Report of the Indian Tariff Board on the Grant of Protection to the Paper and Paper Pulp Industries

1. Beginning of paper Industry. 1 2 Tariff Board of 1925. 1 8. Bamboo Paper Industry (Protection) Act of 1925. 1 4. Tariff Board of 1927. 2 6. Changes in 1 1 in rates of duty. 2 6. Tariff Board of 1931. 2 71 Bamboo Paper Industry (Protection) Act of 1932. 3 8. Principle of classification proposed. 3 9. Ottawa Agreement. 3 10. [...] Alkali process of manufacture. 26 M. Blejphing process. 26 W. Cost of manufacture of pulp. ze 34. [...] APPENDIX A.--Quantities of auxiliary materials used by mills in 1986-87. 79 APPENDIX B.—Funds urgently required by the Paper Pulp Section of the Forest Research Institute. 81 APPENDIX C.—Description of the process of manufacture of paper and pulp as practised in Madras. 83 AP▪ PENDIX D.—Cost of making 9 reams of local handmade paper (size 178 x 278) containing 40 per cent. [...] This matter has accordingly been enquired into departmentally but owing to the coplicated nature of the data to be examined and in view of the imminence of this further enquiry by the Tariff Board into the whole question of protection to the Industry the Government of India have taken no action in regard to the surcharge. [...] In referring the question of the continuance of protection to the Paper Industry to the Tariff Board the Government of India stated that it was open to the Tariff Board to submit recommendtions relating to the revenue surcharge on the protective duties in advance of its main report.