The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949
GOVERNMENT OP INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
RESOLUTION
New Delhi, the 27th April, 1949
No. 17(l)-T,B./49.—The levy of protective duties on the alloy, tool and. special steels specified in Item 63(30) of the Indian Customs Tariff was due to expire on the 3lst March, 1949. The Tariff Board has conducted an enquiry to determine what if any should be the measure of protection for the protected categories of these steels after the 31st March, 1949.
2. The Board has submitted its report with the following recommendations: — (i) The existing protective duty on all protected categories of steel in tariff item 68(30) should bo maintained, viz., 30 per cent, ad valorem in respect of articles manufactured in the U. K. and 42 per cent. ad valorem in respect of articles manufactured in other countries. (ii) The protection should be extended by two years more, i.e., until the 31st March, 1951.
(iii) The Tata Company should take steps to increase its production of high speed steel and stainless steels and thereby meet the con- sumers' requirements for those steels to a greater extent than it has hitherto done.
(iv) There should be no statutory ceiling prices. In view, however, of the preferential position that would be enjoyed by the Tata Com- pany under the proposed measure of protection, the ex-works prices of the four protected categories of steel should continue to bo fixed by the Company at the rates determined by the Board and the ex-works prices of other related categories of alloy, tool and special steels should be fixed by the Company after making due adjustments in the prices of the four protected categories of steels.
(v) The present policy of co-ordination between the disposal of Govern- ment surplus stocks and indigenous production as well as that of import regulation should be continued for the entire period of protection.
738 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, APRIL 27, 19498, Government accept all these recommendations. AH regards recommenda- tion (u), .the period of protection has been extended to the yiat March 1950 by the Protective Duties (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1949. Steps will be taken in duo course for further extension of protection.
and (iv).
4. The attention of the Tata Company is invited to recommendations fin) v •
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