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producer or importer gets paid for.* It follows, therefore, that the 

 less Tea declared by Customs means a loss to producer and a gain to 

 buyer. To the latter in two ways, viz., less Tea to pay for than is 

 really there, and a saving of 6d. per Ib. duty ! But to show, now, how 

 the loss occurs. When weighing for gross, the fractions of a pound 

 are discarded ; when weighing for tares, the pounds above the actual 

 weight are written. The greatest loss that can occur by this method, 

 on one package, is i pound 14 ounces of Tea. It (this greatest loss) 

 must always occur when the gross is i ounce short of a pound, and the 

 tare i ounce more than the pound. 



No. i EXAMPLE. 



Gross and tare can be put at any figures as to pounds. It will 

 always come out the same. Say, therefore, 



Ibs. oz. 



Gross 132 15 1 actual weights taken at 



Tare (deducted) ... 37 ij" Custom House. 



Actual Tea in chest 95 14 



By rule quoted the gross and tare weights are set down at 



Custom House 



Ibs. 



Gross 132 



Tare (deducted) ... 38 



Actual Tea thus paid for = 94 pounds on which duty is also paid. 

 Therefore the loss on the chest is i pound 14 ounces. 



The least loss that can take place (when ounces occur in gross 

 and tare) is 2 ounces. To insure this the gross must be i ounce more 

 than the pound, and the tare i ounce below. 



No. 2 EXAMPLE. 

 Say any figures in pounds. 



Ibs. oz. 



Gross 133 i) actual weights taken at 



Tare (deducted) ... 36 15) Custom House. 



Actual Tea in chest 96 2 



* If tares are nearly equal, and if Teas are well bulked in India, only 

 some packages (about 10 per cent.) are opened, and an average tare struck. 

 But this in no way saves the loss in quantity of Tea. though, of course, less 

 Tea is thus injured. 



