Customs union conventions and tariff legislation¶


Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Union Parliament / Customs Union
Coverage	1903-1939
Works using it	5

Debates¶

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davies et al. (1976)	Customs Tariff Act of 1925	1925	Used as an index of the state's protective intervention for national capital (28 items newly protected).
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	Customs Union Convention, Bloemfontein, April 1903	1903	Gives the text of the Customs Union articles.
Lumby (1974)	Customs Tariff Acts and amending legislation 1914-1939; Customs Union Conventions 1903 and 1906; Export Subsidies Act 1931; Wage Act 1925 etc.	1903-1939	Establishes the tariff rates, dumping provisions and policy changes whose timing is correlated with industry growth.
Lumby (1974)	Government Gazette notices and proclamations (dumping duties, tariff, 1921-1939)	1921-1939	Dates and countries of dumping duties on cement and other goods, import prohibitions on footwear.
Schneider (2000)	Tariff Act of 1925	1925	Presented as the cornerstone of import-substitution policy, with tariff rates of 20-25 percent.
Spandau (1972)	Customs Tariff and Excise Duties Amendment Act, No. 36 of 1925, Section 4	1925	Shows that tariff protection was tied to civilized labour conditions, an additional policy instrument Pursell omitted.