Government of India. White Paper on Indo-Pakistan Trade Relations (Annexures)

The Government of India have considered the Aide-Memoirs of the Pakistan Government in the light of those discussions and the further discussions which you and Sir Victor Turner had with the Hon 'ble the Finance Minister on Tuesday the 21st October and have 'instructed me to present the enclosed AidMemoirs on the subject. [...].rn the light of the subsequent discussions which took place between the officials of the Government of India and the Governm6nt of Pakistan on the subject the Government of India consider that under the present12 arrangements which cover the period from 15th August 1947 to 81st March 1948 each of the Dominions is entitled as a Sovereign State to: the taxes which it levies and collects withi [...] and F. T./47.—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the Indian Tariff Act 1934 (XXXII of 1934) the Government of Pakistan declares the Dominion of India to be foreign territory for the13 purposes of the said section and directs that a duty of customs at the rate prescribed by or under the said Act in respect of any of the folloing' articles when exported from a port in the Domi [...] The Government of India are therefore surprised that the only reply of the Pakistan Government to the reasonable offer of the Government of India has been a unilateral action by that Government levying immediately a duty on jute exported from Pakistan to India and a misrepresentation of the Government of India's attitude as unreasonable. [...] 184-T(59)/47.—In exercise of the powers conferred by 'section 5 of the Indian Tariff Act 1934 (XXX II of 1934) the Central Government is >pleased to declare the Dominion of Pakistan to be foreign territory for the purposes of the said section and to direct that on and from the 23rd December 1947 a duty of Customs at the rate prescribed by or under 'the said Act or any other law for the time bein