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1527 Books, engravings, photographs, Free.
etchings, bound or unbound, maps
and charts imported by authority
or for the use of the United States
or for the use of the Library of
Congress.

1528 Hydrographic charts and publica- Free..
tions issued for their subscribers
or exchanges by scientific or liter-
ary associations or academies, and
publications of individuals for
gratuitous private circulation, not
advertising matter, and public
documents issued by foreign
Governments; books, maps,
music, engravings, photographs,
etchings, lithographic prints,
bound or unbound, and charts,
which have been printed more
than 20 years at the time of im-
portation.34

1529 Books and pamphlets printed Free.

wholly or chiefly in languages

other than English; books, pam

phlets,35 and music, in raised
print, used exclusively by or for
the blind.

Braille tablets, cubarithms, special | Free.
apparatus and objects serving to
teach the blind, including print-
ing apparatus, machines, presses,
and types for the use and benefit
of the blind exclusively.

1530 Any society or institution incor-
porated or established solely for
religious, philosophical, educa-
tional, scientific, or literary pur-
poses, or for the encouragement of
the fine arts, or any college, acad-
emy, school, or seminary of learn-
ing in the United States, or any
State or public library, may im-
port free of duty any book, map,
music, engraving,37 photograph,
etching, lithographic print, or
chart, forits own use or for the en-
couragement of the fine arts, and
not for sale, under such rules and
regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe.
Books, libraries, usual and reason-
able furniture, and similar house-
hold effects of persons or families
from foreign countries if actually
used abroad by them not less than
one year, and not intended for any
other person or persons, nor for
sale.
Borax, crude or unmanufactured,88
and borate of lime, borate of soda,
and other borate material, crude
and unmanufactured,39 n. s. p. f.
1533 Brass, old brass, clippings from brass
or Dutch metal, all the foregoing,
fit only for remanufacture.

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34 Provided, That where any such books have been rebound wholly or in part in leather within such period, the binding so placed upon such books shall be dutiable as provided in par. 1310. (Act of 1922.) 35 "Pamphlets" added in act of 1922.

36 No corresponding classification in act of 1909.

87 Engraving" added in acts of 1913 and 1922. Engravings for institutions or societies dutiable under act of 1909 (T. D.) at 25 per cent.

38 Crude and unmanufactured" in act of 1913.

89 Crude and unmanufactured" not in act of 1909.

40 If advanced in value by shredding, grinding, chipping, etc.

41 If not advanced in value by shredding, grinding, chipping, etc.

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12 Provided, That if any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on such brick imported from the United States, an equal duty shall be imposed upon such brick coming into the United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government. (Act of 1922.)

13 Not glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner.

44 If glazed, enameled, painted, vitrified, ornamented, or decorated in any manner.

45 Provided, That if any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on calcium acetate, when imported from the United States, an equal duty shall be imposed upon such article coming into the United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government. (Act of 1922.)

40 Provided, however, That all * ** tar and oil spreading machines used in the construction and maintenance of roads and in improving them by the use of road preservatives shall, if imported prior to January 1, 1911, be admitted free of duty.

47 In barrels, sacks, or other packages, including weight of barrel or package.

48 In bulk.

49 Nuts of all kinds, shelled or unshelled, n. s. p. f.

50 Comfits, sweetmeats.

51 Provided, That if any country, dependency, Province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on any article specified in this paragraph, when imported from the United States, an equal duty shall be imposed upon such article coming into the United States from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government. (Act of 1922.)

Provided further, That on all coal imported into the United States, which is afterwards used for fuel on board vessels propelled by steam and engaged in trade with foreign countries, or in trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, and which are registered under the laws of the United States, a drawback shall be allowed equal to the duty imposed by law upon such coal, and shall be paid under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. (Act of 1909.)

63 Of 28 bushels, 80 pounds to the bushel.

63 Such as will pass through a half-inch screen * * * : Provided, That the rate of 15 cents per ton herein designated for "coal slack or culm" shall be held to apply to importations of coal slack or culm produced and screened in the ordinary way, as such, and so shipped from the mine.

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Blast-furnace, oil-gas, water-gas.. All other distillates of any of these tars which on being subjected to distillation yield in the portion distilling below 190° C. a quantity of tar acids less than 5 per cent of the original distillate, all mixtures of any of these distillates and any of the foregoing pitches, and all other materials or products that are found naturally in coal tar, whether produced or obtained from coal tar or other source, and n. s. p. f. in paragraph 27 or 28 of Title I of this act.

26 No corresponding classification.

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54 All other products of coal tar, not colors or dyes and not medicinal, n. s. p. f.

ACT OF 1916.

TITLE V.

SEC. 500. That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this title, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the articles named in this section when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions, except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila, the rates of duties which are prescribed in this title, namely:

FREE LIST.

