OF THE TARIFF ACTS OF 1909 AND SHOWING THE CLASSIFICATION, RATES OF DUTY AND SEC- RATES OF DUTY ON THE IMPORTS FOR THE Prepared under the direction of the Ways and Means Committee CONTENTS. A. Chemicals, oils, and paints. .. B. Earths, earthenware, and glassware. C. Metals and manufactures of.. E. Sugar, molasses, and manufactures of.. F. Tobacco and manufactures of... G. Agricultural products and provisions.. H. Spirits, wines, and other beverages. COMPARISON OF THE TARIFF ACTS OF 1909 AND 1913. [NOTES.-The abbreviation "n. e." means "not enumerated" by the tariff, and when it appears in the rate columns the rate stated is that fixed by a decision or ruling of the General Appraisers, courts, or Treas ury Department, and as far as possible such rates have been given. Where no rate appears it indicates the item is not enumerated. The abbreviation "n. s. p. f." means "not specially provided for." Where the text or classification materially changes in a paragraph the act of 1909 is given first. The equivalent ad valorem rates have been compiled from Commerce and Navigation of the United States, 1913, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce. The imports from Cuba have not been included in computing the equivalent ad valorem rates, except in the computations of sugar, molasses, tobacco, and manufactures of tobacco, honey, grape fruit, shaddocks, or pomelos, pineapples, and iron ore.] ACT OF AUGUST 5, 1909. AN ACT To provide revenue, equalize duties and 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, That on and after the day following the passage of this act, except as otherwise specially provided for in the second section of 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 and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable lists of this section prescribed, namely: ACT OF OCTOBER 3, 1913. AN ACT To reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this section prescribed, namely: DUTIABLE LIST. SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS. |