SHIPPING WORLD 349. Carriages, trained animals, portable theatres, panoramas, wax figures, and other similar objects for public entertainment, imported temporarily, provided bond be given. 350. Receptacles exported from Cuba, with fruits, sugar, molasses, honey, and brandy, and reimported empty, including receptacles of galvanised iron intended for the exportation of alcohol. 351. Specimens and collections of mineralogy, botany, and zoology; also small models for public museums, schools, academies, and scientific and artistic corporations, on proof of their destination. 352. Used furniture of persons coming to settle in the island. 353. Samples of felt, wall paper, and tissues, when they comply with the following conditions: (a) When they do not exceed 40 centimetres in length, measured in the warp or length of the piece, even when such samples have the entire width of the piece. The width shall, for tissues, be determined by the list, and for felts and wall paper by the narrow border which has not passed through the press. (b) Samples not having these indications shall only be admitted free of duty when they do not exceed 40 centimetres in any dimension. (c) In order to avoid abuse, the samples declared for free entry must have cuts at every 20 centimetres of their width, so as to render them unfit for any other purpose. 354. Samples of trimmings in small pieces, of no commercial value or possible application. 355. Archeological and numismatical objects for public museums, academies, and scientific and artistic corporations, on proof of their destination. 356. Works of fine art acquired by the Government, academies, or other official corporations, and intended for museums, galleries, or art schools, when due proof is given as to their destination. 357. Goldin bars, powder, or coined; also national silver or bronze coins. 358. Wearing apparel, to let objects, and articles for personal use, bed and table linen, books, portable tools and instruments, theatrical costumes, jewels, and table services bearing evident trace of having been used, imported by travellers in their luggage in quantities proportionate to their class, profession, and position. 359. When travellers do not bring their baggage with them, the clearing of the same may be made by the conductor or persons authorised for the purpose, provided they prove, to the satisfaction of the Customs, that the effects are intended for private use. 360. Stone, unwrought for paving purposes. 361. Ploughs, hoes, hatchets, machetes, cane knives, &c., for agricultural purposes, and other agricultural implements, not machinery. 362. Quinine, sulphate and bisulphate of, and all alkaloids or salts of cinchona bark. 363. Hemp, flax, and ramie, raw, hackled, or tow. 364. Abaca, heniquen, pi a, jute, and other vegetable fibres, raw, hackled, or tow. 365. Single ya'ns made of jute for the manufacture of sugar bags only, to be imported by sugar bag manufacturers only, the importer to give a bond to use the yarn exclusively for the manuf.cture of sugar bags. 366. Books, maps, and scientific instruments, for the use of schools. 367. Coal and coke. 368. Mineral, carbonated or sel.zer waters, natural or artificial, root beer, ginger ale, and other similar non-alcoholic beverages, not otherwise provided for. 369. Fresh fish. 370. Second-hand clothing given for charitable purposes to needy persons, and not for sale. DUTY HAS BEEN INCREASED AS FOLLOWS BY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE. Articles upon which the duty has been increased 15 per cent.-Trimmings of cotton, ribbons and galloons. Tissues of hemp, linen, ramie, jute, or other vegetable fibres, not specially mentioned, plain, twisted, or damasked, weighing 35 kilogs, or more per 100 square metres, unbleached, dyed, bleached, half-bleached, printed, or manufactured with dyed yarns. Tissues, plain, twilled, or damasked, weighing up to 35 kilogs. per 100 square metres, unbleached, dyed in the piece, bleached, half-bleached, or printed, or manufactured with dyed yarns. Velvets and plushes of linen, jute, &c. Knitted goods of linen or hemp, mixed or not with cotton or other vegetable fibres, even with needlework, in the piece, jerseys, drawers, stockings, socks, gloves, and other small articles. Tulles, plain, figured or embroidered on the loom. Lace, blonde, and tulles for borders. Carpets, of jute, hemp, or other vegetable fibres without admixture of wool. Tissues called tapestry for upholstering furniture and for curtains, mixed or not with cotton, figured or damasked, provided they be manufactured with yarns dyed prior to being woven; tablecovers and counterpanes of the same kind. Trimmings of hemp, jute, linen, ramie, &c.; ribbons and galloons. Woollen yarn, unbleached, bleached, or dyed, single or twisted. Swanskin of pure or mixed wool. Manufactures of wool, including knitted stuffs with or without an admixture of cotton or other vegetable fibres, even with needlework; and tissues of bristles or horsehair, with or without an admixture of cotton or other vegetable fibres. Silk and floss silk, spun or twisted, in skeins, on reels, including weight of reels. Tissues of silk, pure or mixed. Articles upon which the duty has been increased 20 per cent.