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Customs, etc. Act 1765

The act 5 Geo. 3. c. 45, sometimes called the Customs, etc. Act 1765, the Customs Act, the Duties Act, or the American Act, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The act aimed to encourage imports to Great Britain from its American dominions, under the system of Trade and Navigation Acts. The act encouraged the import of timber products; repealed the inland duty on coffee, imposed in 1758; imposed an inland duty on all coffee imported from foreign sources; altered the existing bounties and drawbacks on sugar exports; repealed part of the Iron Act, which prohibited bar iron made in the colonies from being exported from Great Britain, or carried along its coast; and regulated the fees of the customs officers in the colonies.

Subsequent developments
So much of the act "which gave liberty to export rice from North Carolina, in the same manner, and under the like duties, securities, restrictions, regulations, limitations, duties, penalties, and forfeitures, as the Colonial Trade Act 1763 (4 Geo. 3. c. 27) with respect to carrying rice to South Carolina and Georgia was continued from the expiration of that enactment to the end of the next session of parliament after 24 June 1781 by section 2 of the Continuance of Laws Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3. c. 67). So much of the act "as relates to the regulating the Fees of the Officers of the Customs in America, and for extending the same to the Naval Officers there", was continued from the expiration of that enactment to the end of the next session of parliament after 29 September 1778 by section 12 of the Continuance of Laws, etc. Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3. c. 86). The whole act was repealed by section 117 of the Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 105). == Notes ==
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