(d) Sugar in cakes, lumps, cubes, and powder.

(e) Beer, cider, and other fermented beverages (*).

Red wine, of whatever class, in pipes, barrels, and flasks; generous, sweet and dry wine, in pipes, barrels, and flasks, of whatever weight and size, and vinegar in barrels. (g) Common resin and tallow soap.

(h) Hemp, in the form of cables and cordages, tarred, and hemp cloth whether varnished or painted, for roofing.

(1) Unmanufactured wool.

() Rubber in pipes and hose for pumps, conduits, and roofs; and rubber prepared for machines and flooring, excepting hose for fire-engines, which only pays one centavo per kilog. (m; Class 2).

(1) Earthenware in pipes, tubes, and conducts for pumps, drains, and roofs.

() Yellow and other coloured paper for packing, paper and cardboard destined for book. binding.

(m) Wooden bedsteads, dining tables, wardrobes, and large chests of drawers for clothes and other uses, without mirrors, carving, or inlaid work, bellows for forges, buckets and tubs, taps for barrels and casks, small boards for match-boxes and wood for matches; coaches and carriages of all kinds, oars, windows and doors, &c., when imported separately, machines for ships, arts, trades, industries, and agriculture.

(n) Palm leaves for the manufacture of hats, espadana," straw, and common twigs unwrought, and brooms of the same materials.

() Mats of all kinds.

(0) Iron and steel in fountains not for public use, in balustrading and grating for doors and windows, when they come separately; in hydraulic pumps and machinery, with their respective tubes and other pieces; in machinery not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff, whose weight is less than 1,000 kilogs. (machinery destined for industries are in the 3rd Class); large boilers; anvils; pulleys, plates or rods not included in crude iron; bedsteads, large chains, safes, nails, and tacks, kitchen utensils, tinned or not; tin plates, flat irons, large implements for agricultural purposes, for quarries and for mines, such as hoes, picks, levers, shovels, drill bits, large hooks (garlanchas "), axes, large crowbars for mines, spades, hammers, pickaxes, drills, matchets, and other knives for felling timber. Matchets or hunting knives, exceeding 20 inches in length including the handle; steel drills for mines, tyres, wheels, axles, springs, and pins ( conos "') for carriages and carts, and in balls and shot for hunting.

(p) Lead, in slabs, pipes, and other articles exceeding 5 kilogs. in weight; ingots not destined for mines, and in munition, balls and shot for hunting.

(q) Zinc, unwrought, in plates and sheets, including those for roofing, and in pipes. (7) Lithographic and pumice stones.

(s) Colouring earths for buildings.

(1) Black wax, hops, bone and horn, unmanufactured.

(u) Tubes, hose and pipes of wood, rubber, earthenware, or metal for pumps, drains, and roofs, with the exception of those for fire-engines and fuses for mines.

(v) Filtering stones.

(x) Mercury.

(y) Drugs and medicines in general, with the exception of those mentioned in Classes 2, 3, and 6.

ARTICLE VII-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 5 (5 centavos, gold).

(a) Hazelnuts, nuts, and almonds, in the shell, cocoa, and, in general, all alimentary products, not prepared, and not elsewhere mentioned.

(b) Olives in barrels, olives in oil, linseed oil for preparing paint.

(c) Vermicelli and other alimentary pastes.

(d) Cotton, in wicks for candles, matches, and lamps.

(e) Rubber in lids and stoppers for recipients.

(/) Harness for carts and carriages.

(g) Articles of all kinds of common faïence or stoneware.

(h) Refined petroleum for lighting.

(1) Organs, and pianos of all kinds.

(7) Gypsum, manufactured in any manner not elsewhere mentioned in the Tariff.

(7) Iron, in scales, balances, &c., for weighing 100 kilogs, and upwards.

(m) Woven wire of copper or iron.

(n) Tin, in bars or ingots.

(i) Flintstones.

(o) Cork, in planks or in stoppers for large and small bottles and flasks, and the capsules for covering same.

