✨ Tariff and Development Board Notice
Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 176—Public Inquiry into Import Duties and Import Licensing Affecting Certain Items of Cutlery, Spoons and Forks, and Associated Items, and Certain Handles for Cutlery
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The Tariff and Development Board has been requested by the Minister of Customs to inquire into and report on the import duties and import licensing affecting the goods listed in the Schedule to this notice. At the same time, and in accordance with a general reference from the Minister of Overseas Trade in this regard, the Board will consider any representations relating to the elimination of the margins by which, in respect of the goods under inquiry, the rates of duty on imports from Australia exceed those payable under the British Preferential Tariff.
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The Board will, in accordance with its normal procedures, conduct a public inquiry in the Boardroom, First Floor, Law Society Building, 26 Waring Taylor Street, Wellington, commencing at 10.30 a.m. Tuesday, 27 October 1970.
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Any person who wishes to tender evidence should lodge 12 copies of a typewritten statement of the evidence, to be presented under oath at the public inquiry, at the Board’s office no later than Friday, 9 October 1970. In preparing this evidence the “Notes for Guidance of Witnesses” prepared by the Board may be of assistance. Copies of these “Notes” may be obtained from the Board’s office.
Dated at Wellington this 28th day of July 1970.
O. A. BLACK, Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.
SCHEDULE
CUTLERY, FORKS, SPOONS, AND ASSOCIATED ITEMS
| Number | Description | BP | MFN | GEN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71.13 | Articles of goldsmiths’ or silversmiths’ wares and parts thereof, of precious metal or rolled precious metal, etc.: | |||
| 71.13.02 | Knives, forks, and spoons and parts thereof | Aul 22½% 27½% 22½% 27½% |
47½% 47½% |
60% 60% |
| 71.13.03 | Cutlery of this heading in canteens of any material | Aul | 47½% | 60% |
| Ex 71.13.09 | Other, viz, carving sets, ladles, poultry and meat grips, fish-servers, cake servers, sugar-tongs, sporks | 32½% | 50% | 65% |
| 82.04.83 | Hand tools: Cheesemakers’ curd knives |
Free | … | Free |
| 82.04.86 | Domestic and household articles having the character of hand tools: Knife sharpening steels |
Aul 22½% Can 27½% |
47½% | 60% |
| Ex 82.04.87 | Other, viz, pastry cutters and jaggers, cheese slicers, vegetable slicers, ice picks, vegetable mashers | Aul Can |
22½% 32½% |
50% |
| 82.09 | Knives with cutting blades, serrated or not (including pruning knives), other than knives falling within heading No. 82.06: | |||
| 82.09.01 | Beekeepers’ uncapping and honey; gardeners’ pruning or budding, and flax cutting, with non-folding blades | Free | Free | Free |
| 82.09.02 | Butchers’ and slaughtermen’s | Aul 22½% Can 32½% |
50% | 60% |
| 82.09.03 | Other tradesmen’s knives with non-folding blades | Free | 17½% | 30% |
| 82.09.04 | Other kinds: Kitchen and table |
Aul 22½° Can 27½% 22½% 27½% Can |
47½% 50% 50% 32½% |
60% 60% 60% |
| 82.09.05 | With folding blades | Aul | 22½% | 47½% |
| 82.09.09 | Other | Can | 22½% | 50% |
| 82.10 | Knife blades: | |||
| 82.10.01 | For kitchen and table knives | Aul Can |
22½% 27½% |
47½% |
| 82.10.09 | Other | |||
| 82.13 | Other articles of cutlery (for example, secateurs, hair clippers, butchers’ cleavers, paper knives); manicure and chiropody sets and appliances (including nail files): | |||
| 82.13.02 | Butchers’ cleavers and choppers Other, viz, mincing or chopping knives, paper knives, letter openers, erasing knives |
Aul Can |
Free 22½% 32½% |
17½% 50% |
| Ex 82.13.19 | ||||
| 82.14 | Spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, ladles, and similar kitchen or tableware: | |||
| 82.14.01 | Blanks for making spoons, forks and butter-knives | Free | … | 10% |
| 82.14.02 | Spoons and forks | Aul 22½% 27½% |
47½% 47½% |
60% 60% |
| 82.14.09 | Other | Aul 22½% 27½% |
47½% | 60% |
| 82.15 | Handles of base metal for articles falling within heading No. 82.09, 82.13, or 82.14: | |||
| 82.15.01 | For the knives of items 82.09.01 to 82.09.03 | Free | Free | Free |
| 82.15.09 | Other | Aul Can |
22½% 27½% |
47½% |
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🏭 Public Inquiry into Import Duties and Licensing for Cutlery, Spoons, Forks, and Handles
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Tariff and Development Board, Public Inquiry, Import Duties, Import Licensing, Cutlery, Spoons, Forks, Handles, Australian Preferential Tariff, Wellington
- O. A. Black, Secretary, Tariff and Development Board