MALAYSIA 



Item 



Tobacco: 



Unmanufactured 



Manufactured: 



Cigars and cheroots 



Cigarettes 



Snuff 



Other mfd. tobacco: 



In retail containers 



Not in retail containers: 



1. Mostly destined for power-driven manufacture . . 



2. Mostly destined for "cottage type" manufacture 



General rate 



1968 



Local currency 



Malayan dollar 

 per lb. 

 ^ 9.40 



16.00 



^ 12.50 



16.00 



10.00 



9.00 

 3.50 



Total duty, 

 U.S. equiv.i 



U.S. dol. 



per lb. 



3.07 



5.23 

 4.08 

 5.23 



3.27 



2.94 

 1.14 



1957 



, , Total duty, 



Local currency ,, „ . , 

 U.S. equiv.i 



Malayan dollar 

 per lb. 

 7.60 



11.00 

 10.50 

 11.00 



10.10 



8.00 

 3.50 



U.S. dol. 

 per lb. 

 2.48 



3.59 

 3.43 

 3.59 



3.30 



2.61 

 1.14 



^ Conversion rate, 1957 and 1968: 3.06 Malayan dollar = US$1.00. 

 ^ Effective Jan. 1, 1970. 



Note: Federation of Malaysia country is a union of Malaya, Sabah (formerly North Borneo), Sarawak, with the same duties. 

 All preferential import duty rates were discarded by Malaysia August 1, 1968. 



NANSEI AND NANPO ISLANDS (RYUKYU ISLANDS) 



The current import duty on leaf tobacco going into the Ryukyu Islands is $1.00 per lb. plus 30 percent ad 

 valorem. 



NEW HEBRIDES 



Item 



1968 



1957 



Specific rate 

 (local currency) 



Total duty, 

 U.S. equiv.i 



Ad valorem rate 



Total duty, 

 U.S. equiv. 



Tobacco: 

 Manufactured: 



Cigars 



Cigarettes . . . 

 Smoking. . . . 



Shilling 



per pound 



34 



16 



12 



U.S. dollar 

 per pound 



4.08 



1.92 



1.44 



Percent 

 50 

 50 

 30 



U.S. dollar 



per pound 



1.40 



.85 



.42 



^ Conversion rate, 1968: 1 pound sterling (20 shillings) = US$2.40. 



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