(p) Requisites for chemical laboratories and meteorological instruments.

(q) Printing presses.

(r) Vegetable filaments.

(*) Beer, cider, and other fermented beverages classed by mistake in letter e of Art. VI. are to be dutiable according to letter p of Art. X. (Class 8). (Ordinance of Ministry of Finance dated January 9, 1904.)

ARTICLE VIII-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 6 (10 centavos, gold).

(a) Alimentary products, prepared, such at Bologna sausages, salmon, ham, and similar articles, sweetmeats, confectionery, preserved and dried fruits, &c., pickles and condiments of all kinds not specially mentioned.

(b) Aniseed.

(c) Liquids of all kinds, with the exception of perfumery and liquids specially mentioned in other classes.

(d) Cotton, in wicks for tinder boxes, and thread for manufacturing the same.

(e) Hemp in cordage, not otherwise mentioned in the Tariff, in common cloth prepared or varnished for floors, common oilcloth for carriages, not including that used for table covers (f) Hides, skins and leather, unmanufactured, except patent leather.

(h) Crystal and glass in mirrors of 25 centimetres in size, and all other articles of crystal and glass, not included in any other Class of the Tariff.

(i) Unmanufactured spermaceti.

(Stearine, stearic acid, and paraffin manufactured into candles.

(4) Tallow or other candles not specially mentioned.

(1) Wooden matches.

(m) Common oil soap, and others, except those which figure in the 4th Class. Fibre baskets.

(n) Wood, in thin plates for veneering, in furniture not specially mentioned in this Tariff in statues, in barrel organs, and harps. In moulds and rules for mechanical purposes, in bellows, except those for forges, in uncovered saddle trees.

() Iron and steel in tools for blacksmiths, stone-masons, carpenters, and bricklayers, in wire, lock bolts, latches, window fastenings, screws and springs for furniture, in scales, balances, &c., weighing 100 kilograms and under, in furniture, currycombs and brushes, cooking utensils, and other articles of tin or of iron tinned both on the interior and exterior. Knives for arts and industries, such as for bookbinders and shoemakers, portable stoves.

(0) Maps and engravings destined for the study of sciences and arts.

(P) Writing paper, foolscap, for office purposes, for letters, &c., of cotton or linen or any other material, and, in general, all articles of stationery not mentioned in any other Class of the Tariff.

(q) Copper or bronze in pans or boilers or other articles, the weight of which exceeds 25 kilogs, and aluminium in articles whose weight exceeds 2 kilograms.

() Tin, in plates and cooking utensils, in combination with other metals.

(s) Marble and jasper, otherwise than in tiles, slabs, and lithographic stones.

(1) Alabaster in whatsoever form.

(u) Paint in powder or prepared. Common gluc, common brushes, horse and boot brushes and combs.

(v) Writing ink, in powder or in paste.

(x) Shoe blacking or cream.

ARTICLE IX.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 7 (15 centavos, gold).

(a) Nutmeg, cinnamon, and similar articles.

(b) Hides and patent leather, unmanufactured.

(c) White, yellow and laurel coloured wax, not manufactured.

(d) Spermaceti, manufactured into candles.

(c) Blank books, lined or without lines; small blank books of the same kind.

Florida, Divina, and Kananga waters, bottled generous and red wines.

(g) Wood in mouldings, carvings, and ornaments for furniture, and frames, gilt or not. In furniture of all kinds, with mirrors, carving, inlaid work, or upholstered with woollen silk, velvet, or plush tissues.

(h) Varnishes of all kinds, indigo, and aniline, wool in rough cloth (baize, &c.), and in other forms not mentioned in the Tariff.

ARTICLE X.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 8 (20 centavos, gold).

(a) Cotton, manufactured into unbleached tissues, without white or coloured parts, not figured and without needlework, also white and coloured yarns.

(b) Hemp and flax; common unbleached tissues, as "crchuelas," cretonnes, sailcloth, and tent canvasses, domestics, with the exception of white or other coloured drills (** driles.'') (c) Rubber, unmanufactured, and uncovered buttons of rubber.

