‘FOREIGN ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL Poticy § 743

licensing control at the main season of home production. Pulp, paper
and board will be added to the list on April 1, 1950. This deferment
was considered necessary to coincide with the reversion of the buying
of paper-making materials to private trade.

Open general licenses cover products imported from four areas, a
separate list being issued for the items which may come from each
area.

1). Goods consigned from any country. This list includes products
for which import control is either impracticable or undesirable, and
of little trade importance, such as fresh shell fish (other than frozen) ;
books and periodicals in single copies sent through the mails; seaweed ;
ivory (animal); architectural or engineering designs; press photo-
graphs; newspapers; exposed cinematograph films; hydrographic
charts; maps and. plans; gold bullion and coin, and gold ores, con-
centrates,and residues. ee | |

2). Goods consigned from any part of the British Commonwealth.
This list is very short, and comprises the following: Live animals,
quadruped, other than horses; flower bulbs, corms and tubers, and
anemones; rough, precious and semiprecious stones; tin, in blocks,
ingots, bars and slabs, wool, sheep’s and lambs’, raw, (sliped or skin
wool and wool in the fleece, greasy, washed, scoured or carbonized).

3). Goods consigned from Ireland. This list includes the following:
- Agricultural and vegetable seeds; beer; bog ore; fresh milk and
buttermilk; dairy machinery ; hydrocarbon oils, iron pyrites; jute bags
and sacks; paints and varnishes; religious emblems; road vehicles;
sand; yeast; and wood and timber in the round, hewn or square sawn.

4). Goods consigned from particular countries. This list comprises
items which are of little trade importance, and in the main are luxury
food items which contribute to better morale under a strict system of
rationing. It includes such products as walnut in shell imported from
France and Italy; dates from France, French Morocco, Algeria and
Tunisia; gherkins in brine from France, French Morocco, Algeria,
Tunisia or the Netherlands; fresh fish from Denmark, Ireland, France,
Holland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Spain or Sweden; preserved fruit,
crystallized, glacé, or metz, from France; silver-skinned onions from
the Netherlands; lace from Malta. — | |

Special Licenses a a
The bulk of British imports are subject to the granting of a special
license either by direct application to the Import Licensing Depart-
ment of the Board of Trade, or by application to the official commodity
control authorities of the Ministry of Supply or the Ministry of Food
who transmit approved applications to the Board of Trade for issue
of the licenses. ae Oo rs

Under the British Token Import Plan, licenses are granted auto- —
matically by the Board of Trade for specified manufactured goods
imported from certain countries (including the United States) up
to 20 percent of the average annual value of the individual manu-