Import tariff rates of Guatemala-Continued.

Tariff
No.

Articles.

SEC. 15.-Drugs, medicines, chemicals, and druggists' articles-Cont'd.

2813

(a) Of aluminum

Salts and chemical compounds, metallic, and the metals themselves,
not specified, will pay duty by net weight, as follows:

(b) Of bismuth, cadmium, cerium, or lithium...

(c) Of copper (except those used in paints or dyes), of antimony,
barium, strontium, tin, nickel, or zinc.

(d) Of chromine (except those used in paints and dyes).

(e) Of iron, medicinal

(g) of gold....

(f) Of molybdenum and uranium.

(h) Of platinum, iridium, osmium, and rhodium.

(i) Of silver and palladium..

(j) Of lead, calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, and manganese
(k) Of thalium and cobalt...

(1) Of tungsten, mercury, titanium, and other metals not named

2814

Salts of quinine, not specified, net weight..

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8.00

2815

Sandalwood, red, in powder, net weight..

2816

Santonine, in crystals or powder, net weight..

Sarsaparilla:

2817

Brestol's, in bottles..

Dozen

Scales, Roberbal's, with wooden, marble, or metal case, or of these
materials together, with their appurtenances:

Ayer's, Bull's, Lauman's, Murrays's, Townsend's, and others, in
bottles up to 360 grams.

5.00

2820

Medium, weighing up to 1 kilogram, gross weight..

2821

2822

2823

With wooden case, and wooden or marble platform
With bronze standard, and appurtenances..

Small, for prescriptions, with case of marble, crystal, or porce-
lain, with weights and appurtenances.

2824

Scammony, Smyrna, and other kinds, whole or powdered, net weight.. Kilogram

3.25

Mustard, yellow or black, including weight of container
Santonicum (wormseed), including weight of container.
Seeds and berries, medicinal:

Not specified, including weight of container..

Powdered, pay 25 per cent more than the duty on the same when
whole, and all seeds and berries, powdered, whether medicinal
or not, shall be considered medicinal, except such as are speci-
fied among the Powders.

Seeds of

Flowers and vegetables, imported whole, are free of duty, even if
used in medicine.

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.20

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.85

do

25

Silicates of potash, soda, and others not specified, white or colored, in
mass or in solution, gross weight.

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.06

Silver, in wire or powdered, artificially prepared, for silver-plating, | Kilogram
or in leaves for silvering pills, net weight.

4.00

Carbolic, sulphur, borax, coal-tar, corrosive sublimate, mercurial, .....do
or any other medicinal soap (soluble), simple or compound, not
specified, in bars of at least 250 grams, gross weight.
Almond or medicinal, animal or opodeldoc, castile, Marseilles,
green, and other simple soda or potash soaps, used in pharmacy,
in bars of at least 250 grams, gross weight.

.40

..do

.25

2849

2850

(Above two classes), in cakes of less than 250 grams, wrapped or
not in common paper, or in tin or lead foil, gross weight.
Medicinal, of secret composition, in cakes, bars, or other form,
gross weight.

Import tariff rates of Guatemala-Continued.

Tariff
No.

Articles.

SEC. 15.-Drugs, medicines, chemicals, and druggists' articles—Cont'd.
Soda, caustic-Continued.

2856

2857

Solutions, medicinal, as Leras's solution of iron, solutions of chloride,
and lactate of strontia, and the like, in bottles up to 250 grams.
Solution, Laroyene's, in bottles up to 260 grams...

2858

Solutions of alkaloids and their salts, and of other active medicinal | Kilogram.
substances, including weight of container.

16. CO

Specifics (patent medicines) of secret composition, not specified, or like
those specified, including weight of container.

2865 Specifics of known composition, not specified, or like those specified,
including weight of container.

Spirits of

Musk, ambergris, orange-flower, cinnamon, patchouli, rose, and
ylang-ylang, in bottles of at least half a liter.

Kilogram.

