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asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give a list of the controls still exercised by his Department in the licensing of manufacturers and the purchase, acquisition and allocation of raw materials, respectively.
Following is a list, setting out (i) the goods which require a licence for trade or manufacture; (ii) the materials purchased for resale on Government account; (iii) the materials which cannot be acquired without a licence. I should make it clear that this list does not include import licensing or any non-statutory arrangement for the allocation of materials.(1)
Goods which require a licence for trade or manufacture
- Advertising circulars.
- Carpets, rugs, mats and matting.
- Contents posters (for newspapers and periodicals).
- Cotton linters.
- Cutlery, spoons and forks (except certain types).
- Footwear.
- Utility furs.
- Domestic glassware (decorated by cutting, engraving or etching).
- Gloves.
- Hard hemp.
- True hemp (except Indian).
- Hosiery.
- Raw jute.
- Jute yarn and goods.
- Lace.
- Lactic acid and casein.
- Dressed leather.
- Organs.
- Packaging (certain types of metal and glass containers).
- Paint.
- Paper and Board.
- Pencils.
- Pianos.
- Domestic Pottery.
- Sulphuric acid.
- Textiles (loom licensing).
- Wool: combing laps, nods, tops, broken tops.
(2) Materials purchased for resale on Government account
- Basic slag.
- Calcium carbide.
- Calf skins.
- Casein (lactic and rennet).
- Chile nitrates.
- Cotton waste (imported).
- Cyanamide.
- True hemp.
- Raw hides.
- Raw jute.
- Jute yarn and goods.
- Molasses:
- Ethyl alcohol.
- Butyl alcohol.
- Acetic acid and anhydride.
- Paper making materials:
- Esparto.
- Straw.
- Woodpulp.
- Phosphate rock and superphosphates.
- Potash, carbonate of potash, and caustic potash.
- Pulpwood.
- Sulphur and pyrites.
- Timber:
- Plywood, imported softwood (except imported pitwood and imported boxboards), imported hardwood (except certain specialities) and imported backing veneers.
(3) Materials which cannot be acquired without a licence.
- Bristles (for brush making).
- *Cotton linters.
- Cotton yarn.
- Raw jute.
- Jute yarn.
- New Jute goods.
- *Dressed Leather.
- Linseed oil.
- Molasses:
- Ethyl alcohol.
- Butyl alcohol.
- Acetic acid and anhydride.
- Paper making materials: esparto, rags, straw.
- *Paper and Board.
- Pulpwood.
- *Silk yarn.
- Timber:
- Softwood (including sleepers, crossings, poles, boxboards).
- *Hardwood (certain species).
- Mining timber.
- Veneers.
- Unmanufactured tobacco.
- Willows.
- *Woodpulp.
- Wool rags, mungo, shoddy and waste.
- Wool tops, broken tops, noils, combing laps.
- Wool yarn.
- *Open licences in place of quantitative licences as announced on 22nd March, 1949.