(d) Crystal and glass in mirrors exceeding 25 centimetres.

(c) White, yellow, and

laurel wax manufactured into candles or other articles.

() Manuscript or printed music.

(g) Table and wall clocks of whatever kind.

(h) Paper, gilt or silvered; cigarette paper.

(1) Wood for billiard tables, and articles of wood not mentioned in any other Class of the Tariff.

Iron and steel cutlery not mentioned in any other Class, and other wares of iron and steel not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff.

(4) Copper and bronze in articles weighing over 500 grammes each, and not exceeding 25 kilogs.

(1) Lead in any form not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff. (m) Zinc in any form not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff.

(n) Children's toys of clay, tin, cardboard, or wood.

(i) Common buttons of bone, horn, vegetable ivory, celluloid, porcelain, or paste, uncovered; also of glass.

(0) Black or coloured ink for writing and copying, and indelible ink in bottles.

(p) Ruled paper for music; beer, cider, and other fermented beverages.

(r) White and coloured yarns.

(s) Cotton fulas" blue; and cotton tissues, white or unbleached, plain, neither dyed nor figured, without needlework or embroidery, such as those known as domestics. (4) Cotton blankets.

ARTICLE XI.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 9 (30 centavos, gold).

(a) Woollen blankets.

(b) Copper and bronze articles, the weight of which does not exceed 4 kilog.

(c) Tin, in powder and in sheets; and powders for polishing inetals.

(d) Straw hats and models without trimming.

(c) Aluminium cooking utensils.

(f) Cotton drills ("' driles "') and other tissues, white or coloured, not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff; muslins, lawns, and other transparent tissues; shawls, with or with out woollen fringes; white or coloured cloth, plain, corded, drawn, or fluted, used for ladies' dresses, as calico prints, batistes, muslin (olancillos ''), striped, marseilles, and similar articles.

(g) Brushes for the teeth, nails, and hair.

(h) Gun powder (''mostacilla '').

ARTICLE XII.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 10 (40 centavos, gold).

(a) Fine unbleached tissues of hemp or flax, with the exception of drills (driles '') and other tissues mentioned in the following categories of this Tariff.

(b) Woollen yarn, and cloth of horsehair or other material not specified.

(c) Oilcloth for furniture, for table covers, and for other uses not mentioned in the Tariff. (d) Girths and cruppers of cotton or hemp.

(e) Pictures, chromos, and prints on paper or cardboard; visiting and christening cards. (f) Ink in sheets or encujene"; sheets of tissue paper for duplicates or copies.

(g) Ordinary or fine horn combs, excepting those for horses.

(h) Common mother-of-pearl buttons; bicycles in any form.

() Wax matches.

(2) Gunpowder for sporting purposes.

(1) Crystal and glass for watches, lenses, and spectacles. (m) Cotton handkerchiefs, with or without embroidery.

(n) Tobacco cut for cigarettes.

ARTICLE XIII.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 11 (50 centavos, gold).

(a) Cotton bedspreads and damasked or embroidered cloths, not included in any other part of the Tariff; cotton velvets, tapes and ribbons, also umbrellas, and sunshades. (b) Drills (driles "') of hemp or flax.

(c) Woollen carpets and rugs.

(d) Lead foil, and thin plates of lead.

ARTICLE XIV.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 12 (60 centavos, gold).

(a) Cotton" ruanas," hammocks, carpetas," and goods for manufacturers.

(b) Hemp and flax drills (creas")," platillos ; diaper; tissue for tablecloths, napkins, and towels, bedcovers, stuffs for mattresses, ribbons, sheeting, and similar materials not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff, providing they be without needlework or embroidery,

lambskins

(c) Rubber boots and shoes of all kinds; life preservers, tissues for zamarros), and ruanas," without wool or silk; combs, hair combs, and toys; teats, and elastic for boots, bracelets, belts, and garters.

(d) Wooden musical instruments, not mentioned in Classes 5 and 6; ordinary walking sticks, unornamented.

