Gloves of skin, with the exception of boxing-gloves, which are comprised in Class V Dutch batiste, light tissue (clarin"), knitted goods, zephyr, lawn, tarlatan, muslin, and all other fine linen or cotton tissues, made up into articles such as frills, ruches, infants' caps skirts, cuffs, chemisettes, and other similar articles and adornments not mentioned in other classes. Precious stones, pearls, and jewellery; articles wholly or in part of gold or silver; watches of any material, watch cases, jewellery cases and similar articles, even when imported separately. Books and albums, bound in velvet, silk, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, ivory, Russian leather, or with gilt or silver ornaments. Handkerchiefs of linen, or of linen mixed with cotton. Bookbindings, imported separately, and removable book covers. Feathers for hats and bonnets and other similar uses, and hearse plumes imported separately from the hearses. Silk, pure or mixed with other materials, and tissues of other materials mixed with silk. Cloth or tissues of all kinds, mixed or embroidered with gold or silver, real or imitation, with the exception of church ornaments or ecclesiastical vestments comprised in Class VII. Stuffs and tissues of wool mixed with cotton, made up as mosquito nets, hangings, curtains, and other articles not elsewhere mentioned. Tobacco, manufactured and prepared in any form, not otherwise mentioned. To this Class belong cigarettes rolled in tobacco leaf. CLASS IX. GOODS WHICH PAY 20 BOLIVARS PER KILOGRAMME. Placards, showcards, and handbills, printed or lithographed. Cigarette wrappers. Boots and shoes, and tanned skins cut out prepared for boots and shoes. Circulars, printed or lithographed; labels of all kinds, printed or lithographed, which are not attached to any article; printed visiting cards, with or without coloured designs. Fine and common cloths, cassimere, satin, knitted goods, flannel, alpaca, "cambron," bombazine, serge, lasting, and damask, of wool or of wool mixed with cotton, made up as men's clothing. Envelopes of all kinds, finished or only cut out. Hats, bonnets, and caps, trimmed, of every kind, for women and children. Hats of black silk plush, with high crowns, and similar hats of any material, including opera hats: hats simply cut out; hats of fulled felt, and all other kinds of hats, wholly or partially finished, excepting those of straw or its imitations. Advertising cards, large, printed or lithographed farlatan, silk, wool, batiste of holland, light tissue ("clarin"), zephyr, lawn, muslin, and all other tissues of linen or cotton made up into ladies' wearing apparel. Men's clothing of wool, linen, or cotton, with the exception of that mentioned in other classes. THE IMPORTATION OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES IS PROHIBITED. Cocoanut oil, starch, indigo,cocoa, coffee, molasses from sugar and honey, salted jerked meat, salt, sarsaparilla roots, silver, nickel, or copper money, and apparatus for coining money, unless imported for the Government mint. FREE LIST. Articles imported by order of the Government. Live animals, with the exception of leeches. Iron boiler plates, bottoms of boilers, gratings, rollers and apparatus for crushing cane, also axles and frames for the same, and native iron and scrap iron for re-smelting. Ploughs and ploughshares; hoes, spades; sickles, billhooks, and scythes; weeding hooks, hatchets. shovels, picks; "tasies and cutlasses with or without wooden handles, and machetes for lopping. Mineral coal; carbons for electric light; acetylene gas and trisulphate of lime. Barbed iron wire for fences and also hooks for fastening the same, as shown in the cliché contained in the Ordinance of June 13, 1894. Persona effects of Ministers and those of Diplomatic Agents of the Republic on their return to Venezuela. Baggage brought by passengers, with the exception of those articles which have not been used, and of furniture which will pay according to the class to which it belongs, subject to a rebate proportional to the deterioration which it may have suffered from use. The duty leviable on unused articles imported together with baggage shall be increased by 20 per cent., and if