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Council of State Debates Thursday 19th September 1929 Official Report

1929

In the other house on the discussion of the Budget on the 12th March 1928 the question of the abolition of the export duty on rice was raised by means of a token cut by the Honourable U. Tok Kyi "EXPORT DUTY ON RICE. [...] There is now a demand by the public of Burma for further consideration of the question ; and the view that the duty is not to the disadvantage of the producer is no longer general. [...] It will be within the knowledge of the Government of India that on the motion of the representative of the Burma Chamber of Commerce the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India and Ceylon recently adopted a resolution advocating the immediate abolition of the duty on the ground that it falls entirely on the cultivator. [...] If it is found that the duty falls wholly or mainly on the producer the question of the substitution for it of a cess to be applied to the improvement of the cultivation milling and marketing of rice and to other objects in aid of the rice cultivator might be considered. [...] In this connection the following facts and figures may be of interest The prosperity of the Burma rice trade depends on two important factors firstly the demand for Burma rice from India proper and secondly the strength of the demand of the world's markets for rice and the extent of competing supplies.
government politics public policy
Pages
46
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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Council of State Debates Thursday 19th September 1929 Official Report
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