(e) Umbrellas with woollen or ramie covers. Tea.

Cardboard, painted, carved, or engraved, gilded, silvered, or bronzed and in registers ; cardboard in any other form not mentioned in the Tariff.

(g) Cotton stockings and other kinds of hosiery such as undershirts, drawers, and gloves. Ready-made clothes without embroidery, lace, or other ornamentation composed of material subject to higher duties; fringes, galloons, cords, braids, tassels, and similar articles: (h) Dolls of earthenware, crystal or glass, with or without dresses and ornaments.

ARTICLE XV.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 13 (70 centavos, gold).

(a) Hemp and flax: handkerchiefs, caps, stockings, gloves, "bretañas," white jeans, fine hemp, picardias," Irish linen," lasales,' "barandosos," batistes, and striped stuffs; fringes, galloons, braids, cords, sashes, tapes, tassels, and similar articles; ready-made clothing without embroidery, lace, or any other ornamentation composed of materials subject to higher duties.

(b) Silk umbrellas.

(c) Fireworks.

(d) Clothes brushes and other brushes for personal use.

(e) Pocket watches of copper, nickel, and aluminium.

Rubber manufactures not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff; billiard balls of imitation ivory.

(g) Leather trunks and portmanteaus.

(h) Sporting guns.

ARTICLE XVI.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 14 (80 centavos, gold).

(a) Cotton: all kinds of embroidered tissues with network and imitations thereof, including laces, insertions, &c., and ready-made clothing not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff.

(b) Hemp and flax : embroidered tissues of all kinds with lacework and imitations thereof, including laces, insertions, &c.; coverlets, quilts, shawls with fringes.

(c) Wool: open-woven and transparent tissues; all kinds of embroidered tissues or net lacework and imitations thereof, including laces, insertions, &c.; ready-made clothing, coverlets, and bedspeads; fringed shawls, even when the fringes are of silk.

(d) Hides, skins, and leather, manufactured into wallets, pocket books, cigarette cases, and similar articles, and shoes of whatever kind.

(e) Intoxicating liquors, as absolute alcohol ("* desinfectado ''), brandy or cognac, whisky and liqueurs, such as chartreuse, curacao, &c., and champagne.

(f) Silver watches.

(g) Rubber billiard cushions.

(h) Saffron.

(i) Trimmed straw hats.

(j) Leaf and chewing tobacco, and tobacco in other forms.

(1) Knives and forks with ivory, mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell; britannia metal, and electro-plated handles; penknives and scissors of fine steel, razors, machines for hair-cutting and shaving, nail nippers and razor strops.

(!) Gilt and silvered beads, pencil cases, gilt or silvered jewellery, and all fine or superfine gilt or silvered articles in general.

(m) Jewellery not of gold, platinum, or silver; of rubber, celluloid, or similar combinations, including pins and studs for shirt fronts, collars, and cuffs.

(n) Tobacco cigars and cigarettes, and snuff.

ARTICLE XVII.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 15 (90 centavos, gold).

(a) Silk threads, tissues, fringes, lace guipures, stockings, ribbons, and other manufactures not being hand-worked or trimmed, with or without beads; unembroidered handkerchiefs. (b) Beads of glass, metal, or composition; powder boxes of tin and powder-puffs. (c) Toys of rubber, celluloid, aluminium, and others not mentioned in the Tariff.

(d) Medals and medallions of copper, bronze, faïence, glass, aluminium, celluloid, and other pastes.

(e) Fans not mentioned in any other part of the Tariff; silk carpets, gold or silvered metal buttons; silver objects of any form; revolvers and pistols and cartridges for same woollen, silk, or lace curtains, with or without ornamentation.

(f) All embroidered articles, irrespective of material.

(g) Gold watches.

(h) Extract of cognac and all concentrated spirits for the manufacture of liqueurs. ARTICLE XVIII.-ARTICLES UNDER CLASS 16 (1.50 peso, gold).

(a) Ready-made silk clothing for ladies, with or without ornaments of beads, velvet, or feathers, &c.

