Imports exemptin Trinidad and Tobago-Continued. estates, vehicles, and ironwork for vehicles to be used thereon, if admitted as such by the collector of customs. Manures. Mace. Vegetables, fresh, not prepared or manufactured. 4. Upon the exportation of bread, cheese, tea, flour, rice, malt liquors, wine in casks, vermuth in bottles, and sparkling wine if allowed by the collector, spirits in bottles, refined sugar, meal or other flour not wheaten; corn, including oats; butter, ghee, or any preparation of fat other than lard or oleomargarine; lard, matches, oil of all kinds except petroleum, cocoanut or creosote; soap, oleomargarine and cement, exported in the same packages unbroken in which the same were originally imported; and upon bricks, tiles, slates, flagstones, timber, sawn or hewn, in not less quantity than 2,000 feet; shooks in not less quantity than 40 bundles; shingles, staves, or wood hoops in not less quantity than 2,000; oxen, bulls, and cows if allowed by the collector, there shall be allowed a drawback equal to the full amount of the duties paid upon the importation thereof, provided such goods be exported in the presence of an officer of customs. Upon the exportation of gunpowder in the same packages unbroken in which the same was originally imported, there shall be allowed a drawback equal to the amount of duties paid upon the importation thereof, less 1 penny per pound, and upon the exportation of petroleum oil in the same packages unbroken in which the same was originally imported there shall be allowed a drawback equal to the amount of duties paid thereon, less 1 penny per gallon, provided such gunpowder or petroleum oil be exported in the presence of an officer of customs. 5. (Repayment of duties.) 6. No drawback shall be allowed for any goods where the amount of such drawback is less than the sum of 10 shillings. 7. Goods not prohibited to be imported into the colony composed of any article liable to duty as a part or ingredient thereof shall be chargeable with the full duty payable on such article, or if composed of more than one article liable to duty, then with the full duty payable on the article charged with the highest rate of duty. 8. In any case where by reason of the presence of coloring, sweetening, or other matter the correct strength of any spirit can not be immediately ascertained by Sykes's hydrometer, a sample of such spirit may be distilled or treated by such other process as the collector of customs may direct, so that the true strength of the spirit may be ascertained by the said hydrometer. 9. All goods on reimportation into the colony, whether they shall have paid duty on their first importation or not, shall be liable to the same duties, rules, regulations, and restrictions as if then imported for the first time: Provided always, That the collector of customs may admit without payment of duty goods chargeable with duty according to the value thereof, on its being proved to his satisfaction that duty was paid thereon on a previous importation into the colony. 10. (Moneys and weights and measures.) 11. (Ordinance repealed. See Schedule.) 12. (Bond where defendant requires proceedings against him to be brought in supreme court.) Passed in council this 6th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. [No change reported up to July 1, 1898.] 9. TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS. In all cases where the duties imposed upon any goods imported into this dependency are charged according to the value of such goods, such value shall be taken to be the first cost of the goods at their place of shipment without the addition of any shipping or other charges thereon; and it shall be the duty of the chief or other revenue officer taking the inward entry to require the party making the entry to produce the original invoice showing the cost of the articles at the place at which they were purchased: Provided always, That if it shall appear to such revenue officer that such articles have been invoiced below the real and true value thereof at the place from whence the same were imported, or if the invoice price be not known or can not be ascertained, the value of the same in these islands shall be determined by two competent persons, to be appointed for that purpose by the commissioner, and the duties shall be paid thereon. That whenever any articles subject on regular importation to an ad valorem duty shall be brought into this dependency otherwise than by regular importation or whenever any wrecked or damaged goods, wares, or merchandise subject to an ad valorem duty shall be imported into these islands (such damage not having occurred on the voyage from the last port of entry) and when the requisite information for perfect entry of the same as to the cost or value in the country of production or place at which they were originally shipped can not be ascertained or obtained, the value of such articles shall be taken to be the value at the port of entry, to be determined as provided in the preceding section, or the price which they shall realize at auction when so sold and delivered for consumption therein. Reduced to United States currency in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce. All other spirits. Wine, including all flavored or medicated wine. 10 per cent ad valorem. Animals: 02 0 0 1 3 .48666 30416 0 1 3 .30416 0 20 .48666 0 2 0 48666 050 1.2166 0 5 0 1.2166 .48666 .61 0 10 0 2.433 Animals, alive, to include only asses, sheep, goats, hogs, poultry, turtle, and all sucking animals. Baggage, personal, of passengers, containing apparel and articles of personal use, and all professional apparatus and workman's tools brought by a passenger for his own use. Belting for machinery, of leather, canvas, or india rubber. Boats and lighters. Bones and horns. Books, printed, bound or unbound, pamphlets, newspapers, and printed matter in all languages. Bottles of glass or stonewares. Bran, middlings, and shorts. Bricks and tiles. Bridges of iron or wood, or of both combined. Free goods-Continued. Building materials imported for the construction or repair of any church or chapel. Carts, wagons, cars, and barrows, with or without springs, for ordinary roads and agricultural use, not including vehicles of pleasure. Crucibles and melting pots of all kinds. Eggs. Fertilizers of all kinds, natural and artificial. Fish, fresh or on ice. Fruits and vegetables, fresh and dried, when not canned, tinned, or bottled. Furniture in use, the property of and imported by persons coming to reside in the presidency. Gas fixtures and pipes. Gold and silver coin and bullion. Hay and straw for forage. Houses of wood complete. Ice. Lime of all kinds. Locomotives, railway rolling stock, rails, railway ties, and all materials and appliances for railways and tramways. Maps, charts, and music. Marble and alabaster, in the rough or squared, worked or carved, for building purposes or monuments. Medicinal extracts and preparations of all kinds, including proprietary or patent medicines, quinine and preparations of quinine, and castor and cod liver oils, but exclusive of opium, gange, and bhang. Packages or coverings in which goods are actually imported if usual and proper for the purpose. Paper of all kinds for printing. Pictures and engravings. Plants, shrubs, and seeds of all kinds for planting. Printers' ink of all colors. Printing presses, types, rules, spaces, and all accessories for printing. Public worship, articles specially imported for, viz, musical instruments of all kinds, lamps, bells, and ornaments, and wine, and all furniture to be used in the celebration of divine worship. Quicksilver. Salt. Specimens illustrative of natural history. Steam engines, boilers, and pipes, and machines, machinery, and apparatus, whether stationary or portable, worked by power or by hand, for agriculture, irrigation, or mining, and all necessary parts and appliances for the erection or repair thereof, or the communication of motive power thereto. Sulphur. Surgical instruments imported for the use of the importer. Tan bark of all kinds, whole or ground. Telegraph wire, telegraphic, telephonic, and electric apparatus, and appliances of all kinds for communication or illumination thereby. Tombstones, tablets, and railings for graves. Trees, plants, vines, and seeds and grains of all kinds for propagation or cultivation. Water pipes of all classes, materials, and dimensions. Wire for fences, with the hooks, staples, nails, and like appliances for fastening the same. All goods imported for or supplied to the government or the governor, or Her Majesty's army or navy, and military, naval, and militia uniforms, accouterments, and appointments imported by the officers of Her Majesty's army, navy, or militia for their own use. If any goods on which duty has been paid at the time of importation be subsequently supplied as above mentioned, the amount of duty upon the goods so supplied shall be repaid out of the treasury on the warrant of the governor. SCHEDULE C. Goods being the growth, produce, or manufacture of, or raised in, any of the islands composing the colony of the Leeward Islands, and goods upon which duty shall have already been paid in any presidency of the said colony, except Dominica. |
