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Mr. Oram
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state, for the last convenient year, the rates and amount of Customs duty paid on imports of office furniture, domestic furniture, domestic electric appliances, glassware and pottery, respectively, from each of the member countries of the European Economic Community.
Mr. Barber
Goods within these general descriptions are subject to duty at various rates, depending on the precise nature of each article involved. These are set out in detail in the Customs Tariff, but some of the principal rates are as follows:
Description | Rate (ad valorem except where otherwise stated) |
Office and domestic furniture of metal | generally 15 per cent. |
of other materials | 20 per cent. |
Domestic electric appliances | mainly from 10 per cent. to 17½ per cent. |
e.g. Cookers | 10 per cent. |
Refrigerators | 15 per cent. |
Hairdryers | 17½ per cent. |
Glassware | |
Laboratory | 33⅓ per cent. |
Domestic | generally 30 per cent. |
Other | generally 25 per cent. |
Pottery | |
Ordinary tableware and cooking utensils. | 25s. 0d. per cwt. |
Fancy and ornamental | 90s. 0d. per cwt. |
Domestic sanitary fittings | 25 per cent. |
Laboratory | 33⅓ per cent. |
Industrial | 20 per cent. |