1458
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

Import Duties Act of United Kingdom.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 18th May, 1933.

WITH reference to the third paragraph of the notification published in the Gazette of 3rd March, 1932, at page 441 and to the notification published in the Gazette of 2nd March, 1933, at page 379, regarding the form of invoice and certificate of origin required to be produced to the Customs authorities in the United Kingdom in order that manufactured goods (other than butter, cheese, fruit, and other primary produce) exported from New Zealand may be entitled to the benefits of the exemptions from duty contained in the Import Duties Act of the United Kingdom, it is hereby notified for public information that, according to advice received by the Customs Department, the classes of manufactured goods set out in the Schedule hereto will not be deemed to have been manufactured in the British Empire, for the purpose of the said exemptions, unless at least 50 per cent. of their value is the result of labour within the British Empire, or is derived from materials grown or produced within the British Empire.

The above-mentioned notification, gazetted on 2nd March, 1933, is hereby cancelled.

GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.

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SCHEDULE.

List of manufactured goods which in order to qualify for Imperial preference on entry into the United Kingdom must contain a minimum of 50 per cent. of Empire materials and labour :—

Pottery and all other clay products.

Glass and glassware (excluding optical glass and optical elements whether finished or not, microscopes, field and opera glasses, theodolites, sextants, spectrosopes and other optical instruments and component parts thereof) :—

Plate and sheet glass, whether bevelled, silvered, or otherwise finished or not.

Illuminating glassware.

Domestic glassware, including cooking utensils, table glassware, toilet glassware and ornamental glassware.

Glass bottles and glass jars, including glass stoppers.

Beakers, flasks, burettes, measuring cylinders, thermometers, tubing and other scientific glassware and lamp-blown ware.

Furniture, made wholly or mainly of metal, of the following descriptions :—

(i) Tables, bedsteads, wire mattresses, stands, desks and counters.

(ii) Chairs, stools and seats.

(iii) Bookcases and bookshelves.

(iv) Cabinets, safes, cash and deed boxes, drawers and cupboards.

(v) Shelving, storage bins and storage racks.

(vi) Office letter racks and letter trays.

(vii) Lockers.

(viii) Parts of any of the above-named articles.

Hollow-ware of iron or steel (including tinned plate).

Baths of iron or steel.

Metal door and window frames and casements.

Stoves, grates and ranges for domestic cooking or heating and parts and fittings therefor.

Iron and steel products of the following descriptions :—

(i) Tubes, pipes and pipe and tube fittings of all kinds.

(ii) Railway and tramway construction material of all kinds

(iii) Springs.

(iv) Wire, wire netting, wire nails, and cable and rope (except insulated telephone and telegraph cables).

(v) Screws (except screws for wood, other than screw hooks, screw rings and screw knobs), nails, tacks, studs and spikes.

(vi) Rivets and washers.

(vii) Bolts and nuts.

(viii) Anchors and grapnels and parts thereof, chains and ships’ cables.

(ix) Screws for wood (other than screw hooks, screw rings and screw knobs) whether wholly of iron or steel, or of iron or steel coated or plated with some other metal or substance.

(x) Wagons for use on railways and parts of such wagons.

The following articles manufactured wholly or partly of the metals aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, tin, zinc and alloys containing any of these metals :—

Sheets and strip, rods, plates, angles, shapes and sections, wire, tubes, foil and hollow-ware.

Screws for wood of brass, copper or any alloy containing copper, whether coated with any other metal or other substance or not.

Cutlery :—

(i) Knives with one or more blades made wholly or partly of steel or iron.

(ii) Scissors, including tailors’ shears and secateurs, made wholly or partly of steel or iron.

(iii) Razors, including safety-razors and blades therefor.

(iv) Hair clippers.

(v) Carving forks.

(vi) Knife sharpeners, wholly or partly of steel.

(vii) Component parts of or blanks for any of the above-mentioned articles.

Locks, padlocks, keys, bolts, latches, hasps and hinges of metal.

Needles (including hosiery latch needles) and pins.

Implements and tools and parts thereof.

Galvanometers, pyrometers, electrosopes, barometers, analytical and other precision balances, and other scientific instruments and component parts thereof, gauges and measuring instruments of precision of the types used in engineering machine shops and viewing rooms, whether for use in such shops or rooms or not (but not including microscopes, field and opera glasses, theodolites, sextants, spectrosopes and other optical instruments and component parts thereof).

Unexposed sensitised photographic paper, cloth, plates and film (including cinematograph-film) and spools therefor.

Electrical goods including :—

Electric wires and cables, insulated.

Telegraph and telephone apparatus.

Wireless apparatus.

Electric carbons.

Electric lighting appliances and fittings.

Batteries and accumulators.

Electric bell apparatus.

Electric cooking and heating apparatus.

Electric meters.

Parts of, and accessories to, the above.

Wireless valves and similar rectifiers and vacuum tubes.

Ignition magnetos and permanent magnets.

Arc-lamp carbons and amorphous carbon electrodes.

Machinery and parts thereof (including ball bearings, roller bearings, and parts thereof).

Twine of the following description :—

Hard fibre singles.

Boots, bootees, shoes, overshoes, slippers and sandals of all descriptions and of whatever material, finished or unfinished, and shaped parts and laces therefor.

Paints, painters’ enamels, lacquers, varnishes, and printers inks.

Distempers, whether dry or not.

Pigments and extenders (whether dry or with oil or other medium) other than the following :—Natural dyes, synthetic organic dyestuffs, colours and colouring matters; dry earth colours, barytes, silica, graphite and carbon black from natural gas.

Saddlery and harness (including horse boots) wholly or partly of leather.

Trunks, bags, wallets, pouches and other receptacles made wholly or partly of leather or material resembling leather, whether fitted or not.

Transparent cellulose wrapping.

Locomotives and parts thereof.

Aircraft and parts thereof.

Cycles (other than motor-cycles) and parts and accessories thereof.

Perambulators and mailcarts and parts thereof.

Motor-cars, including motor-bicycles and motor-tricycles; accessories and component parts of motor-cars, motor-bicycles and motor-tricycles.

Manufactures wholly or partly of rubber, balata or gutta-percha (including vulcanite and ebonite).

Arms and ammunition :—

(i) Sporting guns, sporting rifles and sporting carbines and parts thereof.

(ii) Military rifles and military carbines and parts thereof.

(iii) Miniature rifles and carbines and cadet rifles and carbines and parts thereof.

(iv) Air-guns and air-rifles and air-pistols and parts thereof.

(v) Revolvers and pistols and parts thereof.

(vi) Loaded cartridges and empty cartridge cases.

Toilet preparations (excluding essential oils) of the following descriptions :—

Toilet soap.

Tooth-paste or powder and liquid preparations for dental purposes and mouth-washes.

Toilet paste or powder.

Toilet cream.

Hair dyes.

Scented sachets.

Lipstick, rouge and grease paint.