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GIFT OF
JUDGE L. C. CRAMTON

MAY 18'42

PREFACE.

This handbook, published as an appendix to the proposed bill revising the tariff act of 1909, contains the complete statistical basis employed by the committee in its work of adjusting the duties of a revision bill, and the comparison of the text of the proposed bill with that of the act of 1909, together with estimates of the probable imports and duties for a 12-month period under the operation of the proposed bill.

The material is grouped under the following general heads:

1. Comparison of the text of the proposed revision bill with that of the act of 1909.

2. Comparative statistical data arranged by tariff paragraphs for one year under the Wilson tariff, one year under the Dingley law, and two years under the present law, together with estimates, prepared by departmental experts, of the probable imports and duties for the first 12-month period under the operation of the proposed new bill.

3. Comparative equivalent ad valorem duties on selected articles. under the tariffs of the United States and certain specified foreign countries.

4. Abstract of the Treasury Decisions under the tariff act of 1909 up to and including December 31, 1912, arranged according to the paragraphs of the act of 1909.

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PART I.

SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS.

Text of H. R. 10 and of the law of 1909.

H. R. 10.

BILL To reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles 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 duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this section prescribed, namely:

Dutiable list.

1. Acids: Boracic acid, three-fourths of one cent per pound; citric acid, five cents per pound; formic acid, one and one-half cents per pound; gallic acid, four cents per pound; lactic acid, one and one-half cents per pound; oxalic acid, two cents per pound; phosphoric acid, two cents per pound; pyrogallic acid, ten cents per pound; salicylic acid, two and one-half cents per pound; tannic acid and tannin, four cents per pound; tartaric acid, four and one-half cents per pound; all other acids and acid anhydrides not specially provided for in this section, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

2. Acetic anhydrid, two and one-half cents per pound.

LAW OF 1909.

AN ACT To provide revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in the second section of this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles 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 duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this section prescribed, namely:

1. Acids: Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, three-fourths of one cent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths; two cents per pound; acetic anhydrid, two and one-half cents per pound; boracic acid, three cents per pound; chromic acid, two cents per pound; citric acid, seven cents per pound; lactic acid, containing not over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, two cents per pound; containing over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, three cents per pound; oxalic acid, two cents per pound; salicylic acid, five cents per pound; sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol not specially provided for in this section, one-fourth of one cent per pound; tannic acid or tannin, thirty-five cents per pound; gallic acid, eight cents per pound; tartaric acid, five cents per pound; all other acids not specially provided for in this section, twentyfive per centum ad valorem.

482. Acids: Arsenic or arsenious, benzoic, carbolic, fluoric, hydochloric or muriatic, nitric, phosphoric, phthalic, picric or nitropicric, prussic, silicic, and valerianic. (Free of duty.) [See paragraph 1.]

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3. Acetone, one cent per pound

4. Albumen, blood, two cents per pound; egg albumen, three cents per pound.

5. Alkalies, alkaloids, and all chemical and medicinal compounds, preparations, mixtures and salts, and combinations thereof not specially provided for in this section, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

6. Alizarin, natural or synthetic, ten per centum ad valorem.

7. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite; alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and alumi nous cake, and all other manufactured compounds of alumina, not specially provided for in this section, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

8. Ammonia, carbonate of, and muriate of, three-fourths of one cent per pound; phosphate of, one cent per pound; liquid anhydrous, two and onehalf cents per pound; ammoniacal gas liquor, ten per centum ad valorem.

9. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude or partly refined, containing not more than ninety per centum of potassium bitartrate, five per centum ad valorem; containing more than ninety per centum of potassium bitartrate, cream of tartar, and Rochelle salts or tartrate of soda and potassa, two and one-half cents per pound; calcium tartrate crude, five per centum ad valorem.

3. Alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, rendered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds. mixtures and salts, and all greases, not specially provided for in this section, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; chemical compounds, mixtures and salts containing alcohol or in the preparation of which alcohol is used. and not specially provided for in this section, fifty-five cents per pound, but in no case shall any of the foregoing pay less than twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

257. Eggs, dried, fifteen cents per pound; eggs, yolk of, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; albumen, egg or blood, three cents per pound; dried blood, when soluble, one and one-half cents per pound.

[See paragraphs 3 and 65.]

487. Alizarin, natural or artificial, and dyes derived from alizarin or from anthracin. (Free of duty.)

4. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite, containing not more than sixty-four per centum of alumina. four-tenths of one cent per pound; containing more than sixty-four per centum of alumina, six-tenths of one cent per pound. Alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, containing not more than fifteen per centum of alumina and more than three-tenths of one per centum of iron oxide, one-fourth of one cent per pound; alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, containing more than fifteen per centum of alumina, or not more than three-tenths of one per centum of iron oxide, three-eighths of one cent per pound.

5. Ammonia, carbonate of, one and one-half cents per pound; muriate of, or sal ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; liquid anhydrous, five cents per pound.

[And see paragraph 3.]

6. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude, five per centum ad valorem; tartars and lees crystals, or partly refined argols, containing not more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of potash, and tartrate of soda or potassa, or Rochelle salts, three cents per pound; containing more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of potash, four cents per pound; cream of tartar and patent tartar, five cents per pound.

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