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Matches (Customs)

Volume 105: debated on Monday 22 April 1918

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Resolved,

9. That in addition to the duties of Customs now payable on matches imported into Great Britain or Ireland there shall on and after the twenty-third day of April nineteen hundred and eighteen, be charged the following duty (that is to say):—

For every ten thousand matches a duty of018

and so in proportion for any less quantity.

And it is declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the Provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913.