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customs custody in the United States or any of its possessions except (1) upon presentation to the collector of customs, by a registered importer, of a bona fide order of an actual consumer of such product (if such importer is not the consumer), together with an affidavit by the importer (or by the consumer if the importer is not the consumer) stating that the product to be delivered from customs custody is for his own use and not for sale, and that the quantity to be delivered will not place him in possession or control of more than a six months' supply; and except (2) that any product in class B which the United States Tariff Commission shall determine is ordinarily sold through dealers to the retail trade shall be delivered from customs custody upon presentation by a registered importer of a bona fide order from any wholesale or retail dealer in such product, together with an affidavit of such dealer that the product will be resold only in small quantities to a retailer or to an actual consumer, and that the quantity to be delivered from customs custody will not place such dealer in possession or control of more than a six months' supply. Said commission shall prescribe the forms of such orders and affidavits, which shall be made in duplicate, one of which shall be forthwith transmitted by the collector of customs to said commission. If any consumer of any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title has obtained any such products under the provisions of this paragraph he may apply to the commission for permission to sell such products, and upon showing to the satisfaction of the commission that he obtained such product in good faith for actual consumption by him and that through causes beyond his control he is no longer able to use such product, permission for sale shall be granted by the commission.

(g) If the United States Tariff Commission shall determine that after the date of registering with the commission any registered importer not the actual consumer has, in the importation or in the sale of any product enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title, violated any of the rules, regulations, or orders of the commission made under the provisions of this paragraph, then said commission shall cancel the registration of such importer.

(h) During a period of three years after the date of the passage of this Act, no registered importer for sale shall import into the United States or any of its possessions any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title until he has given to the commission a bond in a penal sum to be paid to the commission, but not less than $10,000, with sureties approved by the commission, and conditioned upon compliance with the provisions of this paragraph and all regulations issued thereunder. The commission shall by regulation prescribe as a condition of the bond such provisions as it deems necessary to prevent any action by such importer which will destroy or injure any industry in the United States or in any of its possessions, engaged in the production of such products, or which will prevent the establishment of such industry; and by such regulations shall prohibit, among other things, unfair competition and unfair acts, including full-line forcing, commercial bribery, misbranding of products, and price or quantity discrimination. Upon breach of the bond the amount thereof shall be recovered by the commission as liquidated damages and shall be paid into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

(i) For the purpose of performing the duties imposed by this paragraph the United States Tariff Commission shall have the power to require, from time to time, during a period of three years after the date of the passage of this Act, (1) from any registered importer engaged in the importation of any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title, a sworn statement disclosing the foreign manufacturer or foreign dealer from whom he obtained such products, the price paid or agreed to be paid therefor, if any, the importer's stocks remaining on hand in bonded warehouses, contracts or accepted orders for future delivery, the price at which and to whom such products have been and are sold or offered for sale, together with samples of such products, and any other information relative to any such products which said commission may require; (2) from any person engaged in the manufacture, or sale, within the United States or any of its possessions, of any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title, a sworn statement disclosing actual production, stocks on hand, contracts or accepted orders for future delivery, cost of production of such products, and price at which and to whom each of such products has been or is sold or is offered for sale, together with samples of such products, and any other information relative to any such products which said commission may require; and (3) from any consumer in the United States or any of its possessions of any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title, a sworn statement disclosing actual consumption, stocks on hand, contracts, the price at which and from whom such products were or are being purchased, together with samples of such products, and any other information relative to any such products which said commission may require.

(j) For the purpose of performing the duties imposed by this paragraph the commission shall also have the power, through its agents, to visit and inspect, during a period of three years after the date of the passage of this Act, all places of production and storage, and books, records, accounts, papers, correspondence, and documents of any person engaged in the manufacture, production, sale, importation, or importation for sale within the United States or any of its possessions of any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title.

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(k) The powers granted the said commission under Title VII of the Act entitled "An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,' approved September 8, 1916, shall, furthermore, be available for carrying into effect the provisions of this paragraph. The words "any district court of the United States" in section 706 of said Act shall mean and include any court of the United States.

(1) The information thus secured shall not be a matter of public record, but shall be for the confidential use of the United States Tariff Commission only and shall not be published or revealed except in the form of totals, averages, or summaries which shall not disclose the individual operations.

(m) The United States Tariff Commission, in performing the duties imposed upon it by this paragraph, may regulate, except as hereinbefore specified, its own practice and procedure and may make necessary and proper rules, regulations, and orders for the enforcement of the provisions of this paragraph.

(n) Any registered importer for sale who refuses or fails to comply with any rule, regulation, or order of the United States Tariff Commission issued by authority granted in this paragraph or any Act amendatory thereof, or any person engaged in the manufacture, production, sale or importation for sale, within the United States or any of its possessions, of any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title who refuses to permit a duly authorized agent of the commission to peform his duties under subparagraph (j), shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding $100. Each day during which such refusal or failure continues shall be deemed a separate offense.

(o) Any person who willfully misstates or misrepresents any fact to said commission at any hearing held pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph (c) or makes false affidavit in regard to the delivery any such product from customs custody shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.

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(p) Any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule i delivered in violation of the provisions of this paragraph may be proceeded against, in the district court for the district in which the product is found, for confiscation by process for libel for condemnation. If such product is condemned as delivered in violation of the provisions of this paragraph, the product shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury. The proceedings in such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any such case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.

(q) Any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title which shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury or abandoned to the Government shall be disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury under regulations prescribed by the Tariff Commission.

