III. Independently of the duties of Customs stipulated in the Tariff annexed to the present Convention, and by application of Articles I and IX of the Treaty concluded between the High Contracting Powers on the 23rd of January last, the undermentioned articles of British origin or manufacture shall, on their importation into France, and by way of compensation for equivalent duties paid by French manufacturers, be subjected to the supplementary duties hereinafter prescribed:

Chloride of magnesium

Plate glass or large mirrors

...

Crystallized or hydrate 2

...

4

35

6

0

5 40

10

6 0

11

3

0

Glass ware, window glass, and other white glass... 3
Bottles

...

Salts or raw residue of the calcination of beet-root

Soap: White or marbled, composed of alkalis and
oil of olives, or oleaginous seeds, pure or
mixed with animal fat-

The oil composing at least half of the
mixture of oleaginous bodies

The oil composing less than half of the
mixture of oleaginous bodies

Of animal fat: Pure

...

... 8 20

6

6

...

6

4

0

Coloured, composed of oils from seeds or of
animal fat

...

...

Spirits of wine varnish, per hectolitre of pure alcohol contained in the varnish

...

It is understood that refined sugar is not comprised in this list, because the duty of 41 francs per 100 kilogrammes, fixed on the importation of that article, includes the duty on consumption with which it is now charged in France.

It is equally agreed between the High Contracting Powers that in the event of the modification or the suppression of the duties of excise now imposed upon French manufacturers, goods of British origin and manufacture shall, with regard to such duties

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of excise, be subjected to the same conditions as similar French goods. If, however, in consequence of the suppression of any of such duties, the Government should establish a supervision or control, or an administrative system over certain articles of French manufacture, the direct or indirect charges which may be borne by the French manufacturer shall be countervailed by an equivalent surtax imposed upon similar British articles. It is further understood, that if drawbacks are granted to other articles of French manufacture, the duties of Customs which are imposed upon similar articles of British origin or manufacture shall be augmented by a surtax equal to the amount of the drawbacks.

IV. With regard to pure and mixed tissues taxed ad valorem, the valuation of which may appear to the French Government to present difficulties, they reserve to themselves the power to designate the Custom-house of Paris exclusively for the admission of such goods.

V. Each of the High Contracting Powers engages to extend to the other any favour, any privilege or diminution of Tariff which either of them may grant to a third Power in regard to the importation of goods mentioned, or not mentioned, in the Treaty of the 23rd of January, 1860.

VI. The Tariff annexed to the present Convention shall come into force within a time which shall not be later than the 1st of June, 1861, for yarns and tissues of flax, hemp, and jute, and the 1st of October following for all other articles.

VII. The present Convention shall have the same duration as the Treaty concluded between the High Contracting Parties on the 23rd of January last,* of which it is a complement.

VIII. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris within 15 days, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done in duplicate, at Paris, the 16th day of November, 1860.

(L.S.) COWLEY.

(L.S.) RICHARD COBDEN.

(L.S.) E. A. THOUVENEL. (L.S.) F. ROUher.

* See Page 165

Tariff annexed to the Supplementary Convention of Commerce between Great Britain and France, signed, in English and French, at Paris, November 16, 1860.

Yarns and tissues of jute mixed with other materials will pay the same duties as pure yarns and tissues of jute, provided that the jute predominates in weight. Vegetable fibres: Phormium tenax, abaca, and other vegetable fibres not specified: Filaments: Raw or stripped... Combed or twisted

Horsehair, raw, of all kinds, prepared or curled

Tissues and manufactures of horsehair,
pure or mixed

Cottons: Cotton, raw, imported direct
from British India, or from
British entrepôts, in British
or French vessels
Cotton, in sheets, carded or
gummed (wadding)...
Cotton yarn,single: Unbleached:
Of 20,000 mètres or less to the
half kilogramme

Of 21,000 to 30,000

15 per cent. above the duties on unbleached. 25 centimes per kilogramme above the duties on unbleached.

Twisted in two strands: Un- 50 per cent. above the duties on single yarn

Yarns of 3 threads, grey,
bleached, or dyed: Single
twist

Double or cable twist
Cotton tissues, plain, twilled,
and ticks, unbleached:

1st Class, weighing 11 kilo-
grammes or more the 100
mètres square:

Of 35 threads and less to
the 5 square millimètres
Of 36 threads and above)

15 per cent. above twisted unbleached. 25 centimes per kilogramme above twisted unbleached.

50 per cent. above the duties on single unbleached yarn.

15 per cent. above the duties on unbleached warped yarns.

25 centimes per kilogramme above the duties on unbleached warped yarns.