324. Caustic potash; caustic soda; sulphate and hyposulphate of lime; crude manganate and permanganate of potash and soda; sulphate and hyposulphate of soda; oxalic acid (oxalate); oxalate of potassa; sulphate of magnesia; chromate of potassa, yellow and red... XLVI.-Chemical products, colors, medicines, and perfumeries. 325. Blacking (pine soot, printer's ink, and Frankfort blacking, ground charcoal and coal blackings of all kinds, except granulated boneblack); shoe-blacking 326. Glue of all kinds; gelatine (animal and vegetable jelly); albumen and albumenoide, casein, caseum.. 327. Starch-paste (dextrine, leiogomme), and other substitutes for glue, not otherwise provided for; paste, glue, flour-paste, and similar starch containing glues and finishing materials 328. Starch, also starch meal. NOTE.-Starch for finishing purposes on producing permit on condition 329. Ether, collodium, chloroform; carbolic acid, pure, crystallized, and 330. Tar pigments and artificially prepared organic pigments a. In casks... b. In tin cans, bottles, &c.. 335. Lac-dye (with an admixture of resin, turpentine, mineral oil, or alcohol) 336. Drugs prepared, as well as all materials showing themselves by their inscriptions, labels, wrappers, &c., as medicines (also as medicines for animals), unless coming under goods with a higher tariff.. 337. Articles of perfumery (perfumed vinegars, grease, and oils in packages of less than 5 kilograms; alcoholic, aromatic essences and waters; all fragrant substances and mixtures recognized as perfumeries by their packing, labels, directions for use, &c.; fumigating pastils; perfumed powder); rouges, cosmetics. 338. Pitch torches.. 339. Tallow candles XLVII.-Candles and soap. 340. Wax candles, wax torches, wax tapers, night lights, wax matches. 342. Soap: a. Ordinary.. b. Fine, i. e., perfumed, or in cakes, balls, boxes, pots... XLVIII.-Explosive goods. 343. Explosive goods, ordinary, i. e., threads dipped in sulphur, matches, paper matches; tinder, natural, soaked; tinder, artificial; touch-wood (natural and artificial); touch-wood paper 344. Fireworks, fuses (quick-matches). 345. Percussion caps, with fulminate *Only by special permit. Florins. 4.00 1.50 1.50 1.20 6.00 1.50 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 24.00 3 00 10.00 24.00 24.00 50.00 1.50 6.00 10.00 11.00 4.00 15.00 1.50 10.00 24.00 *52.50 *24.00 XLIX.-Objects of art and literature. 348. Books, printed matter, also almanacs, newspapers, and handbills; maps (scientific), musical publications, paper written on, documents, and manuscripts. NOTE.-Almanacs, newspapers, and handbills being subject to stamp duty and control, their numbers, on entry, must be given. 349. Pictures on paper, i. e., copper-plate and steel engravings, lithographs, wood-cuts, photographs, &c., chromotypes on paper or on canvas.. 350. Paintings, i. e., paintings on woods and on base metals, not varnished, 351. Engraved plates of base metal, stone or wood.. NOTES.-(1.) Bound books, pictorial works, &c., or maps and pictures (2.) Framed pictures (No. 319) will be treated according to the (3.) Objects upon which the pictures and painting are placed L.-Refuse. 353. Manure, animal and other, also artificial manure (not of salt composi- 354. Bran; malt-germs; chaff; hard residue from the manufacture of fat oils, flows the hearth; pieces of broken glass and clay; refuse from the preparation of wax; refuse bathing and horse sponges; glovemakers' clippings; refuse from India rubber and guttapercha manufactories, as well as old pieces of such fabrics... 356. Rags and other refuse for the manufacture of paper, i. e., linen, cotton, silk, and woolen rags, paper cuttings (paper clippings), waste paper (written and printed), old nets, old ropes, and old cords; lint (linen scraped) NOTE.-Refuse not otherwise provided for, and not adapted for other PART II.-EXPORTS. Florins. Free. Free. Free. Free. Free. Free. Free. Free. Free. 4.00 357. Rags and other refuse for the manufacture of paper i. e., linen, cotton, silk, and woolen rags; also pulp (half-inaterial, firm or fluid paper pulp), paper cuttings (paper clippings), waste paper (written and printed), old nets, old ropes, and old cords ... All other goods not enumerated here are free. JAMES RILEY WEAVER, Consul-General. VIENNA, June 17, 1882. PROPOSED DUTY ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. Consul-General Weaver, of Vienna, in a dispatch dated April 4, says: On the 1st instant, in the lower house of the Austrian Reichsrath, Dr. Kronawetler, one of the advanced liberal members from this city, replying to a petition of the farmers' society of Spielfield in Styria, which among other demands asked for an increase of the entry duties on field products, made the following remarks, translated literally from the report thereof given in the "Neue freie Presse" of April 2, which may be of interest, seeing that they substantiate the position taken in my dispatch, No. 119, under date of 16th ultimo, as to the probable causes that actuated the Government to prohibit the importation of American swine products into Austria-Hungary. Dr. Kronawetler said: "I find under the articles of the petition one that absolutely fails to please me [laughter], that is the second article, which reads 'Increase of entry duties on agricultural products.' From the tariff debate, which took place at the time, we know that precisely a large number of field products were then covered with an increase of entry duties. The agriculturalists have succeeded further, in that to the detriment of the large cities, under the pretext of the introduction of the cattle plague, the importation of cattle, and, under the pretext of the trichinæ contained therein, the importation of American pork, have been prohibited. Yes, gentlemen, where shall this lead to? In Austria there are not only farmers in existence [laughter], but there are also inhabitants of cities, who are not there to become impoverished by the country people. [Bravo, bravo, from the extreme left.] Among the peasants are found large landowners, who own large flocks of sheep which they willingly sell to the