(Tare, boxes 25 per cent.) 467 Smoking tobacco, chewing tobacco, and manufactured tobacco of all descrip 1.50 tions, per kilogram No tare shall be allowed for paper or other envelope of smoking and chewing Free. tobacco. Torpedoes and electric apparatus for use in submarine mines. Cordage (according to material). Train oil. 468 460 Train lye. (See Lye of fats.) Tripoli. (See Earth.) Wood and wooden ware. 470 471 1. Poles, fillets and frames with real and false gilding, likewise, if the weight 2. Fillets, ornamented, not gilt, per kilogram 3. Turners' goods, with or without fittings, rings, &c., combs (also of cocoa or other nuts). 0.23 0.10 472 Free. 473 474 b. Spinuing wheels and other simple turners' work, such as legs for furni 0.13 0.13 475 476 477 478 479 a. Blocks, tools and parts thereof, spools e. Ivory turners goods, penholders of wood of all kinds, combs, per kilo a. Of walnut, mahogany, and other foreign woods, as well as veneered b. Of fir and pine, also in combination with small parts of other domestic c. Of beach and other domestic woods, as well as veneering of these woods, To the article in other cases than that specified in letter b composed of different the highest duty. Furniture covered with silk, or silk in combination with other materials, shall pay additional duty of 10 per cent., whereas for other covers no additional duty shall be charged. 7. Staves, manufactured, and other coopers' goods, ad valorem At the ports of Hammerfest, Vardoe, and Vadso with incisions for the bottoms, and the bottom pieces belonging to such bottoms, 1. Painted, lacquered, varnished goods, impregnated or worked with india-rub- a. Emery cloth and sand cloth... b. Carpets, tarpaulines, other goods of which a -meter square weighs 470 e. Bookbinders' cloth grams or over, per kilogram.. d. Roller blinds, per kilogram. e. Oil-skin and other goods, wholly or in part of silk, per kilogram .. 0.13 0.02 0.06. 6 10 per cent. 6 per cent. Free. Free. 0.13 Free. 1. 07 2. 67 0.67 But f. Oil-cloth and other goods, not included in any of the above five classes, per kilogram 2. Made up or otherwise put together, which cannot be classed as dress-goods, 1. Ladies' watches and pocket watches, including pocket chronometers, per piece.. 2. Clocks. with or without glass and stands: a. In case of metal or porcelain: 8. Over that weight, per kilogram... a. Not weighing over 8 kilograms, per kilogram.. b. In cases of other materials: a. Not weighing over 5 kilograms, per kilogram........... 1784 CONGA P———4 Free. 1.00 1.00 8.00 1.00 5.00 A.-Norwegian tariff of export duties, &c.—Continued. Number. Import duty. Watches, clocks-Continued. Crowns. 495 3. Clocks for towers are dutiable as other goods of the same materials. 496 5. Clock-works put together without cases, per kilogram. 0.67 2.33.3 6. Clock cases of wood, as joiners' work. Clock cases of other materials as clocks: 497 7. Faces for the clocks specified under No. 4, above, per kilogram. 0.67 8. Single parts of clocks and clock-works, according to material. Weights for b. Dyed, also yarn of all descriptions combined with metal threads, per 0.20 (In bond, 300 kilograms) 3. Felts for machines, felts for paper machines, cloth-lists. Free. 0.80 Carpets and materials for carpets, bed-quilts, saddle-girths, and woven girths, 0.47 (See letter II.) 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 (In bond, 200 kilograms.) Hats. b. Other, including woolen scarfs of all kinds, per kilogram ....... 8. Ribbons and textile goods interwoven with india-rubber, gutta-percha, and a. Embroidered with silk or thread of metal, per kilogram.. (In bond, 75 kilograms.) OBS.-Woolen goods in combination with silk (see silk goods), woolen goods in combination with hair (provided they are not rated under "hair"), or other spinning materials, shall be rated as woolen goods. Mixed with oatmeal or flour of rye in proportions of 13 hectograms to 1 hecto- Free. 515 Dry. Grapes. (See Fruits.) Tartar (crude and refined), including crystalli tartari and cremor tartari Free. Bows for violins and other bows for musical instruments. (See Instruments.) 0.27 1.07 1.07 2.50 1.76 2.33.3 0.80 0.16.6 0.20.5 4. Carriages, without upholsterers' work or leather work, per piece.. 523 524 Other four-wheeled carriages, per piece.. 4. Four-wheeled, wholly or half roofed, including calashes with fixed or 525 b. Two-wheeled carriages, per piece Grease. (See Les of fats.) 526 527 528 529 530 532 Wax Wax candles and wax tapers, per kilogram Oilcloth and oil-skin. (See Textile goods.) Shuttles, healds, and pickers Import duty. Crowns. 2.50 Free. 8.00 80.00 30.00 8.00 Free. 0.13 Free. 0.27 0.17 10 per cent register when the customs officers regard it as fully loaded, that is, when the hold of the vessel is fully loaded with timber, or it may be judged that it would have been fully loaded if the deck cargo also had on as many tons as are given in the vessel's been loaded in the hold. the deck or the hold, at the same time never paying for more tons than on the real quality loaded in the vessel, whether the cargo be stored on are entered on the ship's register. No duty shall be charged when the In the opposite case the duty shall be assessed lumber occupies less than one ton's space. same vessel, such duty shall be charged: If lumber dutiable at different rates of export duty be exported in the A. For the whole lot at the lower rate where the lumber dutiable at the higher rate consists only of boards to cover the deck cargo or spars at the higher, when the former consists exclusively of pieces not exceedB. For the cargo below deck at the lower rate and for the deck cargo ing 19 decimeters in length, and the latter of wooden goods of greater length for the most part than mentioned in letter A, according to which estimate the cargo under deck shall be estimated at seven-eighths and the cargo on deck at one-eighth of the measured tonnage of the vessel. C. In other cases for the whole lot at the higher rate. Articles not belonging to any classes subject to export duty shall be exempt of duty. We hereby most graciously order that the