(r) Upon the date when this Act shall take effect all clerks and employees transferred to the Treasury Department under the Dye and Chemical Control Act, 1921, shall be transferred to and become clerks and employees of the United States Tariff Commission, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall forthwith cause to be transferred to said commission all documents, books, and other records of the Treasury Department relating to the issuance of individual import licenses on any of the products enumerated in paragraph 25 or 26 of schedule 1 of this title. All outstanding individual licenses. issued by the War Trade Board Section of the Department of State or by the Secretary of the Treasury prior to the date when this Act shall take effect shall remain in effect and the importations under such licenses shall be permitted for a period of three months after their respective dates of issue.

(s) To meet all necessary expenses of the United States Tariff Commission in performing the duties imposed upon it by this paragraph, including rental of suitable quarters, the purchase of supplies and equipment, books of reference, law books, periodicals, and printing and binding, and the payment of personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and traveling and subsistence expenses in the United States, the sum of $100,000, or so

much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922.

PAR. 28. Cobalt: Oxide, 20 cents per pound; sulphate, linoleate, and all other cobalt compounds, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 29. Cellulose esters, collodion and other liquid solutions of pyroxylin, of other cellulose esters or ethers, or of cellulose, 35 cents per pound.

PAR. 30. Compounds of pyroxylin, of other cellulose esters or ethers, or of cellulose by whatever name known, in blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, and not made into finished or partly finished articles, 40 cents per pound; made into finished or partly finished articles, of which any of the foregoing is the component material of chief value, 65 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all such articles, whether or not more specifically provided for elsewhere, shall be dutiable under this paragraph.

PAR. 31. Compounds of casein, known as galalith, or by any other name, in blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, not made into finished or partly finished articles, 25 cents per pound; made into finished or partly finished articles of which any of the foregoing is the component material of chief value, 40 cents per pound and 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 32. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, roots, stems, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and all other drugs of vegetable or animal origin; any of the foregoing which are natural and uncompounded drugs and not edible, and not specially provided for, but which are advanced 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, 10 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the term "drug" wherever used in this Act shall include only those substances having therapeutic or medicinal properties and chiefly used for medicinal purposes: And provided further, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 33. Aconite, aloes, asafetida, cocculus indicus, ipecac, jalap, manna, marshmallow or althea root, leaves or flowers, maté, and pyrethrum or insect flowers, all the foregoing which are natural and uncompounded, but which are advanced in value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to proper packing and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, 10 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 34. Buchu leaves, 10 cents per pound; coca leaves, 10 cents per pound; gentian, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; licorice root, one-half of 1 cent per pound; and sarsaparilla root, 1 cent per pound; belladonna, digitalis, henbane, and stramonium, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 35. Ergot, 10 cents per pound.

PAR. 36. Ethers and esters: Diethyl sulphate and dimethyl sulphate, 25 per centum ad valorem; ethyl acetate, 4 cents per pound; ethyl chloride, 15 cents per pound; ethyl ether, 6 cents per pound;

and ethers and esters of all kinds not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article containing more than 10 per centum of alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 37. Extracts, dyeing and tanning: Chestnut, cutch, chlorophyll, divi-divi, fustic, hemlock, logwood, mangrove, myrobalan, oak, Persian berry, quebracho, valonia, wattle, and other extracts, decoctions, or preparations of vegetable origin used for dyeing, coloring, staining, or tanning, not specially provided for, and combinations and mixtures of the foregoing articles in this paragraph, 12 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 38. Flavoring extracts and natural or synthetic fruit flavors, fruit esters, oils, and essences, all the foregoing not containing alcohol, and not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 39. Formaldehyde solution or formalin, solid formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde, and hexamethylenetetramine, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 40. Gelatin, glue, and glue size, 20 per centum ad valorem and 14 cents per pound; manufactures, wholly or in chief value of gelatin, casein glue, isinglass, and other fish sounds, cleaned, split, or otherwise prepared, and agar-agar, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 41. Glycerin, crude, 1 cent per pound; refined, 3 cents per pound.

PAR. 42. Ink, and ink powders, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 43. Iodine, resublimed, 20 cents per pound.

PAR. 44. Lead: Acetate, white, 3 cents per pound; acetate, brown, gray, or yellow, 2 cents per pound; nitrate, 2 cents per pound; arsenate, resinate, and all other lead compounds not specially provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 45. Licorice, extracts of, in pastes, rolls, or other forms, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 46. Lime, citrate of, 2 cents per pound.

PAR. 47. Magnesium: Carbonate, precipitated, 2 cents per pound; chloride, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; sulphate or Epsom salts, one-half of 1 cent per pound; oxide, medicinal, 7 cents per pound; calcined magnesia not suitable for medicinal use and calcined magnesite, including dead burned and grain, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound; and magnesite, crude or ground, one-half of 1 cent per pound.

PAR. 48. Menthol, and camphor, natural and synthetic, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 49. Oils, animal: Sod, herring, and menhaden, 8 cents per gallon; whale, seal, and sperm, 10 cents per gallon; cod and cod-liver, 12 cents per gallon; and all fish oils, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem; wool grease, crude, including that known commercially as degras or brown wool grease, one-half of 1 cent per pound; wool grease, not crude, including adeps lanæ, hydrous and anhydrous, 1 cent per pound; all other animal oils and greases, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 50. Oils, expressed or extracted: Castor oil, 4 cents per pound; cottonseed oil, coconut oil, and soya-bean oil, 2 cents per pound; hempseed oil, 1 cents per pound; linseed or flaxseed oil, raw,

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