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Announcing this, a spokesman for the Trade Department said the revision of fees and charges was necessary to recover the cost.
He said: "It is Government policy that the fees and charges should recover the full cost of providing a service and that a comprehensive costing exercise should be conducted once every four years.
"In the interim years, fee reviews should be conducted annually to reflect inflation as measured by the movement of the Government Consumption Expenditure Deflator. The revised fees and charges are determined in line with this policy."
The spokesman said the measure of inflation for Government expenditure had worked out to be 9 per cent this year and the revised fees were arrived at by applying the 9 per cent factor with some of the figures rounded up or down for the convenience
of collection or affixing stamps with appropriate denominations.
"The Textiles Advisory Board and the Trade Advisory Board have been consulted. The Textiles Advisory Board has raised no objection to the new fees. One member of the Trade Advisory Board is concerned about the proposed new fees in respect of Certificate of Origin," he added.
The revised scale of fees to be implemented with effect from July 5, 1996 (unless otherwise specified) are as follows:-
Fees
Type of Application
Current
Revised
Application for issue of textiles export
$48
$52
licence - non-restrained items (Form 4)
Application for issue of textiles export
$185
$202
licence - restrained items (Form 5)
Annual fee for registration of companies
$1,470
$1,600
for textiles control purposes
Application for transfer of quota
$240
$262
Application for swing of quota
$215
$235
Application for free quota export authorisation
$435
$475
Application for textiles import licence(Form 7)
$34
$37