2.00

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1.50

Liter

8.50

2867

Musk, ambergris, orange flowers, cinnamon, patchouli, rose, and
ylang ylang, in bottles less than a half litre, including weight of
container.

Prepared with wax or with cord, including weight of container.... Kilogram. 2873 Impregnated with medical or antiseptic substances, including weight of container.

6.00

Sterilizers (apparatus for sterilizing milk, and other liquids) will pay
duty as articles not specified, according to the material of which
they are made.

2878 Stockings of rubber; gloves, caps, ice bags, belts, girdles, urinals, .....do
bandages of rubber or rubber with cotton or linen, for the use of the
sick, including weight of container.

3.00

2879

Stockings, and above articles, of rubber and wool, including weight of

do

4.00

container.

2880

container.

Stockings, and above articles, of rubber and silk, including weight of

2882 Stoppers, rubber, gutta-percha, or like material..

2884 Strofantus hidispus, leaves and seeds; and onabaio, wood, root, or
plant, net weight.

Succinates of ammonia, potash, soda, and others not specified; benzo-
naphthol and santonate of soda, net weight.

2886 Sugar of milk (lactose), net weight

Stones, healing (standard preparations of this name), such as "piedra
divina," health stone, etc., except those specified elsewhere, net
weight.

2887

2888

In bottles of at least 500 grams, net weight...

2889

2890

Sulphates of

In packages of less than 500 grams, including weight of container..
Sugars, medicinal, including weight of container..
Sulphaminol and asaprol, net weight......

Alumina, simple or double (alums), copper, iron (common), mag-
nesia, and soda, including weight of container.

Baryta, a d of lead for paint, gross weight..

2895

Lime, calcined, in powder (plaster for dentists and for figures),
gross weight.

2.00

2896

Copper, ammoniacal, net weight

2897

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Indigo, net weight..

.20

Mercury, white or yellow, net weight..

Sulphide of

2900

2901

2902

Antimony, hydrated (mineral kermes), diaphoretic antimony, yel
low sulphur of antimony, net weight.

Antimony, acicular or crystallized, and sulphide of carbon, net
weight.

Arsenic, yellow (or piment), or red (realgar), and sulphides of
lime, potash, and soda, solid or in solution, net weight.
Iron, artificial, net weight

SEC. 15.-Drugs, medicines, chemicals, and druggists' articles—Cont'd.

Sulphites and hyposulphites of—

Pesos.

2905

2906

Ammonia, lime, and magnesia, net weight..
Potash and of soda, net weight

2907

2908

2909

container.

2910

Sulphur (brimstone):

2911

Sulphocarbolates of soda, of zine, and others not specified, net weight.
Sulphocyanides of ammonia and of potash, net weight...

Sulphocyanide of mercury, in powder or troches, including weight of

Sulphovinate of soda, and others, net weight....

Manufactured in matches or bougies, net weight

Precipitated, net weight...

2914

Sublimated, or flowers of sulphur, in powder, net weight...

Sulphur compounds, chemical, not specified, net weight..
Sulphur, native, in lumps, gross weight..

2916

2917

Sumac and tannin extracts, impure, for tanning purposes, net weight..
Suppositories of butter of cacao, simple or compounded with medicinal
substances, and vaginal suppositories, medicinal, including weight
of container.

2918 Surgical cases, such as the so-called "Curación de Lister," and the like, gross weight.

Hard rubber, with or without glass parts, with piston, including Kilogram...
weight of container.

3.00

2923

2924

Piston, white metal or tin, including weight of container....
Hypodermic, in boxes or metal cases, with or without thermometer
attached.

2932 Sirups. conserves, and potions, medicinal, standard, of composition well known, or declared by their makers, except those specified, in bottles up to 250 grams.

Of alkaloids (solutions of alkaloids in water or alcohol), including
weight of container.

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10.00

2946

2947

Of musk and of other aromatic substances. (See Spirits )
Compound, standard medicinal, not specified, pay duty as medicinal
wines.

