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Report of the Indian Tariff Board regarding the Grant of Protection to the Plywood and Tea Chest Industry

1927

3. After examining the Conservator of Forests Assam at Shillong on the subject of the available supplies of timber suitable for the industry the Board visited the ply Location of the fatorie8 wood factories of the two companies in that province. [...] On the 27th July the Board issued the following communique : — The Government of India has directed the Indian Tariff Board to investigate the question of granting protection to the Ply Wood and Tea' Chest industry in India. [...] preparation of the plies was a laborious operation and it was not until the invention of the circular saw towards the close of the 19th century and still later of rotary cutting that the commercial possibilities of ply wood became apparent. [...] Since the heart of the wood is usually unsuitable for the manufacture of ply wood. care has to be exercised to see that the chucks are placed in the centre of the heart which does not always correspond to the centre of the log. [...] a matter of great national imBortance that the shipment of tea should be maintained and in 1917 at the request—as we are informed—of the Munitions Bird the Surma Valley Saw Mills determined to undertake the manufacture of ply wood and obtained a. first class certificate of priority for the import of the necessary plant.
commerce industry
Pages
67
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143921
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Chapter I. Introductory
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Chapter II. Process of Manufacture. History of the Industry in India
6-12 unknown view
Chapter III. Suitability of the Industry for Protection
13-23 unknown view
Chapter IV. Measure of Protection
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Chapter V. Method of Protection
34-45 unknown view
Chapter VI. Supplementary Proposals—Period of Protection—Summary
46-51 unknown view
Draft of Changes or Additions to Schedules II and III of the Indian Tariff Act 1894 (VIII of 1894) Necessitated by the Board’s Proposals
52-54 unknown view
Appendix
55-61 unknown view

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