-Cotton tissues, plain and without figures, napped or not, unbleached, bleached, dyed, printed or manufactured with dyed yarns. Cotton tissues, twilled or figured on the loom, napped or not, unbleached, bleached, dyed, printed or manufactured with dyed yarns. Cotton tissues for counterpanes. Piqués of all kinds. Carded cotton tissues, unbleached, half-bleached, dyed in the piece, bleached, printed, or manufactured with dyed yarns. Velvety cotton tissues, such as corduroys and velveteens; three-ply plush tissues, cut or not. Knitted cotton goods, even with needlework, all kinds other than undershirts, drawers, stockings, socks, gloves, and other small articles. Tulles of cotton, plain, figured or embroidered on the loom. Cotton lace, blondes, and tulle for borders, of all kinds. Carpets of cotton. Cotton tissues called tapestry, for upholstering furniture and for curtains, manufactured with dyed yarns; tablecovers and counterpanes of the same kind. Wicks or candles (and matches). Wicks for lamps. Jerked beef (tasajo). Rice, husked or not. Articles upon which the duty has been increased 25 per cent.-Marble, jasper, and alabaster;, slabs, plates or steps of any dimension, polished or not. Sculptures, high and bas-reliefs, vases urns and similar articles for house decoration. Marble, jasper, and alabaster; wrought or chiselled into all other articles, polished or not. Stones, other, natural or artificial slabs, plates or steps wrought into other articles. Earths employed in manufactures and arts, including lime, gypsum, cement, gypsum manufactured into statuettes or other articles. Tar and mineral pitch, asphalt, bitumens, and schists. Crude oils derived from schists, including crude petroleum and axle grease. Petroleum and other mineral oils, rectified or refined, intended for illumnation or lubrication. Cordage oil. Benzine, gasoline, and mineral oils, not specially mentioned, including vaseline. Gold and platinum or alloys thereof in the form of artcles of jewellery, with or without precious stones or pearls; silver in the form of articles of jewellery, with or without precious stones or pearls; and precious stones, pearls, and seed pearls, not set. Gold or platinum or alloys thereof, wrought, in any form not elsewhere specified. Silver in ingots, bars, plates, sheets, or powder, or in any other form, and platinum in ingots. Copper flakes (lamina), copper of first fusion, old copper, brass. Copper and alloys of copper -in ingots, bars of all kinds, and sheets. Wire, galvanised or not-gilt, silvered, or nickelled. Wire covered with tissues or insulating materials; conducting cables for electricity over public thoroughfares. Wire gauze. Pipes, bearings, plates for fireplaces, and boiler-makers' wares partially wrought. Nails and tacks, other than for coffins-gilt, nickelled, or other. Pins or pens, crochet hooks, or hairpins. Articles of copper or alloys not specially mentioned, whether varnished or not, gilt or nickelled. Mercury. Nickel, aluminium, and their alloys, in lumps or ingots, bars, sheets, pipes, wire, or articles of any kind. Tin and alloys thereof (Britannia metal), in lumps or ingots, bars, sheets, pipes, wire, tinfoil and capsules, or bottles, and articles of all kinds. Zinc, lead, and other metals, not specially mentioned, and their alloys in lumps or ingots, bars, sheets, pipes, and wire; also shot. Articles, gilt or nickelled. Zinc nails and tacks, neither gilt nor nickelled. Other metal articles, including type. Varnishes. Blacking. Vegetable oils-solid or liquid. Cod liver oil and other medicinal oils, not refined. Twisted yarns, hemp, flax, pita, jute, and other vegetable fibres, and manufactures thereof. Rope and cordage. Wool-bristles, hair, horsehair, and manufactures thereof. Paper, in endless rolls or in sheets, white or coloured unprinted, or for printing purposes. Common wrapping paper, in endless rolls or in sheets, white or coloured, not including manila. [NOTE.