Homeopathic and solutions of same, including weight of container.
And alcoholates, medicinal, simple, as tincture of belladonna, ipe-
cacuanha, etc., pay duty as fluid extracts.

.....do

2.10 6.00

2952

Of perchloride of iron, net weight.

.do

1.10

2953 Tribromide of allyl, net weight....
2954 Tricopherus, Barry's, and Kemp's Oriental Tonic, their imitations and
like preparations, for the hair, in the usual bottles, including weight
of container.

2955 Tripoli, in powders or bricks, net weight

2956 Triturations, homeopathie, any number, including weight of container..

2959 Trusses, all kinds and sizes, including weight of container.

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SEC. 15.-Drugs, medicines, chemicals, and druggists' articles-Cont'd.
Tubes:

2960

Rubber, vulcanized or not, two centimeters or less in outer diam-
eter, net weight.

2968

Ammonia, in solution or dry, of bismuth, of iron, and of zinc, net
weight.

Alcohol, alcoholic solution of shellac or other resins and gums,
gross weight.

do

50

2972

2974

Vaseline:

Painting or gilding, and gold varnish (bronze powder in solution
of gutta-percha), including weight of container.

Essence or oil (solution of resin, or gum resin, or elastic gum. dis-
solved in the essence of turpentine, benzine, or similar products,
or in some drying oil), gross weight.

2975

(Petroline, petroleum jelly), white or yellow, in cans of 500 grams
and upward, net weight.

2976

In cans, pots, vials, or other packages of less than 500 grams,
including weight of container.

2977 2978

Liquid (oleonaphthaline), and neutraline, net weight
Vermifuge, Jayne's, Vogeler's, or others, in bottles, including weight
of container,

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.80

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Vermilion:

2979

Gennine Chinese, or imitation, in packages, including weight of
paper and wrappings.

2980

French or English, or others, and vermilion of antimony, net
weight.

2981 Vials, homeopathie, with or without corks, including weight of con

Distilled of orange flowers, rose or other flowers, of leaves, roots,
chips, seeds, barks, odorous fruits, and balsams, except otherwise
specified, gross weight.

.....do

20

In bottles or receptacles of 1 liter, including weight of container. Medicinal, standard, except Botot's, quinine, and other tooth washes, including weight of container.

Up to 1 liter.

Up to one-half liter

Wax, yellow, soft wax for plasters and ointments, net weight..
Wines:

And elixirs of quinine, iron, and other medicinal wines and
elixirs, not specified, of known composition, in bottles up to 360
grams.

San Juan, San Rafael, or other like natural wines, advertised as
medicinal, in bottles of 1 liter or half a liter.

Dozen

1.00

do Kilogram.

.50

.10

2.25

Dozen

All articles of merchandise left in the warehouses of the respective custom-houses for more than one month, to be counted from the date on which they were landed, shall pay, under the head of storage dues, 2 cents per day per each 100 kilograms or fraction of that unit.

When the merchandise is left in the warehouses to await the result of some petition or of proceedings initiated in regard thereto, storage dues shall not be charged.

HONDURAS.

Under date of May 11, 1897, Consul Little, of Tegucigalpa (Consular Reports, No. 203, August, 1897), writes:

The original tariff law, with its eleven classes, is published in the Handbook of Honduras, issued by the Bureau of American Republics, the classes being given at the end. Since the publication of the original law duties have been increased, first 20 per cent on the original amount, and then 30 per cent on this total. In place of these two separate increases, the new law provides that all goods imported shall be subjected to an additional tax of 100 per cent over and above the original duties and warehouse dues.

The following is the "original tariff" mentioned by Consul Little, with the 100 per cent" additional duties added, in the bureau of foreign commerce, bringing the tariff up to December, 1898, as far as statistics in the bureau justified. The reduction of the silver peso of Honduras to American currency would be of no permanent use, owing to the fluctuations in its value.