The Cyprus Gazette

(w> .srpFLEME.NT TO THE CYPRUS GAZETTE, UTH SEPTEMBER, 1936.
Objects and Reasons.
This Customs Law consoUdates and amends the Laws hitherto in force relating
to the control and regulation of customs and the payment of import and export
duties.
2. The provisions of this Law mainly foUow the provisions ofthe present Customs
Lav\ s but the opportunity has been taken to incorporate certain new provisions which
are to be found m the customs legislation of other parts of the Empire. The new
provisions are contained in sections 2, 3, 12, 15, 16, 18 to 21, 37, 40 to 43, 47, 48,
50, 51, 71 to 75, 81, 82, 84, 86, 89, 92, 96 and 96.
3. The First Schedule to this Law sets forth the import duties, and shows the
preferential rate chargeable on British Empire products and also the general rate
chargeable on goods imported fi-om foreign countries.
4. The main object of the alterations made in the rates of import duties is to
ensure a greater margin of preferenoe to goods of British Empire origin, and for the
purpose of affording greater protection to local industries the duties on goods of
foreign manufacture have in certain cases been increased.
The principal changes in import duties are as follows :—
(A) Reductions :—
(i) British cement from 4Jp. to 3Jp. per cwt.
(u) British coal from 4s. 1 Jp. to 2s. 4Jp. per ton.
(iii) Medicines, chemicals, drugs and dyes :
British firom 12J% to 7%.
Foreign firom 15% to 12%.
(iv) Flour :
British fi^m £2.5.0 to £1.0.0 per ton.
Foreign firom £5.6.0 to £4.0.0 per ton.
(B) Increases :—
(i) Boots and shoes—at various rates.
(u) Brooms firom £1 to £1. IOs. per hundred,
(iu) Macaroni fi'om Ip. to IJp. per oke.
(iv) Foreign sugar from 3p. to 3Jp. per oke.
6. Wearing apparel including hats, hosiery, shirts, ties and vests and wooUen
piece goods are made chargeable at an altemative rate of import duty in order that
cheap goods of foreign manufacture shaU pay such a duty as will enable British Empire
goods to compete.
6. It ^^ill be observed that the rate of import duty on ammunition, beer, butter,
coflFee, fish, matches, motor cars, oils, petrol, petroleum, rice, soap and tobacoo
remains unchanged.
7. The Second Schedule to this Law enumerates the goods exempted firom the
payment of import duties, and exemption has been granted to poultry farming and
bee-keeping appliances, certain articles used in the packing and export of fruit, eggs
and vegetables, fungicides, and baskets for the export of finiit.
The time during which household goods of intending residents mny be admitted
free of import duty has been extended from three to six months.
L. LLOYD-BLOOD,
(:,T.P. 13r,A31.) Attomey-General,
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