Francs per 100 kilograms.

10. Pottery:
a. Common pottery, glazed or unglazed, stoneware, pipes, stove and floor
tiles; these articles, even combined with unpolished or unvar-
nished wood or iron..

b. Fine pottery and porcelain of one color or white; also white decorated
with colored borders or ornaments; clay pipes; the above men-
tioned articles also with covers and ornaments in common metal.
Under this are included also the articles contained in heading a,
if they have similar covers or ornaments

c. Fine pottery and porcelain, colored, painted, gilded, or silvered; pot-
tery combined with other common materials, in so far as they are
not included in catogories a and b.

Tare in percentage of gross weights: 25 in cases or barrels, 20 in baskets

11. Glassware:

or crates.

a. Common glass, i. e., neither ground, polished, engraved, painted, nor
combined with other materials:

1. Window-glass in sheets, hollow glassware in its natural color,
glass and enamel in coarse bulk, glass slabs for roofs and pave-
ments, grooved or not.

2. Hollow glassware, white

b. Hollow glass (indicated under a) with stoppers, bottoms, or rims pol-
ished or ground..........

c. Polished glass, etched, or engraved, molded with designs, colored,
gilded, silvered, foliated, chandelier pendants, buttons, pearls,
coral, glass enamel, and paste..

REMARK.-Shanks for attaching the buttons and the thread on which the
pearls, coral, and glass enamel are strung, merely in order to fa-
cilitate packing and carriage, will not influence the taring of
these objects. If the glass objects strung on thread or string
can serve without other preparation, as jewels (for example, brace-
lets, necklaces, &c.), they will not come under division No. 11 c.

d. Glassware combined with other common materials... REMARK.-Objects of hollow glass covered with reed, rush, straw, or cane wicker-work will be treated according to the quality of the glass in division 11 a, b, or c.

Tare in percentage of the gross weights: 30 in cases or barrels, 20 in baskets or crates.

12. Iron and steel:

a. Iron in the rough, i. e., cast iron in bars, in bulk, pig iron, &c., malle-
able iron and steel in bars, in prisms, bulk, or other rough
pieces, iron in blooms (Luppeneisen, Rohzaggel), millbars (Roh-
scheinen), and ingots; old iron remains of iron and steel

b. Iron and steel, half-worked:

1. Iron and steel in rods, square, hoop iron, flat or round, angle and corner iron, and steel of every kind; iron and steel plates.... REMARK.-Under this heading are included all iron in bars or rods, drawn,

molded, or wrought, drawn and cast steel in bars or rods of all
kinds, iron called "Bosnian iron," hoop iron, L iron, V iron,
T and iron (girders), U, + iron, &c., as in general iron and
steel of all shapes used in trade.

2. Steel and iron plates and wire
c. Iron or steel agricultural tools and instruments, even with wooden arms
and handles, such as fish-spears, forks, cramps, picks, spades,
hatchets, rakes, scythes, sickles, chaff-cutting knives, harrows,
plows, plowshares, harrow-shares, hedge and sheep shears, &c..
Tare in percentage of gross weights: 10 in cases or barrels, 6 in baskets, 3
in bales or crates.

d. Steel or iron railway materials (except such as do not come under
machines or means of transport), for instance, rails, chairs, pieces
for the construction or the repair of rolling-stock, changing and
crossing of lines, points, &c., parts of iron constructions for rail-
way works..

2.00

6.00

14.00

3.00

5.00

5.00

12.00

20.00

0.80

2.00

3.00

6.00

Free.

13. Sole and other common leather, i. e., of a natural color, brown or black, also blacked, grained, drawn, but not bronzed or patent leather.... 30.00 Tare: 14 in cases or barrels, 10 in baskets, 6 in bales or sacks. 14. a. Coffee surrogates.

1. Raw

4.00

b. Sugar:

5.00

7.00

Tare: 13 in cases or barrels, 9 in baskets, 2 in bales or sacks.

2. Refined

Half-paste, liquid or solid mass for the manufacture of paper

Francs per 100 kilograms.

1.50

0.60

3.00

Free.

5.00

6.00

12.00

12.00

b. Materials for lighting, especially matches of all kinds (even in boxes), starch, and glue

Tare: 12 in cases or barrels, 8 in baskets, 4 in sacks or bales.

(2.) Scented soap.

16. a. (1.) Non-scented soap..

b. Wax, stearine, paraffine, cerine, and palmitic candles... Tare: 15 in cases or barrels, 8 in baskets, 3 in bales or sacks. 17. Machines and parts of machines in metal, wood, or other material, for the use of manufactures, trades, agriculture, breweries, and distilleries, transports by water and by land, baths and other analogous

uses

18. Cotton tissues:
a. Fustian (soft thick flannel) and other similar stuffs, unbleached muslin
for linings.
b. Fustian and other similar stuffs (Kalmuk, &c.), ticking, sacking,
"Schökl," i. e., bedding stuffs, woven in colors or squares, blank-
ets, stuffs for trousers and jackets, quilting, and other similar
padded stuffs, all these articles without exception, bleached,
dyed, or woven in colors or printed

c. Table linen and handkerchiefs woven in colors or printed Tare: 18 in cases or barrels, 12 in baskets, 5 in bales or sacks. 19. Hemp, flax, and jute:

a. 1. Coarse cloth for sacks and packing, as also ready-made sacks and
ticking for sacks. These articles may even bear colored stripes
as marks..

