No. 45 IMPORT DUTIES OF THE UNITED STATES. THE TARIFF ACT APPROVED JULY 24, 1897, FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUBLIOS, JOSEPH P. SMITH, Director. Bulletin No. 75, WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1897 PUBLIC-No. 11.] An Act To provide revenue for the Government and to encourage he industries of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the passage of this Act, unless otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there hall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles imported front for ign countries, and mentioned in the schedules herein contained, the ates of duty which are, by the schedules and paragraphs, respectively rescribed, namely: SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS. 1. ACIDS: Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specifie ravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, three-fourths of one ent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven ne-thousandths, two cents per pound; boracic acid, five cents per ound; chromic acid and lactic acid, three cents per pound; citric cid, seven cents per pound; salicylic acid, ten cents per pound; sulhuric acid or oil of vitriol not specially provided for in this Act, oneourth of one cent per pound; tannic acid or tannin, fifty cents per pound; allic acid, ten cents per pound; tartaric acid, seven cents per pound; l other acids not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per entum ad valorem. 2. All alcoholic perfumery, including cologne water and other toilet aters and toilet preparations of all kinds, containing alcohol or in the reparation of which alcohol is used, and alcoholic compounds not pecially provided for in this Act, sixty cents per pound and forty-five er centum ad valorem. 3. Alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, renered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical comounds and salts not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per entum ad valorem. 4. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite, six-tenths of one cent per ound; alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and alumious cake, and alum in crystals or ground, one-half of one cent per ound. 5. Ammonia, carbonate of, one and one-half cents per pound; murie of, or sal ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; sulphate three-tenths of one cent per pound. 6. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude, containing not more an forty per centum of bitartrate of potash, one cent per pound; conining more than forty per centum of bitartrate of potash, one and e-half cents per pound; tartars and lees crystals, or partly refined gols, containing not more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of tash, and tartrate of soda or potassa, or Rochelle salts, four cents per und; containing more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of potash, ve cents per pound; cream of tartar and patent tartar, six cents per -und. |