CUSTOMS TARIFF.

No. 14 of 1906.

An Act relating to Duties of Customs.

[Assented to 12th October, 1906.]

BE it, enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1906.

Customs Duties on Harvesters, &c.

2. In lieu of the Duties of Customs imposed by the Customs Tariff 1902 on the dutiable goods specified in the Schedule to this Act, Duties of Customs shall, from the twenty-eighth day of August One thousand nine hundred and six at half-past four o’clock in the afternoon according to the standard time in the State of Victoria or from such later dates as are mentioned in the said Schedule as regards particular items, be imposed on the dutiable goods specified in Part I. of the Schedule in accordance with the rates of duty set out therein. The goods specified in Part II. of the First Schedule shall be free of Customs Duty.

Goods charged with duties.

3. The Duties of Customs specified in the Schedule to this Act shall be charged collected and paid to the use of the King for the purposes of the Commonwealth on the dutiable goods specified in the said Schedule and imported into Australia after the time from which the said duties are imposed or imported into Australia before that time and not entered for home consumption until after that time.

Reduction of duty in certain cases.

4. If the Governor-General is satisfied that the cash prices at which stripper harvesters and drills manufactured in Australia are sold exceeds the prices hereunder set out he may by proclamation reduce the rate of duty specified in the Schedule in respect of stripper harvesters but so that the reduction shall not reduce the rate of duty below one-half the rate of duty imposed by this Act.

Prices of Australian Stripper Harvesters.

On and after 1st February, 1907—

Stripper Harvesters, 5-foot size and under, price £70.

Stripper Harvesters, 5-foot 6-inch to 6-foot size, price £75.

Stripper Harvesters, 6-foot size and over, price £80.

On and after 1st February, 1908—

Stripper Harvesters, 5-foot size and under, price £65.

Stripper Harvesters, 5-foot 6-inch to 6-foot size, price £70.

Stripper Harvesters, 6-foot size and over, price £75.

Prices of Australian Drills (Fertilizer, Seed, and Grain).

On and after 1st February. 1907—

On and after 1st February, 1908—

The prices herein mentioned are to be the maximum prices of the harvesters and drills delivered to the purchaser at the railway station nearest to the factory where they are made or at the port nearest to the factory.

THE SCHEDULE.

PART I.—IMPORT DUTIES.

PART II.—FREE GOODS.

Manufactures of Metal, viz.—

Hand-worked Rakes and Ploughs combined,

Hay Tedders,

Maize Harvesters,

Maize Binders,

Mould Board Plates in the rough and not cut into shape,

Potato Sorters,

Potato Raisers or Diggers,

Sub-surface Packers.