The Sugar Question in 1901

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H. Rees, 1901 - 140 páginas

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Página 112 - ... or otherwise, there shall be levied and paid, In all such cases, In addition to the duties otherwise Imposed by this act, an additional duty equal to the net amount of such bounty or grant, however the same be paid or bestowed.
Página 111 - ... thirty-five one-thousandths of one cent per pound additional, and fractions of a degree in proportion ; and on sugar above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, and on all sugar which has gone through a process of refining, one cent and ninety one-hundredths of one cent per pound...
Página 111 - OF. 209. Sugars not above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the...
Página 111 - ... of one cent per pound additional, and fractions of a degree in proportion ; and on sugar above number sixteen Dutch standard in color, and on all sugar which has gone through a process of refining, one cent and ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound ; molasses testing above forty degrees.
Página 64 - ... the business and political leaders were at least of the fourth generation of their paternal lines to reside in America; many were of the seventh and even the eighth generations. Colonial families were represented by 73 per cent of the business leaders and 79 per cent of those in politics.39 Fifty-six per cent of the former and 47 per cent of the latter were of families that had settled in America in the seventeenth century. Even were they not of colonial ancestry, most of these leaders could...
Página 31 - ... being made in favour of each mill. In other words, the sugar produced in excess of the quantity required stated by the Government pays twice the amount of the excise. Each manufacturing or refining firm must have a certain compulsory amount of stock, fixed for each season by the...
Página 31 - Council fixes every year the probable sugar consumption of the country. This quantity is divided between the various factories according to their average output, and all sugar manufactured beyond the stated quantity will have to pay in addition to the actual excise duty of 1 rouble 75...
Página 32 - That quantity will be determined by comparing each factory's total production with that of other firms. Thus it is to the interest of each manufacturer to increase his output, for the price at 48 fr.
Página 31 - It will not be subject to a surtax. When the sugar is exported the excise duty and the surtax on the surplus production will be refunded. But the surtax on the surplus quantity is never reimbursed if the sugar is sold for home consumption. The manufacturer cannot possibly sell his surplus...
Página 24 - Austrian sugar manufacturers have arranged with the refiners not to supply any sugar for home consumption. In return, all the refiners have agreed to pay 15 florins per 100 kilog., 88% (31 fr. 50), to the sugar manufacturers for every quantity of raw sugar used for home consumption.

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