The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
RESOLUTION
TARIFFS
New Delhi, the 18th February, 1949
No. 10-T(l)/49.—In their Resolution in the Ministry of Commerce No. I-T/(13)/48, dated the 5th July, 1948, the Government of India requested the Tariff Board to conduct the necessary enquiries on the representation made by the paper industry for an increase in the prices of paper as well as those of Duplex, Triplex and Ticket Boards and submit a report.
2. After carrying out a detailed investigation into the cost of production of certain main types of paper for the half year ended March, 1948, at six representative mills situated in different regions of the country, the Board has made the following recommendations in regard to sales to the public: —
(1) That the selling price of white printing paper should be fixed at Rs.
0-10-1 per pound.
(2) That the selling prices of other varieties of paper as well as those of Duplex, Triplex and Ticket Boards should be fixed by applying to the price of white printing paper revised differentials recommend- ed by the Board.
(3) That the proposed prices should remain in force for a period of one
year.
(4) That the existing additional margins or extras allowed for super- calendaring, colouring, rag contents, guillotine cutting to sizes below 13¼"x l6½" etc., be retained.
3. The Government of India accept the above recommendations of the Board and are accordingly revising Schedule I appended to the Paper Price Control Order, 1945, in order to give effect to the above recommendations.
The Board's recommendations in regard to the prices to be charged for Government purchases are under consideration of the Government of India.
ORDERS
150 THE. GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 18, 1949Board of Revenue, the Auditor General, the Director General of Employment and Resettlement, the Director General, Industry and Supply, the High Com- missioner for Ijadia in London, the Economic Adviser \o the Government of ' India, the Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Calcutta, the Indian Trade Commissioner, London, the Indian Trade Commissioners at New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Alexandria, Colombo, Paris, Mombasa, Tehran and Sydney, His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in India, the United States Embassy, New Delhi, the Canadian Trade Commissioner in India", the Australian Trade Commissioner in India, Norwegian Consul General, Bombay, the High Commissioner for India in Pakistan, Karachi, the High Commissioner for Pakistan in India, New Delhi, the Secretary, Tariff Board, Bombay, "and all recognised Chambers of Commerce and Associations.
ORDERED that a copy be communicated to the Government of Burma. ORDERED also that ifc be published in the Gazette of India.
S. RANGANATHAN, Joint Secy.