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REGISTERED No. D- 28

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1949

GOVERNMENT OP INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE

RESOLUTION

TAKIFFS

New Delhi, dated the 18th May, 1949

No. 40(l)-T.B./49.—The Tariff Board was asked to investigate the claim of the slate and slate pencils industry for protection or assistance, The Tariff Board, having examined the matter has submitted its report. Its recommenda- tions are as follows: —

(i) The costs of production of stone (first quality) and metal slates are lower than the landed cost ex-duty of imported stone slates. The c.i.f. price of metal slates is expected to be higher. If the duty at existing rate of 80 per cent, is added, the landed cost of the imported article would be still higher. Indigenous slates, there- fore, do not require support by a protective duty.

(iii) The present revenue duty of 80 per cent, ad valorem id sufficient to safeguard the manufacturers of slate pencils.

(iii) "Slates, all sorts" should be classified separately as item 45 (a) in the Indian Customs Tariff. Further, separate statis- tics of imports and exports of slates and slate pencils should, in future, be maintained and shown in the Sea-borne Trade Statis- tics.

(iv) The quality of the indigenous slates and slate pencils compares favourably with that of the imported products. As however., there is considerable scope for improvement, it would be advis- able for the industry to undertake research and obtain technical Information In regard to the methods of manufacture in other countries which produce slate and slate pencils of a superior quality.

(v) The industry should take steps to explore the possibilitiesofe x p o r ts to foreign countries and Government should, through their Trade Commissioners abroad, assist the industry in this respect.

(vi) Although the industry has asked for a complete ban on imports, we are unable to recommend the same So long as the policy of

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licensing imports has to be continued for balance of payment con- sider atiana, the desirability of maintaining and expanding indigen- ous production of slates and slate pencils should be kept in view and the quantum of imports regulated accordingly.

(vii) The Railway priority accorded to the industry in Madras should be continued and similar assistance should be extended to manufac- turers in other Provinces.

(viii) Thr Provincial Governments concerned should render manufac- turers tho necessary assistance in the matter of supply of petrol to and oil.

(ix) In view of the shortage of paper, greater use of slates and slate pen- cils should be made by the Central and Provincial Governments. The use of indigenous slates and slate penoils in schools should be encouraged, as far as possible, by the various Directors of Pub- lic Instruction.

(x) The Government of Madras should take neoessary steps to help the industry in the Kurnool District regarding scouring of leases of mines and reduction of royalties. The Government of the East Punjab should also take into consideration the require- ments of slate manufacturers when deciding questions relating to lease of quarries.

(xi) The Government of Madras should take steps to meet the require- ments of manufacturers in the Kurnool Distriot by releasing suit- able types of wood through the Government Forest Department. Further, the Government of Madras should explore the possibili- ties of supply of wood from forests in the Kurnool District.

(xii) The Provincial Forest Departments should undertake research in cooperation with the Forest Eesearch Institute, Dehra Dun, re- garding the availability of suitable types of wood in each Pro- vince, for the manufacture of slate frames.

(xiii) Tho Madras Government should give both financial and other ass- istance for establishing and operating an eleotrioity generating plant at Markapur.

(xiv) As it would be advisable to develop the industry on an All-India basis, the Directorate General of Industries and Supplies (Cottage Industries Directorate) should render necessary assistance for its development.

(x") In view of the abundant supply of natural slate stones and short- age of indigenous steel, we do. not consider it desirable to make any recommendation regarding the supply of Iron and steel sheets and other raw materials to the metal slate manufacturers. We clo not also recommend refund of customs duties on raw materials imported by metal slate manufacturers.

(xvi) The_ Industry should form an all India organisation and the organi- sation should collect statistical data regarding production. Imports, etc., and distribute those and other useful information to its members.

(xvii) The hxlrstry and the Provincial Governments concerned should pLooutage the organisution of the different slate and slate pencil maniiiucluring units on co-operative lines for the production nud marketing of its products.

(xviii) The manufacturers should approach the Indian Standards Institu- tion. Tsrjw Delhi, with a view to evolving proper standards

(xhr) The Geological Survey of India should undertake a. survey to ex- plore JT.-W sources of slate stone deposits and classify them accord- ing to tLrir quality

(xx) The Ontial Government should explore the possibility of settling "l>;"plafed Tritons" in areas where the industry is largely localised.

2. Government ':.?>ee with recommendations (1), (H), (iit), (v), (vi),

13. The attention <,f the Provincial Governments concerned is invited to recommendations (viii), (ix), fx), (xi), (xii), (xiii) and (xvii) "and of the Indus- tries to recommendntions fir), (v), (xvi), (xvii) and (xviii).

4. Recommendations (vii), (xix) and (xx) are also acceptable in principle and efforts will be made to inijlement them to the extent possible.

ORDER

ORDERKD that a copy of this Resolution be. communicated to all Provin- cial Governments, all Chief Commissioners, Ministry of External Affairs (Ex- ternal Affairs Wing), Ministry of External Affairs (Commonwealth Eolations \Ving), 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 afi Nanking, Moscow, Tehran, Kathmandu, Rangoon, Cairo, Kabul, Ankara, Washington, Prague, and Raio de Janerio, Commissioner General for Commer- cial and Economio Affairs in Europe, Paris. Charge d' Affaires of India in Paris and Brussels, Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of India, Bangkok and Berne; Consuls General for India in Batavia; Buenos Airea, Shanghai, Pondiehery, Saigon, Kashgir, New York, and San Francisco; The Deputy High Commissioner for India in tiahore, London and Dacca; The Secretary to the High Commissioner for India in the Union of South Africa, Johannesburg-; Agents of the Government of India in Kandy and Kuala Lumpur; Consuls for India _at Saigon, Goa, and Jedda; Vice Consuls for India at Medan and Zehedan; Tlie Indian Political Officer, Sikkim; The Representa- tive of the Government of India in Singapur; The Commissioners for tha Government of India in Trinidad. Nairobi, Mauritius, and Fiji; Head of th" 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; His Majesty's Senior Tvndc Commissioner in India; United Stntes Embassy, New Delhi; TKe Canadian Trade Commissioner In India; The Australian Tratit Gomnmsionor in iridw; The Norwegian Consul General, Bombay; The High Commissioner for Pakistan in India; New Delhi; The

Directors of Industries of Saurashtra Union, Rajkot; the Union State of Matsya, Alwar; the United StateB of Vindhya Pradesh, Rewa; the United States of Rajasthan, Udaipur, Gwalior, Indore, Malwa Union, Gwalior; Patiala and East Punjab States Union, Patiala; Editor, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, P-Block, Raisina Road, New Delhi; Indian Consul of Agricultural Research; Indian Standard Institution, Delhi; Free India Service, Tamrind House, Tamrind Lane, Fort Bombay; The Eoonomic Adviser to the Government of India; Economic Adviser to the Rajasthan Union; The Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statis- tics, Calcutta; The Secretary, Indian Tariff Board, Bombay; The Secretary, Industrial Finance Corporation of India,"New Delhi; and All recognised Cham- bers of Commerce and Trade Associations.

ORDERED that a oopy be communicated to the Government of Burma

ORDERED also that it.be published in the Qaxette of India.

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