Present Law. SEC. 2499. There shall be levied, collected, and paid on each and every non enumerated article which bears a similitude, either in material, quality, textue, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this title as chargeable with duty, the same rate of duty which is levied and charged on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any non-enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates are chargeable, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest duty; and on all articles manufactured from two or more materials the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at which the component material of chief value may be chargeable. If two or more rates of duty should be applicable to any imported article, it should be classified for duty under the highest of such rates: Provided, That non-enumerated articles similar in material and quality and texture, and the use to which they may be applied, to articles on the free list, and in the manufacture of which no dutiable materials are used, shall be free. Proposed by Mills Bill. SEC. 2499. Each and every imported article not enumerated or provided for in any schedule in this title, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this title as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any non-enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates of duty are chargeable, there shall be levied on such non-enumerated articles the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest rate of duty; and on articles not otherwise provided for, manufactured from two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at the rate at which the dutiable component material of chief value may be chargeable; and the words "component material of chief value," whenever used in this title, shall be held to mean that dutiable component material which shall exceed in value any other single component material found in the article; and the value of each component material shall be determined by the ascertained value of such material in its last form and condition before it became a component material of such article. If two or more rates of duty shall be applicable to any imported article, it shall pay duty at the highest of such rates: Provided, That any non-enumerated article similar in material, and quality, and texture, and the use to which it may be applied to any article on the free list, and in the manufacture of which no dutiable materials are used, shall be free of duty. 551 ADDED TO FREE-LIST BY THE MILLS BILL. Sunn Sisal grass Other vegetable substances Burlape, not exeeding 60 inches....... Bags of jute for grain-not enumerated........ Jute machinery-not enumerated in present tarifi.. Tin plates, terne plates, and taggers' tin, of iron or steel...... 20 per cent. $15. $15. $15. 30 per cent. 45 per cent. le. per pound. 2 cen's. 10 cents. 20 per cent. Do. Do. Logwood and other dye-woods, extracts, and decoc Barks, beans, etc.......... Existing rate. 10 per cent. Do. 40 cents per pound. 50 cents per pound. 10 cents per gallon. •10 per cent. cent. 30 per cent. 10 per cent. 3 cents. 5 cents. 4 cents. 5 cents. 3 cents. Do. cent. 20 per cent. Do. Do. 3 cents. 1 cent. 20 per cent. Do. Do. $10. 10 per cent. Do. Crude minerals, etc................................... Clay's or earths, unwrought...... Glass plates or disks for spectacles, not enumerated Opium, crude.......... |