Indian Tariff Board. Evidence recorded during the enquiry regarding Grant of Protection to the Cement Industry

The second stage is the publication of the evidence both written and oral tendered by the applicants for protection and the third stage is to receive the evidence of all who wish to be heard regarding the claims made after they have had an opportunity of studying the published evidence. [...] On this account the Board decided that all the oral evidence during the first stage of the enquiry should be taken at Simla the headquarters of the Board. [...] In a communique dated the 17th April 1924 the Tariff Board outlined the procedure they had decided to adopt in their enquiries into the industries referred to them in the Resolution of the Goverment of India in the Commerce Department No. [...] From what distance is the fuel brought and what is the free-on-truck price in the case of coal and in the case of other fuel at the source of supply? [...] Do vou consider that the Indian manufacturer of cement is at a disaayautage owing to : — ) the distance between the sources of fuel and the areas where the raw materials are found and (b) the distance between the factory and the principal markets?