SECTIONS 13 AND 22, PHILIPPINE TARIFF ACT OF MARCH 3, 1905. Sections 13 and 22 of the act approved March 3, 1905, entitled "An Act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," provide: SEC. 13. That on the following products of the Philippine Islands, when exported therefrom, there shall be levied and collected on the gross weight thereof export duties as follows: Abaca, raw or wrought hemp, one hundred kilos, seventy-five cents. Indigo, one hundred kilos, twenty-five cents. Indigo employed for dyeing ("tintarron"), one hundred kilos, two and one-half cents. Sugar, one hundred kilos, five cents. Cocoanuts, fresh and dried (copra), one hundred kilos, ten cents. Tobacco, manufactured, of all kinds and whatever origin, one hundred kilos, one dollar and fifty cents. Tobacco, raw, grown in the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, and Nueva Vizcaya (Luzon Island), one hundred kilos, one dollar and fifty cents. Tobacco, raw, grown in the Visayas and Mindanao Island, one hundred kilos, one dollar. Tobacco, raw, grown in other provinces of the archipelago, one hundred kilos, seventy-five cents. Certificates of origin of raw tobacco may be required by the customs authorities when proof of the place of production is necessary: Provided, That the rates of duty levied, collected, and paid upon products of the Philippine Islands coming into the United States shall be less any export duty or taxes levied, collected, and paid thereon upon the shipment thereof from the Philippine Islands, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe; but all articles the growth and product of the Philippine Islands admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty, and coming directly from said islands to the United States, for use and consumption therein, shall be exempt from any export duties imposed in the Philippine Islands. SEC. 22. That the entry of all importations at the ports of the Philippine Islands made subsequent to a period of sixty days from the date this revised tariff goes into force and effect, of goods, wares, and merchandise from countries other than the United States, when the value of such importation exceeds one hundred dollars, shall be accompanied by a consular invoice similar to that required for goods imported into the United States from foreign countries and executed as required for importations into the United States; and when brought into the Philippine Islands from the United States, such importations shall be accompanied by an invoice similar in form to the consular invoices required for importations into the United States, but in lieu of execution by a consul of the United States, such invoices shall be sworn to before a United States commissioner, collector of customs, or deputy collector of customs. |