REGISTERED No. D - 28
The Gazette
of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI , MONDAY , APRIL 25 , 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
RESOLUTION
New Delhi , the 25th April 1949
No. 36 ( 1 ) -Τ.Β. / 49 . The period of protection to the Sericulture Industry was due to expire on the 81st March , 1949. The Tariff Board was asked to examine in detail the question of protection enjoyed by this industry and to report to Government what protective measures , if any , should be continued after the expiry of the period of protection .
2. The Tariff Board , having considered the matter , has submitted its report . Its recommendations are as follows: ---
( i) The protective duty on raw silk , item 40 of the Tariff ( excluding silk waste and noils) , should be raised to 80 per cent . ad valorem plus Rs. 15-12-0 per lb. If at any time , the c.i.f. price of imported raw silk falls below Rs . 12-8-5 so as to render the scheme of protection ineffective , Section 4 ( 1) of the Indian Tariff Act of 1931 should be invoked to raise the specific duty by a suitable amount . The existing duty of 80 per cent . ad valorem on silk waste and noils , item 46(1 ) of the Tariff , should continue .
(in) The same rate of duty should be levied on silk yarn ( including thrown silk warps) as on raw silk viz . , 80 per cent . ad valorem plus Rs 15-12-0 per lb. , ( item 47 of the Tariff) .
( iii) An ad valorem duty of 80 per cent . plus a specific duty of Rs . 4-8- (0) per lb. , should be levied on yarn spun from silk waste , ( item 47 of the Tariff) .
(iv) A duty of 80 per cent . ad valorem should be levied on noil yarns (item 47 of the Tariff) .
( v) The existing rate of duty , vis , 30 per cent . ad valorem should be continued on silk sewing thread [ item 47( 1) of the Tariff ] , ( vi) An ad valorem duty of 75 per cent . and a specific duty of Rs . 5-8-0 per lb. , should be levied on pongee , [ item 48 ( a) of the Tariff ] .
( vii ) protecise duty f 30 per cent . ad vitorem stod be evie on fuji , boseki and corded , [ item 48 (b ) of the Tariff ) .
(viii) An ad valorem duty of 75 per cent . and a specific duty of Rs . 4 per lb. , should be levied on other silk fabrics covered by tariff item 48 (0) .
(ix) The proposed duties on the various items of raw silk , silk yarn and silk fabrics should remain, in force until 31st March , 1952.
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(x) Other forms of assistance :
provision of adequate funds and other facilities for soricultural resea a central seed station for foreign races of silk worms , enactment of suitable legislative measures for controlling silk worm diseases , introduction of compulsion by stages for the use of disease - frec silk worm seeds , improvements in charka reeling to be effected by the Sericultural Departments in the Provinces and States concerned , establishment of two more conditioning and testing houses for standardization and grading of silk , inclusion of the B.Sc. degree in sericulture as a course of study in the curriculam of the Universities situated in the sericultural Provinces , faci- lities to be provided by the Government of India for the training of experts in foreign countries and assistance to be rendered by the Central Government for securing machinery and equipment for the industry,
3. Government accept recommendations ( i) to ( vi ) and ( viii ) and ( ix ) . With regard to item ( vii ) having regard to revenue and other considerations Govern- ment have decided that the rate of duty on articles covered by item 48 (b) should be the same as for 48 ( a) . A Notification under Section 4 (1) of the Indian Tariff Act , 1984 modifying the duties accordingly is being issued .
4. With regard to recommendation ( ix) , the period of protection to the seri- culture industry has already been extended up to the 31st March , 1951 , Steps will be taken in due course to extend the period for a further year .