Group I. Acenaphthene, anthracene having a purity of less than twenty-five per centum, benzol, carbazol having a purity of less than twenty-five per centum, cresol, cumol, fluorene, metacresol having a purity of less than ninety per centum, methylanthracene, methylnaphthalene, naphthalene having a solidifying point less than seventy-nine degrees centigrade, orthocresol having a purity of less than ninety per centum, paracresol having a purity of less than ninety per centum, pyridin, *** toluol, xylol, crude coal tar, pitch of coal tar, dead or creosote oil, anthracene oil, all other distillates which on being subjected to distillation yield in the portion distilling below two hundred degrees centigrade a quantity of tar acids less than five per centum of the original distillate, and all other products that are found naturally in coaltar, whether produced or obtained from coal tar or other source, and not otherwise specially provided for in this title, shall be exempt from duty. Group II. ** * carbazol having a purity of 25 per centum or more, * * * 15 per centum ad valorem. * * * [And 2 cents per pound].

ACT OF 1921.

TITLE V.-DYES AND CHEMICALS.

SEC. 501. (a) That on and after the day following the enactment of this Act, for the period of three months, no sodium nitrite, no dyes or dyestuffs, including crude and intermediates, no product or products derived directly or indirectly from coal tar' (including crudes, intermediates, finished or partly finished products, and mixtures and compounds of such coal-tar products), and no synthetic organic drugs or synthetic organic chemicals,a shall be admitted to entry or delivered from customs custody in the United States or in any of its possessions unless the Secretary determines that such article or a satisfactory substitute therefor is not obtainable in the United States or in any of its possessions in sufficient quantities and on reasonable terms as to quality, price and delivery, and that such article in the quantity to be admitted is required for consumption by an actual consumer in the United States or in any of its possessions within six months after receipt of the merchandise.

(b) Upon the day following the enactment of this Act the War Trade Board Section of the Department of State shall cease to exist; all clerks and employees of such War Trade Board Section shall be transferred to and become clerks and employees of the Treasury Department and all books, documents, and other records relating to such dye and chemical import control of such War Trade Board Section shall become books, documents and records of the Treasury Department. All individual licenses issued by such War Trade Board Section prior to the enactment of this Act shall remain in effect during the period of their validity, and the importations under such licenses shall be permitted. All unexpended funds and appro priations for the use and maintenance of such War Trade Board Section shall become funds and appro priations available to be expended by the Secretary in the exercise of the power and authority conferred

upon him by this section.

a Included synthetic organic drugs and chemicals not of coal-tar origin, and natural drugs and

chemicals obtained also by synthesis. (T. D. 38799, July 21, 1921.)

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cyanide, n. s. p. f.

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Drugs such as barks, beans, berries,

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Glaziers' and engravers' diamonds,
unset; miners' diamonds.

buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, ex-
crescences, fruits, flowers, dried
fibers, dried insects, grains, herbs,
leaves, lichens, mosses, logs,58
roots, stems, vegetables, seeds
(aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds
of morbid growth, weeds, and all
other drugs of vegetable or animal
origin: all of the foregoing which
are natural and uncompounded
drugs and not edible, and n. s. p.f.,
and are in a crude state, not ad-
vanced in value or condition by
shredding, grinding, chipping,
crushing, or any other process or
treatment whatever beyond that
essential to the proper packing of
the drugs and the prevention of
decay or deterioration pending
manufacture: Provided, That no
article containing alcohol shall be
admitted free of duty under
this paragraph.

26 No corresponding classification.

55 Emergency Tariff Act of 1921: Seven cents per pound imposed on cotton having a staple of 13 inches or more in length.

56 Barium, calcium, sodium, and potassium, and alloys of which said metals are the component material of chief value.

57 Chemical compounds, mixtures, and salts, n. s. p. f.

58 "Logs" not in act of 1909,.

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26 No corresponding classification.

69 Provided, That the importation of eggs of wild birds is prohibited, except eggs of game birds imported for propagating purposes under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and specimens imported for scientific collections. (Act of 1922.)

Provided, however, That the importation of eggs of game birds or eggs of birds not used for food, except specimens for scientific collections, is prohibited: Provided further, That the importation of eggs of game birds for purposes of propagation is hereby authorized, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. (Acts of 1909 and 1913.)

60

Floral concretes" added in act of 1922.

61 Provided, That no article mixed or compounded or containing alcohol shall be exempted from duty under this paragraph. (Act of 1922.)

62 "Raw or salted" added in act of 1922.

63 Dutiable under pars. 453-459, inclusive, act of 1909, according to lengths and kind of leather. (See pp. 118-119.)

64 Excepting calfskins, whether wholly or partly manufactured.

65" Henequen" added in act of 1922.

66"Used only for manure" in acts of 1909 and 1913.

67 Provided, That no article specified by name in Title I shall be free of duty under this paragraph. 68 Provided, That no article containing alcohol, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, shall be 'assified for duty under this paragraph.

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