- Paper, except manila, manufactured into bags of any kind, shall be dutiable, when without printing, with a surtax of 30 per cent. If printed, whether in sheets or bags, it shall be dutiable with a surtax of 50 per cent.] Writing paper in sheets, ruled or not, unprinted, white or coloured, including blank books of the same. Envelopes of all kinds. Blank books with printed headings. Boards, deals, rafters, beams, round wood, and timber for shipbuilding; planed or dovetailed, for boxes and flooring; broomsticks; and cases wherein imported goods were packed. Fine wood for cabinet makers. Coopers' wares. Lattice work and fencing. Furniture and manufactures of wood. Barbers' and dentists' chairs, billiard tables and appurtenances thereto, and bar fixtures. Battens, moulded, varnished, prepared for gilding, gilt or carved. Charcoal, firewood, and other vegetable fuel. Rushes, vegetable hair, cane, osiers, fine straw, palm and genista, raw; esparto, raw or manufactured. Mares suitable for breeding or not. Geldings. Mules. Asses. Pigs. Sheep (except ewes, which are free) and goats. Animals not specially mentioned. Singing birds, parrots, &c. All hides, skins, and leather wares. Feathers (other than for ornament) and feather dusters. Intestines, dried. Animal wastes, unmanufactured, not specially mentioned. Clocks and parts thereof; works for wall or table clocks, finished or unfinished, with or without cases. Weighing machines (other than platforms for weighing sugar cane), including scales and detached parts thereof. Steam motors, stationary; marine engines; steam pumps; hydraulic, petroleum, gas, and hot or compressed air motors; boilers; locomotives and traction engines; turntables, hydraulic cranes and columns. Machines of copper and its alloys; detached parts of the same metals; dynamo-electric machines; inductors and detached parts; sewing machines and detached parts thereof; machines and apparatus of materials not specially mentioned; also detached parts of all kinds other than of copper or its alloys. Coaches and berlins, new, used, or repaired; railway carriages of all kinds for passengers; vans, trucks, and cars of all kinds; miners' trolleys; tramway carriages of all kinds; waggons, carts, and hand carts. Sailing vessels of all kinds. Steam vessels, with hull of wood, iron, or other metals, or composite. Salvage from wrecked vessels. Clover seed. Flax seed. Alimentary preserves not specially mentioned; pork butchers' wares; truffles, sauces, and mustard; alimentary flavouring extracts. Saffron, safflower, and flowers of tobar " cinnamon of all kinds; cinnamon, Chinese (cancion) cloves, pepper and nutmegs; vanilla; and tea. Articles on which the duty has been increased 30 per cent.-Common or ordinary hollow glassware and electric insulators. Crystal, and glass imitating crystal. Plate glass or plate crystal in slabs, paving or roofing; for windows or other articles. Glass and crystal, tinned, silvered, or coated with other metals. Mirrors, bevelled or not. Glass and crystal in statuettes, flower stands, and vases and similar articles for toilet purposes and house decoration; spectacle and watch glasses, imitations of precious or fine stones, enamel. Incandescent electric lamps, mounted or not. Articles of fire clay. Vitrified brick for paving purposes, vitrified block, vitrified brick for sewers, vitrified invert block, and vitrified invert brick for sewers. Vitrified clay and terra-cotta sewer pipe, slabs or conduits of clay, glazed or unglazed, cement or stoneware. Ceramic tiles of all kinds and glazed roofing tiles. Hollowware, glazed or not, of clay or stoneware--household or kitchen utensils; dishes or other articles; common bottles of earthenware, to contain beer, &c.; or flower pots. Faience in dishes or hollow-ware. Porcelain in dishes or hollow-ware. Statuettes, flower stands, and vases; high and bas-reliefs, articles for toilet purposes (adornos de tocador) and house decoration, of fine clay, faience, stoneware, porcelain, or bisque. Gold, silver, and platinum, and and alloys of these metals, and gold and silver plate. Cast-iron-Articles coated or ornamented with another metal or porcelain or not-bars, beams, plates, grates for furnaces columns and pipes; lubricating boxes for railway trucks and carriages, railway chairs, and other articles. Iron and steel manufactures: Rails; bars of all kinds; tyres and hoops; sheets; castings, in the rough or finished; pipes; wire; anchors, chains for vessels or machines, moorings, switches, and signal disks; anvils; wire gauze; cables and netting; furniture springs; tools and implements (net apparatus); screws, nuts, bolts, washers, and rivets; nails, tacks, and brads; saddlers' hardware-buckles; needles, pins and pens; crochet hooks and hair-pins; cutlery; small arms and barrels; sporting arms, and detached parts thereof; manufactures of tin-plate; and all other manufactures of iron and steel. Oleaginous seeds, copra, or cocoanuts. Resins and gums-Colophany, pitch (vegetable), and similar products, spirits of turpentine, caoutchouc and gutta-percha, raw or melted, in lumps. Extracts of liquorice, camphor, aloes, and other similar vegetable juices. Tan bark. Opium. Hops