5. Government accept recommendation ( x) in principle and appropriate action will be taken .
ORDER
ORDERED that a copy of this Resolution be communicated to all Provincial Governments , all Chief Commissionors , Ministry of External Affairs , and the several Ministries of the Government of India , Prime Minister's Secretariat , Cabinet Sectt . , the Private and Military Secretaries to His Excellency the Governor - General , the Contral Board of Revenue , the Auditor General , the Director General of Employment and Resettlement , the Director General , In- dustry and Supply , the High Commissioners for India in London, Colombo , Ottawa , Karachi and Canberra , the Indian Ambassadors at Nanking , Moscow , Tehran , Kathmandu , Rangoon , Cairo , Kabul , Ankara , Washington , Prague , and Raio de Janerio , Charge d ' Affairs of India in Paris and Brussels , Envoys Extra- ordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of India , Bangkok and Berne ; Consuls General for India in Batavia; Buenos Aires , Shanghai , Pondichery , Saigon , Kashgir , New York , and San Francisco ; The Deputy High Commissioner for India in Lahore , London and Dacca ; The Secretary to the High Commissioner for India in the Union of South Africa , Johanseburg ; Agents of the Government of India in Kanday and Kuela Lumpat ; Consuls for India at Saigon , Goa , and Jedda ; Vice Consuls for India at Medan and Zehedan; The Indian Political Officer , Sikkim ; The Representative of the Government of India in Singapore ; The Commissioners for the Government of India in Trinidad , Nairobi , Mauritius , and Fiji ; Head of the Indian Liaison Mission , Tokyo ; Head of the Military Mission , Berlin ; Indian Government Trade Commissioners in Toronto , Sydney , Mombassa , Colombo , Paris and Karachi ; Assistant Indian Government Trade Commissioner, Dacca ; Commercial Adviser to the High Commissioner in U.K. , London; Commercial Secretaries to the Indian Embassies at Alexandria , Rio De Janerio, Rangoon , Tehran and Kabul ; Commissioner General for Commercial and Economic Affairs in Europe , Paris ; His Majesty's Senior Trade Commis- sioner in India ; United States Embassy , New Delhi ; The Canadian Trade Com- missioner in India ; The Australian Trade Commissioner in India; The Norwegian Consul General , Bombay; The High Commissioner for Pakistan in India ; New Delhi : The Directors of Industries of Saurashtra Union , Rajkot , the Union 735 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA , EXTRAORDINARY , APRIL 25 , 1949
of Matsya , Alwar ; the United State of Vindhya Pardesh , Rewa ; the d State of Rajasthan , Udaipur , Gwaliar , Indore , Malwa Union , Gwaliar ; Patiala and East Punjab States Union , Patiala ; Editor , Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research , P -Block , Raisina Road , New Delhi ; Indian Consul of Agriculture Research ; Indian Standard Institution , Delhi ; Free India Service , Tamrind House , Tamrind Lane , Fort Bombay ; The Economic Adviser to the Government of India ; Economic Adviser to the Rajasthan Union ; The Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics , Calcutta ; The Secretary , Indian Tariff Board , Bombay ; The Secretary , Industrial Finance Corporation of India , New Delhi ; and All recognised Chambers of Commerce and Trade Associations .
ORDERED that a copy be communicatedto the Government of Burana . ORDERED also that it be published in the Gazette of India .
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi , the 25th April 1949
No. 36( 1 ) -Τ.Β. / 49. -In exercise of the powers confcrred by Section 4 ( 1 ) of the Indian Tariff Act , 1934 ( XXXII of 1934) , the Central Government is pleased to modify to the extent and in the manner indicated in the annexed table , the customs duties leviable on the articles specified in items 46 , 47 and 48 of the First Schedule to the said Act .
TABLE
Name of article
Existing rate of duty
2
Item No. of Tariff 1
46 Silk, raw ( excluding silk waste and noils ) , and silk CO- coons .
Modifled duty
3
4
30 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 15-12-0 . per lb.
25 por cont ad valorem plus 14 annas per lb. plus one- fifth of the total duty . per cent ad valorem plus 14 annas per Ib . plus one- fifth of the total duty .
47 Silk yarn including thrown 25 silk warps and yarn spun from silk waste or noils but excluding sowing thread .
30 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 15-12-0 per lb.
( a) Silk yaru including thrown silk warps but excluding thread sewing
30 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 4-8-0 por lb.
( b) Yarn spun from silk waste excluding sewing thread .
30 Por cent ad valorem .
(c) Yarn spun from noils excluding thread . sewing
48 Fabrics , not otherwise speci- fled, containing more than 90 por cent of silk , includ- ing such fabrica embroider- ed with artificial silk .
(a) Pongee
75 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 5-8-0 per lb.
50 per cent ad valrem plus Re. 1/ - per lb. plus one- half of the total duty.
(6 ) Fuji , Boseki , and corded (excluding white cord) .
(c) Other sorte
75 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 5-8-0 per lb
75 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 4 per lb.
50 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 1-8-0 per lb. plus one. half of the total duty . 50 per cent ad valorem plus Rs . 2 per lb. plus one -half of the total duty .
S. RANGANATHAN , Joint Secy .
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