically operated; the parts to be separately classified as follows:—

NOTE.—The following decisions are cancelled:—
“Moulders’ boxes, as manufactured articles of metal n.o.e.”
“Moulders’ core-boxes, as woodenware n.o.e.”
} (See page 245, 1914 edition.)
The decision on “Linotype ingot-moulds” (page 207, 1914 edition) still stands.
Minister’s Order D. 54.]
W. B. MONTGOMERY, Comptroller of Customs

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