SOUTH AMERICA.

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

[Corrected, from official returns, to June, 1899. See changes at end of tariff schedules.]

IMPORT TARIFF.

Goods subject to ad valorem duties.1

ART. 2. The under-mentioned goods shall pay the following percentage duties on value:

25 PER CENT AD VALOREM.

1. All goods not specially enumerated in the present law or which are not exempt from duty.

50 PER CENT AD VALOREM.

2. Arms, their accessories and appurtenances.

3. Harness, and saddlers' articles in general, complete or not.
4. Articles of all kinds of tissues, completely or partly made up.

5. Sword sticks.

6. Portmanteaus, valises, and trunks.

7. Bags, leather, exceeding 25 centimeters, with or without their accessories. 8. Boots and shoes, ready-made or in pieces.

9. Vehicles, finished or not, also bodies and shafts in the rough, for the same. 10. Cartridges for fireams.

27. Buckles for harness and saddlery of all kinds.

28. Trimmings and cords of pure or mixed silk, combined or not with metallic threads. 29. Tissues and all other articles of silk, pure or mixed, including those of floss silk. 30. Tissues, knitted.

31. Screws, bolts, and nuts.

32. Blankets of pure or mixed wool, with warp of cotton, hemmed and bordered.

37. Ammonia, anhydrous, in cylinders, for the preparation of preserved meat. 38. Antimony, metallic.

39. Sand and stone, imported on vessels as necessary ballast.

40. Baryta, pulverized, or impure sulphate of baryta.

41. Coal tar.

42. Pitch, mineral.

43. Cocoa, in the bean.

44. Special carts for the conveyance of cereals.

45. Vessels or boats of all kinds, of a small tonnage, fitted together or not.

46. Tin in bars or ingots.

An additional duty of 2 per cent on goods paying 10 per cent ad valorem, and of 1 per cent on goods paying less than 10 per cent, is assessed.

55. Machines of all kinds, of a value of 100 pesos and more, and extra parts thereof. 56. Fence posts of the Paraguayan palm.

57. Silk, sewing and embroidering.

5 PER CENT AD VALOREM.

58. Cork in square pieces or roughly shaped.

59. Jewelry.

60. Wire on reels, for reaping machines.

61. Wire of iron or steel, galvanized or not, not exceeding No. 14. 62. Wire of iron or steel, barbed, for fences.

63. Needles for sewing machines.

64. Sand of Fontainebleau.

65. Sulphur, amorphous, and flowers of sulphur.

66. Cocoa and cocoa husks.

67. Twine for reaping and binding machines.

68. Thread for sewing sacks of canvas.

69. Iron in ingots, for foundries.

70. Iron, soft, in bars, hoops, or plates, unwrought.

71. Scrap iron of all kinds.

72. Tin plate, unwrought, cut or not.

73. Refractory bricks.

74. Lead in ingots or bars.

75. Refractory clay.

76. Zinc in ingots or bars.

77. Sewing machines, and extra parts thereof.

78. Tar oils, heavy.

79. Ploughs.

80. Saffron.

81. Mercury.

82. Resin pitch.

83. Pita, jute, or hemp, raw, neither combed nor spun.

84. Machines and materials for public illumination by electricity or gas, with the exception of fixtures. 85. Machines and materials for the installation of public waterworks and sewers, with the exception of fixtures.

86. Shearing machines, with or without motors, and extra parts thereof.

87. Machines, with or without motors, for agricultural purposes.

88. Extra parts for the foregoing machines.

89. Motors or portable engines, imported separately, for whatever use.

90. Nitrate of potash, crude, for industrial purposes.

91. Presses, fodder.

92. Braids (esterilla) of fibers.

93. Kaolin.

94. Wool, spun, or woolen yarn, for use on the loom.

95. Moldboards and plowshares of cast iron.

96. Horserakes.

97. Watches, of gold or silver.

98. Carbonate of soda, soda ashes, industrial silicate, nitrate and impure sulphate of soda, and caustic soda.

106. Zinc in smooth sheets, not exceeding No. 4, cut for receptacles.

112. Paper, natural white, in disks of from 1 to 2 centimeters in width, exclusively destined to the manufacture of paper matches.

113. Rabbit fur.

114. Quillaia bark.

115. Gelatin for the preparation of preserved meat.

....do

.do

197

198 Ginger (maqui)..

Apples, pears, or cherries, dried, including the weight of receptacles..

.08

..do

.05

235

Absinthe, not exceeding 68° C., in wood or demijohns..

Liter..

.29

236

237 Absinthe, not exceeding 68° C., in bottles of more than liter up to 1 liter.

Aniseed brandy, arrack, cognac, kirsch, rum, and other similar.....do liqueurs, not exceeding 50° C., in wood or demijohns.

.28

Bottle

.34

238

Aniseed brandy, arrack, cognac, kirsch, rum, and other similar liquors, not exceeding 50° C., in bottles of more than liter up to

1 liter.

254

256 2571

In bottles....

255 Geneva and Schnapps, not exceeding 50o C., in wood or demijohns.... Liter Grappa:

In wood or demijohns

Liqueurs, not exceeding 50° C.:

In bottles of 1 liter.

Geneva, aromatic, Old Tom or Schnapps, not exceeding 50° C., in .....do bottles of 1 liter.

.15

.33

.20

.09

.12

265

266

267

Wines:

All kinds, in bottles...

Port, Sherry, Madeira, Hock, Château-Margaux, Château-Laffitte,
Château-Yquem, Burgundy, and other fine wines, in wood or
demijohns.

"Carlon," "Priorato," dry, common claret, "Barbera," and other
similar common wines (in wood or demijohns), not exceeding
16 C., and not containing more than 50 per cent of dry extract
obtained by evaporation at 100° C., including the sugar con-
tained therein.

When the dry extract exceeds 50 per cent the wine shall be
subject to a surtax of 1 centavo per 5 grams or fraction of 5
grams of the excess and per liter.

NOTE. When the wines and other beverages are of a strength
exceeding the limits established in the foregoing numbers, they
shall be subject to an additional duty of 1 centavo per degree
or fraction of a degree in excess and per liter.
Muscatel, Marsala, Nebiolo, Sauterne, Moselle, sweet or dessert,
and other common wines.

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