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SAFEGUARDING

OF INDUSTRIES.

Enamelled Hollow-ware.

(Previous

Reference: Cabinet 21 (28), Con- clusion 4.)

10. The Cabinet had before them a Memorandum

by the President of the Board of Trade (Paper

0.P.-172 (28)) covering the Report of a

Committee appointed under the Safe guarding of

Industries Procedure to enquire into an applica-

tion for a Duty on enamelled hollow-ware.

In accordance with the finding of the Committee

the President of the Board of Trade, in his

Memorandum, recommended that the Cabinet should

approve the inclusion of a Duty of 25 per cent.

on raw enamelled hollow-ware for a period of

five years in this year's Finance Bill; that

the Duty should come into force as soon as

possible after the necessary Ways and Means

resolution has been introduced; and proposing

to publish the Report of the Committee, in

accordance with the established practice } just

before the introduction of the resolution.

The President of the Board of Trade

informed the Cabinet that there had been three

Inquiries into this question. As the result of

the first Inquiry a Duty had been imposed; as

the result of the second it had been taken off;

and now the Duty was again recommended.

The Cabinet agreed

(a) To approve the inclusion of a Duty

of 25 per cent. on renamelled wrought hollow-ware for a period of five years in this year's Finance Bill:

(b) That the necessary Resolution

should be moved on Friday next, June 8th.

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