and malt, for brewing. Animal products employed in medicine, not specially mentioned. Sulphur. Phosphorus for use in the manufacture of matches. Other phosphorus, bromine, boron, and iodine. Organic salts-acetates and oxalates; citrates and tartrates. Alkaloids and their salts; chlorides of gold and of silver. Lupulin extract or hop flour for use in brewing. Chemical products not specially mentioned. Pills, including those of quinine, capsules medicinal dragées, and the like. Pharmaceutical products not specially mentioned. Mineral, vegetable, or animal wax. Articles of stearine and paraffin, wax of all kinds. Soap of all kinds, soap and ordinary scouring compositions, including so-called medicinal or medicated soaps. Perfumery and essences. Dextrin and other starch and fecula for industrial uses including glucose. Blues, albumens, and gelatine. Carbons prepared for electric lighting. Gunpowder and explosives. Manufactured articles of cotton and cotton wool. Cotton yarn and thread for crocheting, embroidering, and sewing, including the weight of reels. Books bound or unbound, and similar printed matter. Headed paper, forms for invoices, labels, cards, and the like. Prints, maps, charts, &c., drawings, photographs, engravings, and pictures; lithographs, chromolithographs, oleographs, &c., printed from stone, zinc, aluminium, or other material, used as labels, flaps, bands, and wrappers for tobacco or other purposes. Wall paper, printed. Common packing paper, straw, sand or glass paper. Blotting paper. Other paper not specially mentioned, including manila paper and press copy books. [NOTE. -Manila paper manufactured into bags of any kind, and cigarette paper in books or rolls (bobinas), shall be dutiable with a surtax of 30 per cent.] Pasteboard and manufactures of pasteboard. Paste and carton-pierre. Cows suitable for breeding purposes; cows with calf; heifers; oxen of the Jersey, Guernsey, Devon, Durham, Hereford, Porto-Rican, and Argentine breeds, providing the importer proves their origin. Yearlings. Fat male cattle. Boots, shoes, and slippers. Musical instruments of all kinds. Watches and chronometers, watch cases, and works for watches. Poultry and small game. Beef or pork, salted or in brine. Lard. Tallow, except when imported for the manufacture of soap. Bacon. Ham. or shoulders. Meat of all other kinds. Butter and oleomargarine. Cheese. Condensed milk. Salt cod and stock-fish, hake and haddock. Herring, pickled, smoked, salted, or marinated; and skate, salted. Mackerel, pickled, smoked, salted, or marinated. Salmon, smoked, salted, or marinated. Oysters of all kinds, and shell-fish, dried or fresh. Cereals: Maize, rye, barley (except when for beer), oats. Flour or meal: Of wheat, rice, maize, oats, beans and pease. Onions. Potatoes and other fresh vegetables not specially mentioned. Flour of pulse. Fruits, fresh. Fruits, dried or drained. Chestnuts, dried or fresh. Fodder and bran. Articles of food, preserved. Fish or shell-fish, preserved in oil or otherwise, in tins; vegetables and pulse, pickled or preserved in any manner: and fruits, preserved in brandy or otherwise. Alcohol. Coffee; chicory roots and chicory. Cocoa of all kinds. Cocoa butter. Chocolate and sweetmeats of all kinds. Pastes and fecule for soups and other alimentary purposes. Biscuits: Honey. Molasses. Sugar. Saccharin. Fans. Trinkets and ornaments of all kinds. Amber, jet, tortoiseshell, coral, ivory, meerschaum, mother-o'-pearl. Horn, whalebone, celluloid, and bone; or compositions imitating these materials. Walking-sticks and sticks for umbrellas and parasols. Coffins and undertakers' fixtures. Hair, human, manufactured into articles of any kind. Cartridges, with or without projectiles or bullets, for unprohibited firearms; also primers and caps for such arms. Tarpaulins coated with sand, for vans; felt and tow, tarred or coated with pitch. Oil cloths. Cases of wood or leather, cardboard, oster, and the like, including letter files. Matches of wax, wood, or cardboard (including the immediate packages). Caoutchouc and gutta-percha, manufactured. Games and toys. Umbrellas and parasols. Oil and water-colour paintings. Hats, bonnets, and caps of all kinds, finished or unfinished. Waterproof or caoutchouc stuffs, including boots and shoes of rubber. All other articles not otherwise provided for, except crude materials. Crude materials, not otherwise provided for. RECIPROCAL TARIFF CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA. Art. I. provides that articles admitted free of duty into the United States and into Cuba when the convention came in force shall continue to be so admitted. Aits. II. and III. provide that, apart from the free list (Art. I.), and articles hereinafter referred to, products of the United States and of Cuba shall be