REGISTERED No. D- 28
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1949
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
RESOLUTION
TARIFFS
New Delhi, the 22nd June 1949
No. 10-T(2)/49.—The Tariff Board was asked to conduct) such enquiries as might be necessary to determine, for the purpose of purchase by the Central Phosphate Tool, the ox-works prices of superphosphate produced by the various factories in the Indian Dominion. The Board, having made in- vestigations in the matter, has submitted its report. Its recommendations are as follows-—
(i) "Having regard to the present strife, of the development of the industry, a unit with a capacity of 3,000 tons of superphosphate per annum should be considered as an economic unit.
(ii)In view of the high prices fetched by indigenous bones in foreign markets and the fact that the country can produce all its require- ments of superphosphate from imported rock phosphate at much cheaper rates, the manufacture of superphosphate from rook phosphate should, in future, be encouraged.
(iii) In view of the wide variations in the capacity and the actual pro- duction of the different: factories, it is not practicable to fix a uniform ex-works price for superphosphate. Different ex-works prices should, therefore, be fixed so as neither to inflate the profits of low-cost units nor to allow the production of high-cost units to Buffer,
(iv) Having regard to the need for augmenting the production of super- phosphate as part; of the programme for intensifying the "Grow More Food Campaign", the fair ex-factory price of superphos- phate produced by factories at or near port towns should be fixed at Rs. 210 per ton. To this the actual freight charges on sulphur and rock phosphate should be added to determine the fair ex-factory prices of factories situated in the interior. The
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1080 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY, TUNE 22, 1949fair ox-factory prices inclusive of transport charges from factory to lii-ilwfty station for the various factories are us follows:-•
N a me of f a c t o ry
f a ir e i - f a u t o ry p r i ce of s u p e r p h o s p h a te i n o l u s i ve of t r a n s p o rt c h a r g es from f a c t o ry to r a i h v ay s t a t i on
(2)
(1)
( R e. p er t o n)
210 210 aio 210 210 210 240 265 ( D o o c a n ). , 2 30 22fi 1. i t a r u l i a e re a nd Chomioalfi, T r a v a n o o r e, L i m i t ed A l w a ya . 2. P a r ry & C o ., L i m i t ed M a d r as . . . .. i. D h a r a n ui M o r a r ji C h e m i c al Co., L i m i t ed B o m b ay 4. S o i m w a la I n d u s t r i e s, L t d ., B o m b ay . . .. o. W e s t e rn C h e m i c al I n d u s t r i e s, B o m b ay . . .. 6. B a a t em C h e m i c al C o. ( I n d i a ), B o m b ay . . .. 7. D . O. M. C h e m i c al W o r k s, D e l hi 8. N a t i o n al Fertilise™, L t d ., F o o nn . . . .. D. H y d e r a b ad C h e r a i c ub fliid F e r t i l i s e r s, L i m i t e d, F l y d o r u b ud 10. A n il a t a r oh P r o d u o t s, L t d ., A h n i o d a b ad 1 1. M y s o re C h e m i c a ls a nd Fertiliser!!, L i m i t o d, M y s o re
(v) Tbo ftvij: ex-factory prices specified above should bt1 given effect to horn the date of operation oi the Central Phosphate Pool aad should remain in force till 80th Jane, 1050. If, during any half- year, the costs of production increase by Rs. 10/- or more per ton oi superphosphate owing to. increase in the cost of sulphur or rock phosphate, the industry may apply to Government for a revision of prices, 1" case of decrease of cost by EH. 10 or more, Government should review the question.
(vi) All facilities should be giver, to superphosphate manufacturers to
imporc sulphur and rock phosphate.
(vii) The manufacturers of superphosphate have suggested that at a means of incrcasim'- tho consumption of superphosphate, the allotment &£ armnouium sulphate by- the Central Government to t)ie I'rovincial and Stale Governments should be mode condi- tional on the lati^r taking a specific proportion of superphosphate, and that, in the current year, at least 10 lbs. of phosphoric acid should bo allotted with every.30 lbs. of nitrogen, the pro- portion of phosphoric acid being increased to 20 lbs. in the next two yeiirs. ;\Vc commend this suggestion to the authorities con- cerned for their careful consideration.
(viii) Increased use rl supwphosphate depends on itn quality and we
recommend that the Central Government should lay down npeci-
iicruioviH for. superphosphate.
THE GAZETTE OF INDJA EXTRAORDINARY. JUNE 22, 1UQ 1081(ix) Tin.1 question of a reduction in railway rates of sulphur, rock phoHpkate and superphosphate should be considered by the Rail- way Board at an early dote,
(x) Superphosphate factories situated in the interior, which have to transport their raw materials from the port, should, as far as possible, phin their production to meet the demand in thnt parti- cular region or zone,
(xi) Means have to bo devised to avoid dela\ in payment for super- pbobphate purchased by .Government.
(xii) In view of the importance of {he fertiliser industry and the need for educating the cultivators in the use of superphosphate, an . Advisory Panel consisting of representatives of Government and the manufacturers should be get up."
2i Government accept recommendations (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (x), (xi) and (xiij. Steps will be taken to implement them. Recommendations (vii), (viii) and (ix) are undar examination. Tho attention of the industry in juvited to recommendation (x).
ORDEB
ORDERED thai a copy of this Resolution be- oimiiiiuuio-utad to all Pro- vincial Governments; nil Chiei Commission*, re; Ministry of External Affairs and the several Ministries of thi- Cjiovornmp.nt of' India; the Prime Minister's Secretariat; the Cabinet Secret mint; tho Private and Military Secretaries to His Excellency the- Governov-Geiieral; the Central Board of Revenue; the Auditor GoinraJj the Director • General of Employment and Resettlement, i,bo Director General, Industry and Supply; the Department of Scientific Renearoh, the High Commiasioner for India in London, Colombo, Ottawa, Karaohi and Canberra; the Jndian Ambassadors at Nanking", Moscow, Tehran, Kuthmaudu, Rangoon, Cairo, Kabul, Ankara, Washington, Prague and Bio-de-Janeiro; the Commissioner General for Commercial and Economic Affairs in Europe in Paris; the Charge d' Affaires of India in lJaris and Brussels; the Envoys Extra- ordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary, of India, Bangkok and JJarjie; the Coiiijula General for India in Batavia; .Buenos Aires, Shanghai, Pondicherry, Saigon, Kanhg>ir, New York tmd San i'ranoioco; the Deputy High Commis- sioner for India in Lahore, London and Dacca; the fefocretary to the High Commissioner for India in the U'uion of South Africa, Johannesburg; Aleuts of the Government 6f India in Kandy and Ivuala Lumpur; the Consuls for India at Saigon, Goa and Jedda; the Vioe Consuls for India at Medan m<} Zehedan; the Indian Political Officer, Sikkim; the Representative of tho Government of India in Singapur; the Commissioners for the Govrrnment: if India in Trinidad, Nairobi, Mauritius and Fiji; the Head of tho Indian Liaison Mission, Tokyo, the Head of the Military Mission "r:rlin; the Indiun
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OL C. DESAI,
Secretary to the Government of Ii,di>.<.