Italian duties on imports of French origin, &c.—Continued. Iron or steel, not tempered: In rods (comprising wire of 5 millimeters at least of diameter or of width). Plated or beaten (rods of more than 5 millimeters in diameter and....do bars of any dimensions). 4.62 ...do 8.00 Forged in anchors, axles of wagons, anvils, and other crude works......do 7.00 In railroad rails ....do 3.00 Of second manufacture, iron works, simple.. ...do 11.80 Garnished with other metals. Sheets of iron coated with tin, with zinc, or lead: Not worked.. Knives for the arts and trades, and knives with wooden handles,....do common, not garnished. 16.00 Utensils and instruments for the arts and agriculture and trades of Nickel, with its alloys with copper and zinc, in pieces, in cake, and scrap Tin and its alloys with lead and antimony: In cake, in pieces, and scraps Beaten in leaves of every kind.. In other works. Mercury. Metals and metallic alloys not named: In crude state In works of any kind ....do 4.00 ..do 10.00 ...do 60.00 Italian duties on imports of French origin, &c.—Continued. Articles. Unit. Duties on imports Freight railroad wagons CATEGORY XII.—Minerals, metals, and manufactures thereof. Machines, by steam: Stationary, with or without boilers, and hydraulic motors... Locomotives for railways and others, and machinery for navigation, with or without boilers. Not named and parts of machines.. Gasometers and their accessories Apparatuses of copper and other metals to heat, refine, to distill, &c. Passenger railroad carriages Gold: Of porcelain, gilt, or otherwise decorated do 32,00 Plates of glass or crystal, not polished, of thickness of 4 millimeters or more. For windows. .do 8.00 Polished, without quicksilver.. do 20.00 Looking glasses in frames, and plates of looking-glasses, polished and silvered, without tare. Colored or ground Works of glass and crystal, simply blown or melted, not colored nor ground nor cut. Bottles, common Per 100 3.00 Demijohns Alimentary or vegetable products: Glasses and crystals enameled, cut in beads, or in pierced pieces 100 kilograms. 3.00 do 30.00 Paste of wheat. Italian duties on imports of French origin, &c.—Continued. nished for ladies. Hats of felt.... Objects of fashion: Artificial flowers Materials for artificial flowers. Frames for articles of fashion. Hats of any other material except of straw, of felt, and those gar....do Hats of any quality garnished for ladies 100.00 Objects for collections Boracic acid Italian export duties established by the treaty of commerce with France. Per ton 22.00 Minerals of lead ....do 2.20 Mineral of copper. do 5.50 Sulphur.... Seeds, various Objects for collections ..do ..do 1. 10 (*) * The Italian Government reserves the right to establish an export duty on articles for collections. TARIFF ON COTTON-SEED OIL. Consul-General Richmond, of Rome, informs the Department that the law increasing the duty on imported cotton seed oil from 6 lire, the old tariff, to 20 lire per quintal, pure or mixed, and imposing a tax of 14 lire per quintal on cotton-seed oil manufactured in Italy went into effect on the 22d of April last. It was understood, however, at Rome that, in anticipation of the passage of this law, the importers of Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, and Venice had a six months' supply on hand when the new tariff took effect. TAX UPON COTTON-SEED OIL IN ITALY. REPORT BY CONSUL CRAIN, OF MILAN. The law passed by the Italian Parliament imposing a duty of 14 lire per quintal on all imports of cotton-seed oil was designed, as is known, for the protection of the olive-oil industry of Italy. The advocates of the measure claimed that the admixture of cotton oil with olive oil, and its sale as olive oil, was a direct damage to one of the largest agricultural interests of the country. The law in question went into operation on the 22d of April, 1881, and has brought results very different from those anticipated, as will be seen by the following: The monthly imports of cotton-seed oil from March 1, 1881, to March 1, 1882, were as follows: as follows: During the same months the exportation from Italy of olive oil was These figures would indicate that the importations of cotton-seed oil subsequent to April, 1881, were made under contracts which ran to January 1, 1882, from which date all importations practically ceased. They further show that the mixing of cotton oil with olive oil enabled the Italian dealers to find foreign markets for large and always increasing quantities of Italian olive oil; but that the exportation of olive oil almost entirely ceased with the stoppage of the supply of cotton oil. Mr. A. Rossi, to whom I am indebted for these data, and who is one of the ablest of Italian writers on questions of political economy, does not hesitate to declare the law a blunder, in an article recently published in the "Sole," the leading commercial newspaper of this country. Its repeal may be expected. UNITED STATES CONSULATE, Milan, April 5, 1882. DUNHAM J. CRAIN, Consul. TARIFF ON COTTON-SEED OIL. REPORT BY VICE-CONSUL-GENERAL HOOKER, OF ROME I have the honor to inform you that the Italian Chamber of Deputies have just approved a bill increasing the duty on cotton-seed oil, pure or mixed with other oils, from 6 to 20 lire per quintal. The same act also fixes a tax of 14 lire per quintal on cotton-seed oil made in Italy. The bill has been referred to the Senate for confirmation. The Italian cabinet strongly supported this bill in the Chamber, and sought to show that it was necessary to raise the price at which cottonseed oil may be obtained; claiming that the heavy adulteration of olive oil with cotton-seed for table use is injuring the home production of olive oil and discrediting it on foreign markets. The new duty will seriously affect our trade in cotton seed oil with Italy; the fine quality being chiefly imported from the United States. I may say that the manufacture of cotton-seed oil in Italy is of little or no importance. As showing the growing importance of the American trade in cottonseed oil with Italy, I may add that according to Italian statistics 140,000quintals were imported from the United States and Canada during the five years, 1875 to 1879; during the year 1880 these imports ran up to 213,754 quintals. J. C. HOOKER, Rome, March 8, 1881. UNITED STATES CONSULATE-GENERAL, OUR NEW TARIFF AND ITALIAN EXPORTS. REPORT BY CONSUL DUNCAN, OF NAPLES. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the act approved March 3, 1883, to modify the internal revenue taxation and the duties on imports into the United States. It may not be amiss for me, in this connection, to refer briefly to the effect this modification of the tariff will probably have upon exportations to the United States from this consular district as well as from elsewhere in Italy. |