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PART IV--THE CUSTOMS TARIFF (1956 REPRINT)
Amendments Effective from 20 July 1956

Page 36--Tariff item 268: delete item.
Substitute:
268 (1) Cardboard boxes, and paper boxes, complete; paper, and card-board, cut or shaped for wrappers, boxes, or other receptacles ... 20% 30% 30% .. 55%
(2) Drinking straws of any material; cardboard tubes ... 20% .. .. 40% 40%*
Vide the Customs Tariff (Pipes) Order 1956, the Trade Agreement with Australia (Pipes) Order 1956, the Trade Agreement with Canada (Pipes) Order 1956, and the Customs Surtax (Drinking Straws and Cardboard Tubes) Exemption Order 1956. (S.R. 1956/105, 1956/106, 1956/107, 1956/108.)

Pages 50 and 51--Tariff item 362: delete item.
Substitute:
362 Pipes, piping, tubes, and tubing (except coil pipes, and porcelain or earthenware tubes suited for electrical insulation purposes), viz.: (1) Cast iron, viz.:(a) Rain-water, soil, and similar ... Free .. .. 20%S 40%(b) N.e.i., viz.:(i) Centrifugally cast, not less than 4 in. but not exceeding 6 in. in nominal internal diameter 20% .. .. 35%S 40%(ii) Centrifugally cast, exceeding 6 in. but not exceeding 12 in. in nominal internal diameter Free 20% .. 20%S 40%(iii) Other kinds ... Free .. .. 20%S 40%(2) Lead or composition (per cwt.) ... Free 4s. 6d. .. 7s. S 7s.(3) Lead bends and traps ... 20% 30% 30% 50% 50%(4) Wood (even if coated or lined with other material), viz.:(a) Not less than 4 in. but less than 9 in. in nominal internal diameter 20% .. .. 35%S 40%(b) N.e.i. ... Free .. .. 20%S 20%(5) Wroughtiron or steel (even if coated or lined with other material), viz.:(a) Boiler tubes, flanged or unflanged ... Free .. .. 20%S 20%(b) Galvanized iron or steel flush pipes ... Free .. .. 20%S 20%(c) Pipes specially suited for use with steam ... Free .. .. 20%S 20%(d) N.e.i., viz.:(i) Unscrewed and not less than 4 in. but less than 9 in. in nominal internal diameter 20% .. .. 35%S 40%(ii) Other kinds ... Free .. .. 20%S 20%(6) N.e.i. ... Free .. .. 20%S 20%(7) Knees, bends, elbows, junction or inspection boxes including covers therefor, and other fittings, n.e.i., for pipes, piping, tubes, or tubing, viz.:(a) Of brass or other copper alloy ... 25% .. .. 45%S 45%(b) Of cast iron for rain-water, soil, and similar pipes ... 20% .. .. 35%S 40%(8) Knees, bends, elbows, junction or inspection boxes including covers therefor, and other fittings, n.e.i., other kinds, for any of the pipes, piping, tubes, or tubing classed under Tariff item 362 shall have the same classification under the Tariff as the pipes, piping, tubes, or tubing for which they are fittings.
Vide the Customs Tariff (Pipes) Order 1956, the Trade Agreement with Australia (Pipes) Order 1956, and the Trade Agreement with Canada (Pipes) Order 1956. (S.R. 1956/105, 1956/106, 1956/107.)

Page 51--Tariff item 363: delete sub-item 2.
Substitute:
363 (2) Stereotypes, electrotypes, matrices, half tone and line blocks ... 20% 30% .. .. 50%
Vide the Customs Surtax (Stereotypes) Exemption Order 1956. (S.R. 1956/109.)

"S" indicates--also applies to Switzerland.
*Plus surtax at the rate of nine-fortieths of the amount of duty.

Where it is indicated in the column headed "B.P." (British Preferential) that surtax is payable, such surtax relates only to goods being the produce or manufacture of Canada, Pakistan, Union of South Africa, India, and the Republic of Ireland.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of July 1956.
(Tariff Order 186)

J. P. D. JOHENSEN, Comptroller of Customs.

Decisions Under the Customs Acts
THE following decisions in interpretation of the Customs Tariff are published for public information:
PART I--DECISIONS IN INTERPRETATION OF THE TARIFF