Sugar Duties: Digest and Summary of Evidence Taken by the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Operation of the Present Scale of Sugar Duties (1862)
Sugar Duties: Digest and Summary of Evidence Taken by the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Operation of the Present Scale of Sugar Duties (1862)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...of West Indian sugar from this market, and that a great many estates in the West Indies would not be cultivated. It was admitted by Sir Thomas Freemantle that the change from an ad valorem duty upon tea, to an equalised duty, has not had the effect of driving the inferior teas from this market, but he thought the fact ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...of West Indian sugar from this market, and that a great many estates in the West Indies would not be cultivated. It was admitted by Sir Thomas Freemantle that the change from an ad valorem duty upon tea, to an equalised duty, has not had the effect of driving the inferior teas from this market, but he thought the fact of tea not being manufactured made all the difference between what would be the effect of a uniform duty upon that article, and upon sugar. With respectful submission to so eminent an authority, it would appear to an uninitiated observer that the circumstance of a most inferior sugar being capable of manufacture in this country into a very superior article, would offer a greater inducement for its importation here, than is offered to the importers of very inferior teas and tobaccoes which cannot be further improved. But admitting for the sake of argument that a uniform duty would have the effect attributed to it, and suppose the low descriptions of West India sugar to be excluded from this market, who Mould be injured by such a proceeding? They could only be excluded by their being replaced by better sugars, and as their place would be occupied by a superior article, the consumers would not sustain any injury. Mr. Rennie informed the committee, the producers of low 6ugars are not now receiving any advantage from their production, and that they do not pay at all; that many of the West Indian estates have gone out of cultivation, not on account of the sugar duties--they are not alleged to have exercised any influence in the matter--but in consequence of the inability of many of the West India proprietors to compete with slave labour; that by no alteration of the duties, could those estates be again brought into cultivation, there being a much gr...
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