group.

A small reduction in the rate was obtained on cars in the group of primary importance to the United States and on one other group. A small compensating increase was accepted on one group, and duties were bound on the remaining groups. Uruguay also bound against increase existing rates on chassis for passenger cars, trucks, and buses, on drivers' cabs for trucks, on trailers, and on over 35 tariff classifications covering most automotive parts for replacement and assembly, including motor parts.

Aircraft and Parts

Sweden bound a 15 per cent duty on aircraft with motors. Denmark bound a 7 per cent rate on aircraft except those used in international traffic, which were bound free. Similarly, engines and parts and aluminum parts for aircraft were bound either free or at low rates. Finland will continue to grant duty-free treatment of airplane engines for installation in aircraft for specific uses or of a type not manufactured domestically. Nicaragua bound free of duty aircraft for public service. Uruguay also bound on the free list: airplanes, parts for replacement or assembly of aircraft, and light aircraft motors and parts including electrical apparatus.

Industrial Machinery

Sweden bound existing duties on certain metal-working machines, and will continue duty-free treatment on others. The 10 per cent duty on continuous casting-wheel machinery and slag-handling machinery was eliminated, and the 10 per cent duty was bound on: excavating machines, motor road graders, and certain other machines for road work, pneumatic machinery and tools except rock drills, non-electric refrigerating apparatus, air compressors and parts, machinery and equipment for laundry and dry-cleaning establishments, and parts for machinery not elsewhere specified. Duty-free treatment will be continued on typesetting machines.

Denmark bound against increase the 5 per cent rate on refrigerating machines, graders, earth movers, road rollers, excavators, concrete mixers, bulldozers, and other machines for contractors' use, and most internal combustion engines. A rate of 7 per cent was bound on these machines when fitted with electric motors. Parts of these machines will be subject to a ceiling of 5 per cent, and electric motors and generators for such machines will enter at 7 per cent. Finland granted a 12 per cent rate on internal combustion engines weighing up to 500 kilos, and a 10 per cent rate on air compressors. Printing presses and lithograph machines were bound free, mechanical refrigerators at 10 per cent, and refrigerating machines at 8 per cent. Numerous kinds of industrial machines and parts will benefit from the new 10 per cent duty on miscellaneous large and small machinery and on a wide range of parts.

Italy established favorable rates on several types of industrial machinery, including: machine tools, 7 to 17 per cent, mining machinery

Electrical Machinery and Appliances

Sweden bound moderate duties on small electric motors, electric fans, pumps, washing and dish-washing machines, and other electro-mechanical combinations weighing 100 kilos or less, certain electrical control apparatus, stators, rotors, current collectors, etc., and electro-medical and radiological apparatus. Sweden also bound free of duty X-ray tubes and rectifying valves, and bound graphited carbons free or at a moderate rate. The 10 per cent rate on household refrigerators was also bound. Denmark bound the 7 per cent rate on household refrigerators and motors for the same, and on electric motors and generators for use on automotive vehicles, aircraft, refrigerating machinery, office machines, and road-making and contractors' machinery of all kinds. Finland established a 10 per cent rate on refrigerators.

Italy established favorable rates on refrigerators, refrigerating and air-conditioning equipment and parts, radio and television equipment and parts, radio-phonographs, direction finders, television cameras, radio receiving tubes, various types of thermoionic tubes, hearing devices, and ventilators and air exhaust apparatus, Greece reduced the duty on table model radio receivers to 16 per cent ad valorem, and the rate on other types of radio and television apparatus and parts to 20 per cent. The rates on electric refrigerators and refrigerating units were bound at approximately their 1938 ad valorem equivalent of 17 per cent.

Haiti bound the present moderate duties on electrical machinery, apparatus, and appliances for industrial use, and on radios and parts. The Dominican Republic reduced the duties on radio transmitting and receiving apparatus and parts, and on radio-phonographs, and bound against increase the 5 per cent rate on dynamos, generators, and other machinery for generating electricity, transformers, and electric motors and parts. The duty on electric fans, ventilators, water heaters, and other similar electrical apparatus was also bound. Nicaragua reduced the duty on X-ray equipment to 15 per cent, bound the rates on batteries of all kinds and radio transmitting and receiving tubes, and established moderate duty ceilings on table radio sets, transformers, sockets, outlets, light bulbs, generating apparatus, and motors. Uruguay bound existing rates on household refrigerators and on refrigerating mechanisms for industrial establishments, and reduced by 30 per cent the duty on other refrigerating mechanisms, Uruguay also bound the moderate duties on dish-washing machines, washing and ironing machines, and electric generating plants.

Office Machines and Equipment

Sweden bound a moderate rate of 10 per cent (or the approximate equivalent) on punch card and bookkeeping machines, typewriters, calculating machines, cash registers, safes, safety vaults, and filing cabinets. Denmark bound a 5 per cent rate (7 per cent if fitted with electric motors)

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on typewriters, calculating and adding machines, cash registers, bookkeeping and accounting machines, statistical machines, and check-protecting and duplicating machines. Finland established a rate of 5 per cent on typewriters, calculating machines, cash registers, duplicating machines, and other office machines, including those operated electrically. If these machines are of a type not manufactured in Finland, they will enter at 2 per cent. A rate of 15 per cent was obtained on filing cabinets.

Italy reduced the duty on typewriters to 22 per cent from the 1938 level of about 40 per cent, and the rate on cash registers to 22 per cent from about 62 per cent. The rates obtained on adding, calculating, and accounting machines range from 15 to 20 per cent; on check-writing machines, 15 per cent; on duplicating machines, 22 per cent; on metal office chairs, 20 to 22 per cent; and on steel filing cabinets, 20 per cent. Greece established a 14 per cent rate on typewriters, and an 8 per cent rate on adding and calculating machines and cash registers.

Haiti bound the present rate of 20 per cent on calculating and other computing machines including parts, accessories, and ribbons. The Dominican Republic bound existing rates on typewriters and covers, cash registers, numbering machines, adding, calculating, and bookkeeping machines and parts including ribbons, dictaphones and cylinders, hectographs, mimeographs, other duplicators, addressing machines, and other office machines. Nicaragua bound the existing moderate duties on typewriters and parts, adding machines, and other computing apparatus and parts, including ribbons. Uruguay bound favorable rates on typewriters and parts, cash registers and parts, and on calculating, accounting, and bookkeeping machines weighing over 2 kilos and parts for the same.

Metals and Metal Manufactures

Sweden bound moderate rates on certain fittings of iron and other materials, for machinery, apparatus, or pipelines, including valves and cocks not chiefly of iron. It also bound low to moderate specific rates on the following commodities, reserving the right to convert these specifics to ad valorem rates ranging from 5 to 15 per cent: cylinders, slide boxes and pistons for steam engines, motors, refrigerators, pumps, fire engines, and like machines; stainless iron or steel plates or sheets; hot-rolled iron or steel plates or sheets 3 mm. or more in thickness; cold-rolled steel plate, ground, polished, painted, nickelled, etc., less than 3 mm. thick; blades for rail and hack saws; drills, screwdrivers, ratchet braces, cutting compressors, and pipe cutters and parts. Sweden also bound the 15 per cent rate on taps, dies, die-stocks, and other threading tools.

Denmark bound a favorable rate on hacksaw and similar blades. Finland granted favorable ad valorem rates on several kinds of tools: drills and wrenches, 5 per cent; files and rasps, 10 per cent; and planes and chisels, 8 per cent. Surgical and medical instruments and parts were bound duty free.