To deal with this question a special Preventive. Secretariat was treated and stringent measures were talon to assert greater control for the benet of import trade and {tariffs were introduced, "A. revised find. Increased" Import Tariff was brought. into. force on 1st January Janda new Export Tariff on. Ist Tune, while w temporary flood relic! surtax on revenue was imposed. as from st December, On the other! hand, likin dues, transit dues, coast trade duty, Native Customs' duty collected by the Superintendents of Gustoms at stations outside a radius of 30 li from the treaty ports, and Native Customs duty collected. by. the Commissioners of Customs under the Inspector General at. sta ons. within' 60-1 radius of the treaty ports were all abolished. The abolition, of these dues. and duties var a long anticipated move on the part of the Government towards Ite elimination of taxation on dome matic trade, nnd the serious sacrifice of revenue that the Government fave thus foregone in the interests ff internal trade and, indirectly, in the interests of the foreign. trade try also, certainly should against the cost to commerce and industry of the above-mentioned Higher Import _ané Export. Tari ehedules of 1933.
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