Canberra, Jan. 18.
In connection with the Customs trodes on December 1, 1999, the Licensing) Regulations in-Commonwealth Government has announced the following major amendments, which have already been. operative, with reference to goods in transit and on order from non-steriing- countries.
ods which were in transit on December 1 wil be exempt from imported into Australia by February Theatre. This has ime, but if anyone Goods on order under Category D of the Regulations will be subject to three major considerations: firstly, that they have been ordered and the order actually accepted before November 1, 1930; secondly, that the quantities are normal; thirdly, that they ere imported into Australia before March 3l.
G on order under Categories A, B, and C will be admitted it the order was placed and actually accepted before December 1, 1939, and if the goods are imported into Australia before April 30, 1940.
Special provisions in respect te cotton and artificial silk goods on order provide for an extension of time of export írom country of origin to a date not later than June 30, and the date of import into Australia to be not later than September 30, 1940.—Reuter.
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