Government of India Ministry of Commerce. Report of the Indian Tariff Board on the Expanded Metal Industry Bombay 1949

In making its recommendations the Board has to give due weight to the interests of the consumer in the light of the prevailing conditions and also consider how the recommendations affect industries using the articleis ju respect of which protection is to be granted 2 3. (a) The Board issued a press communique on.6.6t May 1947 inviMethod of inquiry. [...] As a result of these arrangements the sheets now supplied to the producers of expanded metal are generally tested and certified by the Government Metallurgical Department Nevertheless the supply of steel is not sufficient to meet the total requirements of the manufacturers. [...] The Engineering Association of India has represented that the allotment of steel made by the Iron and Steel Controller had been much below the requirements of the productive capacity of the manufacturers and that the allotment had not been uniformly the same during different quota periods with the result that the cost of production had been adversely Effected. [...] The Engineering Association of India in its original memorandum to the Department of Commerce had estimated the productive capacity of the indigenous fatories to be 3 600 tons per annum on the baths of a single shift The Association subsequently stated in its revised memorandum that the total production of all the factories was now between 1 700 and 1 800 tons per annum and that their total ann [...] (a) It was generally agreed by the consumers that the quality of the indigenous expanded metal was as good as Quality of the indigenous that of the imported material.