In order to balance the extra fiscal burden which the tax kerosene might throw upon the consumer, Mr. Churchill proposed to reduce the existing duties on sugar. The duty on all imported sugar would be reduced by an amount equivalent to a farthing in a Ib, in the retail price. By this means it was possible also to afford relief "to British refiners who had long complained that while Empire sugar producers had been assisted by preference and while the Home-grown beet industry had been helped, British refiners had been left to engage, without assistance, in the struggle against competitors, domestic and foreign. The restriction of duty was a design to encourage the importation of raw sugar which would undergo refining in this country rather than the importation of white sugar refined abroad.
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