inhabitants of the city at a high price. During the past century it has been esteemed the task and advantage of an administration if it should provide that the necessaries of life should become cheap. Now, suddenly, however, attention must be directed to the peasant population, among whom millionaires are found. [Cries of opposition and approbation.] The large landowners of Bohemia belong certainly to the peasant population. In the large cities you find more want and distress than in the rural districts, and the state representatives must likewise provide for cities. The abolition of the corn tax in England has always been pointed out as an acquisition, and shall the House of Representatives (abgeordnetenhaus) now recommend the restoration of measures long ago vanquished from a natural economical standpoint? I am not here in a position to offer a motion, but perhaps my remarks are sufficient to bring it about that such matters may be judged not alone with regard to the farming classes, but with regard to the entire population, and to the residents of cities. [Bravo, bravo.]" SERVIA. THE SERVIAN TARIFF OF IMPORTS. REPORT BY CONSUL SCHUYLER, of athens. The old customs tariff of Servia is not in force for those countries which have concluded treaties giving them the rights of the most favored nation. The commercial treaty with Austria-Hungary and that with Great Britain impose a new tariff on various objects. Commercial treaties have also been concluded with Germany and France, which are said to contain new reductions of duties, but the ratifications of these treaties have not yet been exchanged, and they are therefore not yet in force. No new general tariff will be published until the completion of these treaties. Goods coming from the United States would, therefore, follow the tariff contained in Annex A to the commercial treaty between Servia and Austria-Hungary, modified in certain articles by the reductions made in the treaty with Great Britain. Annex A to the commercial treaty with Austria-Hungary is as follows: I.-SPECIFIC DUTIES. 1. Paper: Francs per 100 kilograms. a. Packing paper (including gray, straw, and blotting paper, as well as ever b. Printing and writing paper, even colored c. Letter paper of every kind, and envelopes (even in card-board), printed, 4.00 7.00 10.00 d. Cigarette paper cut up and in books... 15.00 e. Registers and memorandum books, bound in cloth or leather, with 20.00 f. Playing cards 35.00 Tare in percentage of the gross weight: 15 in cases or barrels, 10 in baskets, 5 in bales or sacks. 2. Flour and mill products, grain, pearled, crushed, and hulled, semolina and groats 3. Wool tissues: 1.00 a. (1) Rough blankets (for horses and for beds), ordinary carpets of goats' 16.00 (2.) Rough cloths, such as cloth called halina coarse cloth (Loden), aba, 20.00 Tare in percentage of the gross weights: 16 in cases or barrels, 8 in baskets, 5 in bales or sack. b. Tissues, even mixed with a small quantity of silk, or with metallic (1.) Cloths and tissues analogous to cloths for men's clothes and other REMARK.-Under "tissues analogous to cloths" are included also all the (2.) Thin, light stuffs, serving generally for women's garments (Or- 58.00 90.00 Francs per 100 kilograms. Tare in percentage of the gross weights: 18 in cases of barrels, 10 in baskets, 5 in bales or sacks. REMARK.-The following stuffs are included under the above: Alpaca, mohair, Orleans, Thibet, lustring, cashmere, serge, llama, goats' hair, satin, Italia cloth, merino, damask, rep, and stuffs for furniture, and fashionable stuffs for women. Handkerchiefs, shawls, and scarfs may be trimmed with simple embroidery. 4. Articles in wood: a. Ordinary, i. e., wheelwrights', coopers', turners', and carpenters' work; nor polished, nor combined with other materials, except iron.... 2.00 REMARK Under the above are included: Casks, vats, tubs, troughs, spouts, baskets, buckets, wheels and other parts of carts (excepting ready-made carts), wheelbarrows, hand-carts, and sledges, floors and their belongings, oars, benches, tables, chairs, beds, wardrobes, yokes, saddle-bows, calendars, turners' benches, sheaves, ladders, lasts, clogs, fowl-cages, spoons, plates, ordinary toys, boxes, rakes, forks, spades, boot pegs, toothpicks, strips for matches, and all other similar articles in wood, in the rough, neither painted, varnished, nor polished. Corks and cork soles are also included in this category. b. Furniture (and trunks) in soft wood, simply painted (or with flowers c. Joiners' and turners' work and other articles of painted wood (except Tare in percentage of the gross weights; 18 in cases or barrels, 12 in bas- REMARK.-The following are included in this category: Toys in wood only, pipe-stems, pipes, and cigar-holders, in wood only, sticks not 5. Railway transport material. Exempt. 6. Drinks and liquids. a. Wine in casks: 1. From the growth of the districts of Versecz, Feher-Templon Tare in percentage of the gross weights: 11 in double casks. 3.00 8.00 2.50 2. Other growths. 6.00 b. Distilled spirits (alcohol, spirits of wine, brandy, rum, liquors): 1. In casks 2. In bottles. baskets, and 24 for the bottles. 6.00 20.00 3.00 Tare in percentage of the gross weights: 11 in cases or double casks, 5 in c. Beer in casks and bottles.... REMARK.-If, on the entry of beer imported in bottles, the importer declares that he will export the bottles within three months, the tare of 35 per cent of the weight of these bottles will not be deducted; on the other hand, custom-houses by which the beer enters will make a note of the number of bottles imported, and will restore, on the exportation of an equal or smaller number of beer bottles within the above-mentioned period, the customs and trosarina duties which correspond to their effective weight without levying any exportation duty. Tare on percentage of the gross weights: 25 in double casks, 20 in cases, 15 in simple casks, 5 in baskets, and 35 for the bottles. d. Vinegar 7. Mineral waters, including the bottles and pitchers... 9. Large plaster and stone work, such as gravestones, monuments, columns 2.00 0.50 Free. 1.50 2.00 |