(b) All perfumery, except Florida, Divina, and Kananga waters; dyes for the beard and hair.

(c) Fans of silk, mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, ivory, and feathers.

(d) Ornaments of feathers and skins.

(e) Ivory in any form not mentioned in the Tariff.
(f) Artificial flowers, stuffed animals, and kid gloves.

(g) Silk parasols, with or without ornamentation.

(h) Masks of cardboard, metal, silk, or other materials.

(1) Cards and dice, roulette, and bowls, and, in general, all articles intended for games o

chance.

(1) Precious stones in general, gold and gold-plated silver jewellery (with or without precious stones), and all articles of gold, in general, will be valued according to the invoice, and will pay duty at the rate of 5 per cent. of the invoice value.

ARTICLE XIX.

Articles or objects not mentioned in this Tariff will pay the duty corresponding to the next higher class than that in which the tissue or material from which they are made is found.

ARTICLE XX.

Articles to which the provision in the previous article cannot be applied, will pay as if belonging to Class 13.

ARTICLE XXI.

Hats, bonnets, caps, &c., will pay the duties applying to ready-made clothing, according to the material from which they are made.

ARTICLE XXII.

Salt introduced through the Custom Houses of the Atlantic will pay 60 centavos for every 12 kilogrammes.

The Government may fix the duties, according to public necessities. to be charged at the Custom Houses of Bueneventura, Ipiales, Tumaco, and the other ports of the Republic. ARTICLE XXIII.

The Government is authorised to tax the export of vegetable ivory and straw for hats in the form it judges best.

VARIOUS PROVISIONS.

ARTICLE XXVIII.

Import and export duties will be paid, in all the Custom Houses of the Republic, in Colom. bian gold, or in paper money at the rate of exchange ruling on the day of payment, without additional charges of any kind.

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Rates for Customs purposes $100 paper money $1.9.

In the Custom Houses in which these duties are paid in silver, the payment will continue to be levied in the same money at the rate of 21 pesos, for each peso, Colombian gold; but the payment of duties can be made in Colombian gold or paper according to the previous paragraph of this article.

ARTICLE XXIX.

The exemptions from Customs duties conceded by law or contracts approved by law and confirmed with railroad companies, navigation companies, industrial enterprises, &c., in which specifications have not been made, and which only refer to implements and material for said enterprises, include solely machinery, duplicate parts, rails, fish plates, nails, tools, rolling stock, apparatus for telephones and telegraphs; but is on no account to include articles for personal use, which pay the duties corresponding to their respective classes in the Tariff.

ARTICLE XXX.

In order to obtain the exemptions mentioned in the previous article, the Custom House regulations pertaining to the same must be complied with.

ARTICLE XXXIII.

The Government is authorised to reduce the import duties on food stuffs of prime necessity, in case of public calamity, in the whole or part of the Republic, and to reduce the import or export duties in the Custom Houses at Buenaventura, Ipiales, Tumaco, Cucata, Arauca, and Meta.

Equally, the Government reserves authority to give the character of Custom Houses of deposit to those which do not have it and to which it may be deemed best to give it.

ARTICLE XXXIV.

The importation and transit of the following articles is absolutely prohibited in the Republic:

(a) Canes, umbrellas, &c., which contain swords, daggers, or other weapons.

(b) All classes of artillery, such as cannons, machine guns, &c., and all classes of firearms as rifles, carbines, or analogous kinds.

(c) Swords, cutlasses, sabres, and lances for cavalry.

(d) Cartridges or projectiles for the arms named in (b).

(e) Cartridge boxes, belts, and every class of equipment suitable for troops.

(1) Counterfeit money, or that inferior to 0.835 fineness. Moneys of lower grade can only circulate in accordance with the stipulations laid down in the Law on monetary regulations. (g) Apparatus for making money.

(h) Nitroglycerine.

(1) Paper suitable for the manufacture of paper money, or which contains, as a watermark, the coat of arms of the Republic, appropriate for making stamped paper.