COMPARISON OF TARIFF ACTS.

ACT OF 1922.

An Act To provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries, to encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE I.-DUTIABLE LIST.

SECTION 1. That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are prescribed by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this title, namely:

Title I.

DUTIABLE LIST.

SCHEDULE 1.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

PARAGRAPH 1.

ACT OF 1922.

PAR. 1. Acids and acid anhydrides: Acetic acid containing by weight not more than 65 per centum of acetic acid, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; containing by weight more than 65 per centum, 2 cents per pound; acetic anhydride, 5 cents. per pound; boric acid, 14 cents per pound; chloroacetic acid, 5 cents per pound; citric acid, 17 cents per pound; lactic acid, containing by weight of lactic acid less than 30 per centum, 2 cents per pound; 30 per centum or more and less than 55 per centum, 4 cents per pound; and 55 per centum or more, 9 cents per pound: Provided, That any lactic-acid anhydride present shall be determined as lactic acid and included as such: And provided further, That the duty on lactic acid shall not be less than 25 per centum ad valorem; tannic acid, tannin, and extracts of nutgalls, containing by weight of tannic acid less than 50 per centum, 4 cents per pound; 50 per centum or more and not medicinal, 10 cents per pound; 50 per centum or more and medicinal, 20 cents per pound; tartaric acid, 6 cents per pound; arsenic acid, 3 cents per pound; gallic acid, 8 cents per pound; oleic acid or red oil, 13 cents per pound; oxalic acid, 4 cents per pound; phosphoric acid, 2 cents per pound; pyrogallic acid, 12 cents per pound; stearic acid, 1 cents per pound; and all other acids and acid anhydrides not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.

ACT OF 1909.

SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND
PAINTS.

PAR. 1. Acids: Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven onethousandths, three-fourths of one cent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, two cents per pound; acetic anhydrid, two and one-half cents per pound; boracic acid, three cents per pound; * * * citric acid, seven cents per pound; lactic acid, containing not over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, two cents per pound; containing over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, three cents per pound; oxalic acid, two cents per pound; * * * tan

nic acid or tannin, thirty-five cents per pound; gallic acid, eight cents per

ACT OF 1913.

SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND
PAINTS.

PAR. 1. Acids: Boracic acid, cent per pound; citric acid, 5 cents per pound; formic acid, 1 cents per pound; gallic acid, 6 cents per pound; lactic acid, 1 cents per pound; oxalic acid, 1 cents per pound; pyrogallic acid, 12 cents per pound; * * * tannic acid and tannin, 5 cents per pound; tartaric acid, 3 cents per pound; all other acids and acid anhydrides not specially provided for in this section, 15 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 2. Acetic anhydrid, 2 cents per pound.

PAR. 2. Acetaldehyde, aldol or acetaldol, aldehyde ammonia, butyraldehyde, crotonaldehyde, paracetaldehyde, ethylene chlorohydrin, ethylene dichloride, ethylene glycol, ethylene oxide, glycol monoacetate, propylene chlorohydrin, propylene dichloride, and propylene glycol, 6 cents per pound and 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 3. Acetone, acetone oil, and ethyl methyl ketone, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 4. Alcohol: Amyl, butyl, propyl, and fusel oil, 6 cents per pound; methyl or wood (or methanol), 12 cents per gallon; and ethyl for nonbeverage purposes only, 15 cents per gallon.