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THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



of a few pounds worth of copper tubing to that season may not onl,v be disastrous to the 

 enable the work to be completed and shijii^ed planter but may prejudice the manufacturer 

 in time for a coming crop. Apart from new in his eyes for any future orders. It may also 

 orders, there are numerous cases of urgent in the case of sugar interests within the 

 repair work suffering like delays, work to the Empire result in failure to obtain monetaiy 

 order of planters who have contracted with i)rofits which otherwise would be a welcome 

 our Government to supply them with sugar, addition to the wealth of the Empii-e when 

 and which repairs or renewals are essential to that wealth means everything in our present 

 enable the sugar manufacturers to produce the struggle. For these reasons it is earnestly to 

 sugar promised. be hoped that the Board of Trade and the 

 It is all the more imijortant that sugar Minister of Munitions will not shelve con- 

 machinery engineers should not suffer without sideration of these matters on the ground that 

 a very good cause from such delays, inasmuch the war problem is too pressing. Any such 

 as the orders they receive are usually placed restricted policy might in the end cost the 

 with a view to their l^eing ready for a given country more than it gains. — IntenuUionnl 

 season, and any failure to deliver in time for Sugar Joxnidl. 



THE NEW BRITISH SUGAR DUTIES 



The revised sugar duties provided for in the Budget presented to the House of Commons 

 by Mr. }kIcKenna on September 21st and passed into law are as follows: 



Customs Excise 



£ s. d. £ s. d. 



Sugar of a polarization exceeding 98 degrees, the ewt 9 4 7 



Sugar of a polarization not exceeding 76 degrees, the cwt 4 6 3 4 



and intermediate duties varying between Cs. 4d. and 4s. 

 6d. on sugar of a polarization not exceeding 98 degrees and 

 exceeding 76 degrees; 

 Molasses (including all sugar and extracts from sugar which 

 cannot be tested Iw the polariscope) :• — ■ 



If containing 70 per cent or more of sweetening 



matter, the cwt ."> 11 () 4 5 



If containing less than 70 per cent and more than .")() 



per cent of sweetening matter, the cwt 4 3 3 2 



If containing not more than 50 per cent of sweetening 



matter, the cwt 2 1 1 7 



Glucose : — • 



Solid, the cwt '-, 11 5 11 



Liquid, the cwt 4 3 4 3 



Saccharin (including substances of a like nature or use), the oz. 3 .3 () 



and so in proportion for any less quantity. 



The effect of these rates of duty is to give to British manufactured sugar a preference of 

 '2s. 4d. per cwt. or not far short of the maximum allowable under the provisions of the Surtax 

 •fixed by the Brussels Sugar Convention. 



It is also provided that in future any manufacturer of sugar within the United Kingdom 

 will have to take out annually a license costing £1. 



The new rate on sugar is equivalent to Id. per lb. but owing to an arrangement made with 

 the Royal Commission of Sugar Supplies the price of sugar is to be reduced sufficiently to allow 

 the increased cost to the consumer to be no more than ^^d. per lb. The anticipated Revenue 

 from the increase in the Sugar Tax is put at £11,700,000 for a full year's consumption, as com- 

 pared with al)out £3,000,000 under the old rates.—InternatioNal Sugar Journal. 