they come from the West Indies they shall pay 30 per cent. additional. Ice imported, by permission of the Gov. ernment, into localities where no ice factories exist. Printing presses and other typographica accessories such as type, lines, prepared printing ink, and white printing paper, neither sized nor gummed; also paper paste for manufacturing stereotype plates, and aluminium employed for stereotype printing. Machinery for use in agriculture, mines, weaving, saw mills, foundries, not otherwise mentioned; also machines intended for the arts and trades when a manufacturer imports them himself, after having justified the use he intends to make of them and having obtained previous permission from the Government. Parts imported for the purpose of repairing sugar mills and agricultural machinery are also included in this Class. Samples of tissues in small strips in quantities not exceeding 25 kilogrammes. and of wall paper not exceeding 50 centimetres in length, or of all other articles when they are imported in such dimensions and under such conditions as to be unsaleable. Legal gold coin. Products of Columbia imported across the frontier of the country provided reciprocity exists. Articles in which goods exempt from duty are imported, such as trunks, Gladstone tags, portfolios, blankets or cloths which are not thereby deteriorated in value, shall be weighed apart, and shall pay the duty to which they are respectively liable. TT SHIPPING WORLD TONNAGE IN THE FOREIGN TRADE. Tonnage of Vessels entered and cleared wITH CARGOES to and from Foreign Countries and British Possessions during 1904. FOREIGN COUNTRIES. COUNTRIES whence Entered and to which Cleared. Russia: Northern Ports Southern Ports Sweden Norway.. Denmark Germány Holland. Belgium British Vessels. Foreign Vessels. British and Foreign Entered. Cleared. Entered. Cleared. Entered. Cleared. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. 868,358 707,021 1,346,634 1,190,914 2,214,992 1,897,935 157,463 164,770 86,732 1,219,187 244,215 380,775 365,092 1,360,332 1,675,540 1,741,107 2,040,632 206,549 1,240,743 970,252 1,443,646 1,176,801 89,449 186,176 390,743 1,504,709 480,192 1,690,885 1,592,770 2,374,672 1,019,905 2,493,887 2,612,675 4,868,559 1,290,645 1,288,551 1,331,213 1,286,116 2,621,858 2,574,667 1,643,308 1,715,511 470,860 665,861 2,114,168 2,381,372 1,832,889 3,185,991 919,588 1,693,821 2,752,477 4,879,812 1,695,520 984,974 1,409,115 10,887 245,519 15,964 21,169,241 24,933,944 11,526,183 16,202,904 32,695,424 |41,136,848 32,992 26,851 278,511 200,637 77,470 252,319 Year ended 1904 27,807,093 31,893,297 12,134,804 16,573,067 39,941,897 48,466,364 December 1903 27,448,501 31,316,424 12,454,516 16,033,542 39,903,017 47,396,966 Tonnage of British and Foreign Vessels employed in the COASTING TRADE (distinguishing those employed in the intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland) Entered and Cleared, with Cargoes, at Ports in the United Kingdom, during the year 1904. Name. TONNAGE, POWER, AND ARMAMENT OF BRITISH WARSHIPS LAUNCHED IN 1904. Knots. -pt. Q.F. 425 78 0 26 9 18,000 1854 12-in. 14 12 Q.F. Tons. Ft. Ft. In. Ft. In. 14 9:2-in. 14 3-pг. Q.F. 4 7'5 Q.F. 2 12-pr. 17 3-pr., 8 1-pr. 10 12-pг. Q.F. Chatham 10,700 450 68 6 24 9 21,000 22 Pt. Glasgow Birkenhead Jarrow 3rd Class 3,000 2,850 374 38 3 13 3 16,000 Forward and Foresight Govan Pathfinder and Patrol... Birkenhead Scouts 2,800 365 39 2 14 1 16,500 2,850 370 38 9 13 9 16,500 25 Barrow 2,900 ... 360 40 0 14 2 16,000 225 23 6 7,000 Bk'hd,C'ws 251 I 12-pr. Q.F. 5 6-pr. Q.F. Torpedo VESSELS BUILT for the World's Navies and Afloat, March 31, 1904. [Compiled from Sir Charles Dilke's Parliamentary Return.] No Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. No. Tons. No. 632,100 139 684,960 I 5,440 I 6,620 34 296,376 56 257,872 14 38,764 I 5,984 15 8,912 24 233 26 399 Russia ... 21 234,983 21 131,738 Germany 30 236,896 46 157,106 47,197 4,391 47 167 I 280 1,355,880 1,862 37 86 I 213 Italy.. 16 172,306 22 75,617 11,308 II 138 202 United States.. 130,982 29 Japan 91,520 37 108,954 10 41,020 141,262 2 5,784 I 2,155 Total 407,865 250,231 283,III 239,418 3.571,722 VESSELS BUILDING for the World's Navies, March 31, 1904. |