foregoing decree of the Storthing shall be put in full force. Given at the palace of Stockholm on the 18th of June, 1881. In the absence of His Majesty, my most gracious King and Lord. R. KICRULF. GUSTAF. GERMANY. THE GERMAN TARIFF. ENGLISH TRANSLATION, BY CONSUL-GENERAL KREISSMANN, OF BERLIN, OF THE GERMAN TARIFF ACT AND CUSTOMS TARIFF, APPROVED JULY 15, 1879. AN ACT in relation to the customs tariff of the German customs territory and the revenues from customs and from taxation of tobacco. (Approved July 15, 1879.) SECTION 1. On imported goods duties shall be levied in accordance with the subjoined tariff, which shall be in lieu of the customs union tariff of the 1st of October, 1870, and the act amending the same, approved July 7, 1873 (Bulletin of the laws of the Empire, page 241). This act shall take effect First. Immediately as to the following tariff numbers, viz, No. 6 (iron, &c.), No. 14 (hops), No. 15 (instruments, &c.), No. 23 (candles); also as to the articles contained in No. 25 of the tariff (groceries), with the excep tion of those articles designated in the item q 2 of said No. 25; likewise as to the articles coming under No. 26 c of the tariffs (fats), and as to No. 29 (petroleum), No. 37 (animals, &c.), and No. 39 (live stock); Second. On the 1st of October, 1879, as to the articles contained under No. 9 d, e, ƒ (grain, &c.), and No. 13 a to f (wood) of the tariff; Third. On the 1st of July, 1880, as to No. 8 of the tariff, flax and other vegetable spinning materials, with the exception of cotton, raw, dried, broken, or heckled; also as waste; Fourth. On the 1st of January, 1880, as to the remaining articles enumerated in the tariff, including those hereinbefore excepted in the first clause. SEC. 2. Duties by weight shall be collected from the gross weight— a. Whenever the tariff shall expressly so provide; b. When the duty on the goods does not exceed 6 marks on 100 kilograms. Otherwise the duties by weight shall be levied on the basis of the net weight. In ascertaining the net weight of liquids, the weight of their imme diate receptacles (casks, bottles, jars, &c.) shall not be deducted. As regards sirups, the present existing regulations shall remain in force. For the other kinds of goods, the percentage of the gross weight, according to which the net weight shall be computed, shall be prescribed by the Federal Council. SEC. 3. The Federal Council shall have power to provide that the ascertainment and liquidation of duties on the goods embraced in the items, No. 2 c and 22 a, b, e, and ƒ of the tariff shall occur at such custom-houses only as may be designated for the purpose, unless the parties concerned shall be prepared to pay the highest rates of duty pre scribed in said item. SEC. 4. Duty-free shall be a. Packages of goods imported from abroad by mail, weighing 250 grams and less, gross weight. b. All goods subject to duty by weight in quantities of less than 50 grams. Duties of less amount than 5 pfennige shall in no case be collected; duties of greater sums shall be collected only to the extent as said sums can be divided by 5, omitting any excess in pfennige. The federal council shall have power in all the premises herein set forth to impose local restrictions in case of abuse. SEC. 5. The following articles shall remain free from duties of import provided the conditions precedent for the exemption of the same from duty shall exist: First. Products of agriculture and of live-stock raising, derived from such premises located beyond the limits of the customs territory, as shall be managed from dwelling houses or farm buildings situated with in said limits, under like conditions; also the products of forest-culture, provided the premises situate beyond the limits of the customs territory form a part of the premises within the same. Second. Wearing apparel and clothes already used and not imported for sale; household utensils and effects already used, factory implements and tools already used, of persons arriving in the customs terri tory, and when intended for like purposes by said persons; by special permission, also, new wearing apparel, clothes, and effects, so far as the saine constitute articles with which persons from abroad have furnished themselves, who, by reason of their marriage, may take up their abode in the country. Third. By special permission, also, household utensils and effects already used, when obtained by inheritance and imported upon proper evidence to that effect. Fourth. Traveling effects, wearing apparel, clothes, &c., which travelers, drivers of vehicles, and sailors carry with them for their own use, also tools carried by journeying mechanics, as well as fixtures and instruments of traveling artists used by the same in the pursuit of their vocations; further, articles of like description sent in advance of or following the arrival of the persons aforesaid; likewise articles of food for consumption by persons traveling. ting the line for the transportation of persons and goods, and entering Fifth. Vehicles, including rolling-stock of railroads employed in cutfor no other purpose; also rolling-stock of domestic railroad companies returning empty, and the rolling stock already in service of railroad companies of other countries. imported, did not serve as the means for carrying their owners, provided By special permission, carriages of travelers, even if the same, when proper evidence be produced of the previous use thereof by said owners, as well as of the further use by the same. Horses and other animals. if, from the use made of the same on entering it shall be evident that. they belong as beasts of draught or burden to traveling or heavy wagons, or serve in transporting goods or carrying passengers. Countries with a view of re-exportation for the purpose of purchasing Sixth. Empty barrels, sacks, and the like, either brought in from other oil, grain, &c., or returned from other countries after oil, &c., has been lished, and, if deemed requisite, payment of the import duties secured exported therein, provided that their identity in either case be estab |