REGISTERED NO . D -28
of Andía The Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI , WEDNESDAY , MAY 11 , 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
RESOLUTION
New Delhi , dated the 11th May, 1949 .
Re- No. 16 ( 2 )-T . B./49:- Grinding Wheels is a protected industry . presentations were received that the existing quantum of protection was in- adequate . The Tariff Board was asked to make the necessary enquiries and to report whether the quantum or nature of protection at present enjoyed by the industry was adequate and suitable or not .
2. The Board having invostigated the matter has submitted its report . Its recommendations are as follows : -
( i) The existing protective duty on grinding wheels , namely , 80 per cent ad valorem should be increased to 100 per cent .;
( ii) Messrs . Grindwell Ltd. , should be directed to form themselves into a public limited Company with as little delay as possible ;
(iii) The Company should make a serious effort to reduce the cost of production by introducing economic processes of manufacture and by keeping the strength of labour and technical and other staff to the absolute minimum necessary to maintain optimum produc- tion;
(iv) The Company should continue to get the concession of importing syndicate abrasive grains required by them free of duty for the duration of protection; and;
(v) All Railways and Government orders for grinding wheels should con- tinue to be placed with the Indian manufacturers up to the limit of their productive capacity .
3. Government accept recommendation ( i) . A Notification under Section 4(1) of the Indian Tariff Act is being issued.
4. The attention of Messrs . Grindwell Ltd. is invited to recommendations (ii ) and ( iii) . With regard to the former Government have decided that un- less the company converted itself into a public limited Company by the 31st December , 1949. Government would have to seriously consider withdrawing ull special concessions or assistance that it enjoyed.
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5. With regard to recommendation ( iv) , the concession has already been extended up to the 31st December , 1950. The exemption will not be extend- ed beyond that date and the Company should make arrangements to manufacture this article locally by that date .
6. Government accept recommendation (v) and appropriate action will he taken .
ORDER
The (ORDERED that a copy of this Resolution be communicated to all Pro- vincial Governments , all Chief Commissioners , Ministry of External Affairs (External Affairs Wing ) , Ministry of External Affairs ( Commonwealth Rela- tions Wing ) , 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 Central Board of Revenue , the Auditor General , the Director General of Employment and Resettlement , the Director General , Industry and Supply , the High Commissioner for India in London , Colombo , Ottawa , Karachi and Canberra , the Indian Ambassadors at Nanking, Moscow, Tehran , Kathmandu , Rangoon , Cairo , Kabul , Ankara , Wash- ington , Prague , and Raio de Janerio Commissioner General for Commercial and Econoinic Affairs in Europe in Paris ; ' Charged ' Affairs of India in Paris and Brussels , Envoys extraordinary and Ministers plonipotentiary of India , Bangkok and Berne ; Consuls General for India in Batavia ; Buenos Aires , Shanghai , Pondichery , Saigon , Kashgir , New York , and San Francisco; 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 Lum- pat: Consuls for India at Saigon, Goa , and Jedda ; Vice Consuls for India at Medan and Zehedan ; The Indian Political Officer , Sikkim ; The Repres- entative of the Government of India in Singapur ; 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 Commis- sioner , 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; Affairs in Europe , Paris ; His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in India ; United States Embassy , New Delhi; The Canadian Trade Commissioner in India ; The Australian Trade Commissioner in India ; The Norwegian Consul Gencral , Bombay ; The High Commissioner for Pakistan in India; New Delhi ; The Directors of Industries of Saurashtra Union , Rajkot; the Union State of Matsva , Alwar ; the United State of Vindhya Pardesh , Rewa ; the United State of Rajasthan , Udaipur , Gwalior , Indore , Malwa Union , Gwalior and Fast 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 Indian Service , Tamrind House , Tamrind Lave , 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 communicated to the Government of Burma . ORDERED also that it be published in the Gazette of India .
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NOTIFICATION
TARIFF'S
New Delhi , the 11th May 1949
No. 16(2)-T. B./49:-In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 4 (1) of the Indian Tariff Act , ( XXXII of 1984) the Central Government is pleased to raise the duty leviable on grinding wheels and segments under Item 71 (8) of the First Schedule to the said Act read with the Government of India , Ministry of Commerce Notification No. 218 - T (77) / 46 , dated the 4th December , 1949 from 80 per cent ad valorem to 100 per cent ad valorem .
S. RANGANATHAN , Joint Secretary .
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