The Tariff Laws of the United States: With Explanatory Notes, Citations from Decisions of the Courts and the Treasury Department |
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... rule should obtain as to the free list which is applied in other parts of the law , and that articles similar in material and use to those specifically named in the free list should be free of duty . - Rep . Tariff Commission , p . 35 ...
... rule should obtain as to the free list which is applied in other parts of the law , and that articles similar in material and use to those specifically named in the free list should be free of duty . - Rep . Tariff Commission , p . 35 ...
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... rules may be found ; but in these cases , as in that of sumac ( a raw material ) , a great injury would result to a large number of persons whose daily subsistence depends upon the gathering and sending to market of this plant . On the ...
... rules may be found ; but in these cases , as in that of sumac ( a raw material ) , a great injury would result to a large number of persons whose daily subsistence depends upon the gathering and sending to market of this plant . On the ...
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... rule generally followed of making the raw material free of duty . Sumac cut in fine chips , and intended for dyeing purposes , held dutiable as sumac , at ten per cent . ( S. 4461. ) Sumac extract , see note to 83 , infra . 99 1 The ...
... rule generally followed of making the raw material free of duty . Sumac cut in fine chips , and intended for dyeing purposes , held dutiable as sumac , at ten per cent . ( S. 4461. ) Sumac extract , see note to 83 , infra . 99 1 The ...
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... rule was changed as to bottles filled with articles free of duty , or liable to a specific duty . ( S. 3972 , 4022. ) The phraseology of the new law appears to relieve the question from obscurity , and to make citations from the many ...
... rule was changed as to bottles filled with articles free of duty , or liable to a specific duty . ( S. 3972 , 4022. ) The phraseology of the new law appears to relieve the question from obscurity , and to make citations from the many ...
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... lower , rate . The questions arising in applying this rule have been mainly questions of fact . In the late case of Potts v . Hartranft , U.S. Circuit [ Bar - iron , rolled or hammered , comprising 30 THE TARIFF LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES .
... lower , rate . The questions arising in applying this rule have been mainly questions of fact . In the late case of Potts v . Hartranft , U.S. Circuit [ Bar - iron , rolled or hammered , comprising 30 THE TARIFF LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES .
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addition thereto alpaca Arthur assessed bottles carpets casks cents per pound cents per square centum ad valorem chief value classed classification collector component material composed consignee copper cotton crude decision department holds drawback Dutch standard dutiable at twenty entitled to free enumerated or otherwise enumerated or provided exceeding exported fifty cents five cents flax former law forty per centum free entry free of duty glass Hawaiian Islands held dutiable held entitled hemp imported invoice iron or steel jute less material of chief merated merchandise metal one-half cents otherwise provided packages painted paragraph polariscope port potash prescribed rate of duty Revised Statutes rule salt schedule Secretary SECT silk specially enumerated square yard sugar Tariff Commission thereof thirty per centum thirty-five per centum thread three cents tion Treasury twenty per centum twenty-five per centum U.S. Circuit Court unenumerated manufactured article United valorem.¹ vessels wares wholly wire gauge wool yarn
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Page 146 - Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before the said repeal or modifications ; but all rights and liabilities under said laws shall continue and may be enforced in the same manner as if said repeal or modifications had not been made.
Page 88 - Clothing ready made, and wearing apparel of every description, and balmoral skirts and skirting, and goods of similar description, or used for like purposes, composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animals, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, except knit goods : fifty cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem.
Page 131 - ... or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States...
Page 155 - the Date at which it may come into operation, and further ' until the Expiration of Twelve Months after either of the ' High Contracting Parties shall give Notice to the other of ' its Wish to terminate the same...
Page 6 - That in consideration of the exemptions aforesaid all articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which no drawback of customs duties has been allowed therein, shall be admitted to the Philippine Islands from the United States free of duty...
Page 110 - That exporters of meats, whether packed or smoked, which have been cured in the United States with imported salt shall, upon satisfactory proof, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, that such meats have been cured with imported salt, have refunded to them from the Treasury the duties paid on the salt so used in curing such exported meats, in amounts not less than $100.
Page 6 - That a discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, or merchandise...
Page 143 - I, , do solemnly and truly declare that I am the owner of the merchandise described in the annexed entry and invoice; that the entry now delivered by me to the collector of contains a just and true account of all the goods, wares, and merchandise imported by or consigned to me, in the whereof is master, from ; that the invoice and entry which I now produce contain a just and faithful account of the actual cost...
Page 68 - No lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, collected, and paid on brandy, spirits, and other spirituous beverages, than that fixed by law for the description of first proof; but it shall be increased in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of first proof...
Page 146 - Act may be prosecuted or punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. No Acts of limitation now in force, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed by this Act...