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REGISTERED No. D-28

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

NEW DELHI, SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1949

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA,

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE

RESOLUTION

TARIFFS

New Delhi, the 15th May 1949

Ho. 3(3)-T.B./48.—As announced in their Resolution No. 218-T(28)/47, dated the 22nd March 1947, on the Tariff Board's report on the claim to pro- tection from the Aluminium Industry, Government appointed an Official Committee to carry out the further investigations indicated therein. The Official Committee has submitted its report. Government have considered this report in consultation with the Tariff Board and have decided that the Indian Aluminium Company and the Aluminium Corporation of India should be sub- sidised to the extent of the difference between the fair selling price of their products, having regard to their respective costs of production and the fair selling price of similar imported articles Such assistance will be granted for an initial period of three years, the subsidy being progressively reduced making allowance for the estimated reduction in the cost of production of alumina in the case of the Indian Aluminium Company and in the case of the Aluminium Corporation of India the estimated reduction in the cost of producing alumini- um accruing from an increase in capacity which can be achieved without substantial capital investment and from a decrease in the consumption of power. The subsidy will largely be met out of the additional revenue that is expected to be realised by the enhanced duties that will be imposed on aluminum ingots and sheets and circles. The rates of subsidies that will be paid are as follows:—

Year

Rate of subsidy in rupees per ton.

Indian Aluminium company

Aluminium Corporation

(on sheets and circles)

1949-50 330

710 (on sheets and circles)

900 (on ingots)

1950-51 230

( ., )

610 (on sheets and circles)

825 (on ingots)

1951-52 130

( ., )

510 (on sheets and circles )

750 (on ingots)

[ 783 ]

The scheme involves the continued levy of import duty at the existing rate of 80 per cent, ad valorem and the levy in addition of specific duties at the following rates:—

Yeov

Rat A of additional duty on ingot 8 in rupees por ton,

Rate of additional duty on shoetH, strips and eirdleG in rupees por ton.

1049-00 1960-A1 1951-62

828 237 140 •

121 46 Nil.

These rates of duty and subsidy are bused on the landed oost ex-duty oi lluminium ingots¹ being Bs. 1,275 per ton. and of 20 gauge circles being BB, 2,614 per ton and are liable to suitable adjustments if these prices vary appreciably. A notification under Section 2 of the Protective Duties Act, 1946 is being issued, imposing the additional duties indicated above in so far a& ;t is necessary to cover the period before the neceasary legislation is enacted.

'2, Government have also arrived at the following decisions:—

(i) The existing pool arrangements in regard to aluminium will be wound up as from the 16th May 1949,

(ii) Ingot stocks with producers on the 15th May, 1949 will bo eubsi dised as far as possible from the funds at the credit of the Pool' The balance, if any, will be aligibl'e for subsidy under this scheme.

(iii) Import of aluminium ingots, sheets and • oiroles will be allowed freely consistently with the exchange, position.

(iv) All possible steps will be taken to give effect to recommendations (1) to (C) contained in paragraph 2 of their Besolution of the 22nd March 1947.

(v) A special Aluminium Development Fund, as recommended by the Tariff Board, need not be constituted for the time being.

(vi) Prices of utensils made of aluminium, as originally recomended by the Tariff Board, will not be fixed, the Control Order being no longer iu force,

(yii) Aluminium tea, chest linings will be treated as an aluminium product fnr the purpose of the rate of protective duty leviable thereon, as recommended by the Tariff Board.

(viii) The case oi the Aluminium Industries Ltd. of Trivandrum for whom the Tariff Board had recommended a rebate of duty in excess of .SO per cent, ad valorem on the basis of the quantity of aluminium cable produced and marketed by them will be consi- dered on merits after they go into production, having regard to the general principle accepted by Government in regard to the exemption or reduction from customs duty of importe4 raw material for industries.

(ix) The recommendation of the Tariff Board that the, aluminium inter- ests should form a strong organisation comprising the whole in- dustry for giving general guidance to the industry and represent it vis a vis Government and organisations of the industry in other countries is commended to the industry.

8. Detailed instructions regarding the reuorda to bo main-tamed by the Indian Aluminium Company and the Aluminium Corporation of India, the re- turns to be submitted and the procedure to be followed in claiming the subsidy are under consideration and will issue shortly.

ORDER

OKDEmBD that u, uopy of this Eesolution be communicated to all Pro- vincial Governments, all Chief Commissioners, Ministry of External Affairs (External Affairs Wing), Ministry of External Affairs (Commonwealth Re- lations 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 nnd Supply, the High Commissioner for India in London, Colombo, Ottawa, Karachi and Canberra, the Indian Ambassadors at Nanking, Moscow, Tehran, Kathmandu, Kangoon, Cairo, Kabul, Ankara, Washington, Prague, and Raio de. Janerio, Commissioner General for Commer- cial and Economic Affairs in Europe, Paris; Charge d' Affairs of India in Paris and Brussels, Envoys extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of India, Bangkok and Berne; Consuls General for India in Batavia; Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Pondiohery, Saigon, Kashgir, New York, and San Francisco; Tha Deputy High Commissioner for India in Lahore, London and Dacca; The Sec- retary to the High Commissioner for India in the Union of South Africa, Johanse- burg; Agents of the Government of India in Kanday nnd Kuala Lumpur; Con- suls for India at Saigon, Goa, nnd Jedda; Vice Consuls for India at Medan and Zehertan; The Indian Political Officer, SiMdm; The Representative of the Government of India, in Singapur; The ComrniHsioners for the Government of Tnd'a 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 Kara- chi; Assistant Indian Government Trade Commissioner, Dacca; Com- mercial Adviser to the High Commissioner in U. K., London; Commercial Secretaries to the Indian Embassies at Alexandria, Rio de Janerio, Rangoon, Tehran and Kabul; Paris; His Majesty's Senior Trade Commis- sioner in India; United States Embassy, New Delhi; The Canadian Trade •Onmrninaioner 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 Snureshtra Union, Rajkot; the Union State of Matsya, Alwar; the United States of Vindhya Pardesh, Ttowa: the United States of Rajasthan, Udaipur, Gwalior. Tndore, Malwa Union, Gawalior; Patiala and East Punjab States Union, Putiala: Editor, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, P-Block, Rai- sina Road, New Delhi; Indian Consul of Agriculture Research; Indian Stand- ard Institution, Delhi; Free India Servico, 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 Intelli- gence and Statistics, Calcutta; The Secretary, Indian Tariff Board, Bombay;, The Secretary, Industrial Finance Corporation of India, New Delhi; and All wcognised Chambers of Commerce and Trade Associations.

ORDEBED that a copy be communicated to the Government of Burma. OEDEEKD also that it be published in the Gazette of India.

NOTIFICATION

TAJUFM

New Delhi, the 15th May 1949

No. 3(3)-T. B/48.—In exercise of the powers conferred by Sub-wcction (i) of section 2 of the Protective Duties Act, 1946 (XVXE of 1946), the Central Gov- ernment is pleased to impose the following duties of customs on (a) aluminium ingots (b) aluminium sheets and circles, namely:—-

{a) Aluminium ingots

RH, 828 por ton la addition to th" duty Ieviablo under item 66 (1) of tho Firat Schedule to the Indian Tariff Aot, 1934.

^b) Aluminium sheets and oirolea

RM. 121 par ton iu addition to the duty leviable under item 66 or 40 (3) of thf First Schedule to the Indian Tariff A"t, 1934.

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