B.S.I. Duties
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Doubled on Goods of Foreign Origin
A RADIOGRAM received in Sydney on December 16 announced that the Solomon Islands Administration has doubled the import duties on all goods of foreign origin as from December 13.
The B.S.I. tariff, as published officially in 1932, had a fairly limited list of goods carrying around per cent, ad valorem, with special rates on luxury lines; and a long list of articles which entered free.
We understand that a considerable propor tion of the articles on the free list will now have to pay duty, when they are of non-British origin.
In a normal year, B.S.I. imports goods worth £250,000, the origin of which is about as follows:—Australia, £95,000; Burma (rice), £17,000; India, £15,000; Britain, £30,000; United States, £40,000.
The new rates, therefore, will affect mostly U.S.A. goods, and also a large and grow ing trade which has developed recently with China and Japan.
Details should be available by next mail.
Mr, F. E. Johnson, Treasurer of the Solomon Islands Administration, arrived in Sydney by the December “Mataram,” and will spend five months’ leave in Aus tralia.