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9. Customs Tariffs and Import and Export
Prohibitions.
A: Customs Duties
The following table gives a survey of the approximate
number of customs rates, applicable to electrical goods in
different countries. It is noticeable that in the countries which
have high protective tariffs, the classification is most detailed.
By increasing the items, it is attempted to assimilate the
specific duties to an ad valorem duty.
Number of Customs Rates in force for Electrical Goods.
Countries
Argentine’... Ln
Belglom .'. oi. vii a
Germany. Lb Siti wn,
FRamee wiv: v viuileis roa mite dun
Dial ov oi Ta wn
Japan’. gi aes
ASLrIa SR che
No. of
Rates
90
55
40
3
71
110
110
70
Countries
Poland. . =...
Russi, hE
Sweden ive. vino.
Switzerland . ....... vo
SPAT cov oe ait oa
Czecho-Slovakia . . . . . .
United States of America
No. of
Rates
95
55
60
45
51
55
15 1)
1) The small number of rates in the United States of America is due to
the fact that there electrical goods are almost all subject to ad valorem duty.
For the purpose of investigating the customs dues, twenty
of the chief electrical importing countries were considered.
These countries together take about 85 9, of the world’s total
electrical imports. The same grouping was made in this case
as for the export trade previously dealt with. Including the
group “Apparatus and installation materials”, Europe ac-
counts for about 75 9, of the imports of the countries in
question. In subdividing the various groups according to
weight, the subdivision was made, as far as possible, to cor-
respond with the customs tariffs.
The customs dues are shown as percentages in the Appendix,
Table V 1 to 3. The duties are calculated, for 1913 and 1926