admitted to each country on a duty 20 p.c. below the ordinary tariffs in force. Art. IV. The following articles produced in the United States shall be admitted into Cuba (a) at a reduction of 25 p.c.: Machinery and apparatus of copper or its alloys or machines and apparatus in which copper or its alloys enter as the component of chief value; cast iron, wrought iron and steel, and manufactures thereof; articles of crystal and glass, except window glass; ships and water borne vessels of all kinds, of iron and steel; whiskies and brandies; fish, salted, pickled, smoke or marinated; fish or shell-fish, preserved in oil or otherwise in tins; articles of pottery or earthenware now classified under paragraphs 21 and 22 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba. SCHEDULE B.-To be admitted at a reduction of 30 p.c.: Butter; flour of wheat; corn flour of corn or corn meal chemical and pharmaceutical products and simple drugs; malt liquors in bottles; non-alcoholic beverages; cider; mineral waters; colours and dyes; window glass; complete or partly made up articles or hemp, flax, pita, jute, henequen, ramie, and other vegetable fibres now classified under the paragraphs of Group 2, Class V. of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; musical instruments; writing and printing paper, except for newspapers; cotton and manufactures thereof, except knitted goods (see Schedule C); all articles of cutlery; boots, shoes and slippers, now classified under paragraphs 197 and 198 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba gold and silver plated ware; drawings, photographs, engravings, lithographs, chromolithographs, oleographs, &c., printed from stone, zinc, aluminium, or other material, used as labels, flaps, bands or wrappers for tobacco or other purposes, and all other papers (except paper for cigarettes, and excepting maps and charts), pasteboard and manufactures thereof, now classified under paragraphs 157 to 164 inclusive of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; common or ordinary soaps, now classified under paragraph 105. letters A" and "B" of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; vegetables, pickled or preserved in any manner; all wines, except those now classified under paragraph 279 (a) of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba. SCHEDULE B.-To be admitted at a reduction of 40 p.c.: Manufactures of cotton, knitted, and all manufactures of cotton not included in the preceding schedules; cheese fruits, preserved; paper, pulp; perfumery and essences; articles of pottery and earthenware now classified under paragraph 20 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; porcelain; soaps, other than common, now classified under paragraph 105 of the Customs Tariff of the Republic of Cuba; umbrellas and parasols; dextrine and glucose; watches; wool and manufactures thereof; silk and manufactures thereof; rice; cattle. Arts. IV. and V.-Tobacco shall not enjoy any rebate in Cuba. Similar imports shall receive equal treatment in each country. Art. XI. This convention shall continue in force for 5 years, and thereafter from year to year. Yarns and Threads, Cotton, Linen, Hemp, Jute, Silk, Wool and Worsted. Pund Kron öre 0 061 161 Woven Manufactures Cotton, Linen, Hemp, Jute, Silk, Wool and Worsted. Cotton tissues: unbleached: containing less than 24 threads to the square 1-inch or weighing 44 quints (7 ozs. avoirdupois) or above to the square ell (4) square feet) Other kinds. 0 041 12 Sailcloth or tarpaulin cloth, weighing 44 quints and above per square ell; also druggeting (so far as such cloths are not included above). 0 121 Marly, embroidery cloth, canvas, stiff nets, and other open-woven, gummed or stiffened wares, girths, bands, and tapes, and fish nets. Open and transparent tissues, combined or not with metal threads or spun 00000 Of one colour; also damask, drills, &c., undyed... Undyed plain tissues; also wadding.. Ready-made clothing: when not lined nor trimmed, or when the lining or trim- Open and transparent tissues, combined or not with metal threads or spun Dyed in colours, not printed.. Of one colour; also damask. drills, &c., undyed. Ready-made clothing: when not lined or trimmed, or when the lining or trimming Silk wares wholly of silk. Of silk mixed with other materials: if either warp or weft or face is of pure silk. Haberdashery, trimmings, and button-makers' wares.. Ready-made clothing: when not lined nor trimmed, or when the lining or trimming When the lining or trimming is liable to a higher duty than the material of which inade: As the material of which chiefly composed, with an addition of 100 per cent. Felt for sheathing ships and roofing felt.. Other felts, undyed and not printed; also wares of cloth list.. 0 331 I 00 0 66 50 418 25 |