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Indian Tariff Board. Statutory Enquiry-1933 Steel Industry Written Evidence given by the Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited before the Indian Tariff Board

1934

I am raising that for this reason that when we are trying to estimate the effect of the policy of protection in the past it is necessary for us to have a fairly clear idea as to the way in which prices have reacted upon the volume of production and the consumption in the country. [...] It is obviously out of the question to take your average price of finished steel because the average price has been affected to a great extent by the variation in the distribtion of the output of different classes of products. [...] That would roughly be the position; that is to say if we recommended the continuance of protection that would be cofined to the classes of steel that you are snaking and there would be an implication that at the end of the period which we fixed the protective duties might lapse altogether. [...] Further there is this that if by the end of this hypothetical seven years period the masufacture of steel has developed in such a way and the progress and efficiency has been such that the existing forms of protected steel can then be made without the necessity of proteciion it is reasonable to presume that other forms of steel may also be made without protection. [...] 118 page 47 of the representation we say in the Company's circumstances the Duplex process is the cheaper prcess ". The reason for that is not that it is due to circumstances in India of a climatic nature or anything of that kind but that the Duplex process is favoured by the low cost of making pig iron in India.
commerce industry
Pages
269
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143908
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Frontmatter
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The Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited.Evidence of Messrs. A. R. Dalal R. Mather and J. C. Mahindra representing the Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited recorded at Calcutta on Monday the 20th November 1933
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The Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited. Evidence of Messrs. A. R. Dalal R. Mather and J. C. Mahindra recorded at Calcutta on Thursday the 11th January 1934
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