Government of India Department of Commerce: Report of the Indian Tariff Board on the Continuance of Protection to the Sugar Industry

Thei proceedings of the Legislative Assembly leading to the grant of the extension were explained to the conference with a view to indicating the context in which the extension had been agreed to and the justification that would be derma ded in the event of Government proposing further extension in respect of the expiring protective duties. [...] prices the incidence of the protective duty exclusive of the countervailing duty equivalent to the excise duty levied in 1939 was of the order of 18) per cent showing thereby that the gap between the c.i.f. [...] The representatives of prducers did not at all accept the view that control had been beneficial to the iadusti y. They asserted that control had been responsible for a reduction in the suply of sugarcane to the factory with a consequent decline in output that it had not succeeded in effectively controlling the pi ice of gun with the rsult that the supplof cane even in the factory areas [...] A statement showing the number of sugar factories actually working and the production of sugar from 1931-32 to 1945-46 is given in Appendix V. The Sugar Panel appointed by the Departnaentof Planning and Development of the Government of India estimates the present capacity of the industry at 10 80 000 tons. [...] which sugarcane reaches the factory depending upon the state of maturity of the cane the distance of the cane field from the factory and the nature of transport.