2. Common cloth (common homespun linen) and other similar strong
flax or hemp cloth (as" Flank," "Numerasch," "Kalamaika," &c.);
ticking for military clothes, sail-cloth, and other strong tissues;
all these kinds of cloth, even bleached but not dyed..

3. All these tissues enumerated under a 2 dyed; next the cloth called
"Gradl," i. e., twilled cloth for bedding, mattresses, palliasses,
furniture covers, canvas, and "Schökl," i. e., dyed stuff for linings
and sheetings in colored squares, glazed calico for clothes, bleached
or woven in colors, carpets of all kinds....

4. All flax tissues not included under a 1, 2, and 3, unbleached, bleached,
woven in colors or printed, with the exception of gauze, cambric,

and lawn

Tare: 18 in cases or barrels, 12 in baskets, 5 in bales or sacks.

b. Rope-makers' work:

1. Ropes, cables, and strings (also halters, traces, &c.) ................
2. Other rope-makers' work (twine, girths, canvas buckets and bottles,
nets, fire-engine, and gymnastic utensils), even combined with
other common materials.

Tare: 15 in cases or barrels, 10 in baskets, 3 in bales or sacks.

Free.

20.00

25.00

45.00

6.00

11.00

25.00

50.00

8.00

18.00

REMARK.-In the present tariff, under the designation of "ordinary or common materials," are included all materials other than shell, ivory, mother of pearl, Chinese lacquers, meerschaum, real agate, amber, the precious metals (including plated silver [chinasilber]), precious and fine stones, fine pearls and corals, silk stuffs (including velvet).

II. AD VALOREM DUTIES.

Goods tariffed at 6 per cent.

1 (v. I, divisions 4, 10, and 11). Toys of combined materials, pipe-stems, pipes and cigar holders of combined materials; canes combined with other materials; umbrella and parasol frames combined with materials other than those enumerated under 4 c; fine sculptured objects of wood, which do not form accessories to articles of furniture; chess boards and men; little detached figures (statuettes, &c.) in wood, china, or glass; jewelry in wood, china, or glass; needle cases and jewel boxes in wood, porcelain, or glass; cups and fans in wood, the latter covered with paper or tissues; and other small fancy objects in wood, porcelain, or glass, with or without combinations. 2. All iron or steel objects not contained in Table I under division 12 (except fine objects of cutlery and spurs, needles, hooks, pens, and pen-holders, beads, clockworks, arms, and ironmongery), even in combination with other common materials. 3. Thread of flax, hemp, and other vegetable textiles excepting cotton. 4. Leather, gutta-percha, or tissue shoes.

Goods tariffed at 15 per cent.

5. Tobacco and manufactured tobacco.

6. Southern fruits.

7. Spices.

8. Unground coffee, rice, sponges, whalebone.

9. Incense, gum, and rosin, not elsewhere taxed, rough or ground to powder. 10. Prepared medicine and perfumery.

11. Mineral oils.

12. Pig and turkey fat and other eatable animal fats, salted or molded butter. All other goods are tariffed at 8 per cent.

In six months, at the latest, from the date of the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty, the said ad valorem duties will be changed by mutual agreement to specific duties.

By Article VII of the treaty between Servia and Austria-Hungary, certain favors have been granted to the frontier traffic between AustriaHungary and Servia; and among those all goods imported directly into Servia from the free traffic of the customs territory (i. e., which have been manufactured in Austria-Hungary or have paid duties on importation) of the Austro-Hungarian frontier shall be submitted, at the choice of the importer, to half the duties, whether specific or ad valorem, applicable to the importations of the most favored nation. These goods are those comprised in Schedule A 1a, 9a, 10a, 11a, 1 and 2, 12a b, 1 (including remark c).

The following are exempt from all import or export duties in the direct commerce by the common frontiers of the two countries:

(1.) Travelers', boatmen's, carters', and workmen's effects, such as linen, clothes, traveling utensils, tools, and instruments destined for their own use and in a quantity proportionate to the circumstances.

(2.) Carriages serving really for the transport of persons and of goods; carts, baskets, and similar apparatus for transports; beasts of burden and draught animals; ships with regular inventories.

(3.) Ships' provisions.

(4.) Patterns and pattern-cards which cannot serve for other pur

poses.

(5) Ordinary packings and the cases, &c., in which goods are packed will not be tariffed separately, but will be treated according to the dis positions on the tares.

By Article III of the commercial treaty between Great Britain and Servia, of February 7, 1880, the following articles, when imported into Servia, are not to pay a duty exceeding 8 per cent. ad valorem:

Metal and metal manufactures, whether of one metal or different metals in combination.

Tools and cutlery of all kinds.

Machines and machinery, and detached parts thereof.

Agricultural implements and machinery.

Yarns, threads, and textile manufactures of all descriptions.

Pottery and porcelain wares and refined mineral oils.

Other goods shall pay, as the case may be, the specific duties in the Servian general conventional tariff, or an ad valorem duty of 10 per cent., at the option of the importer.

By a further declaration made between Servia and Great Britain on July 4, 1881, the duty of 8 per cent. ad valorem on woolen and cotton yarns and threads is reduced to 5 per cent. ad valorem.

When the ratifications of the commercial treaty signed between Servia and Germany on the 6th of January, 1883, shall be exchanged the im porter into Servia will have the option of paying ad valorem instead of specific duties, as follows: (The numbers are given according to the paragraphs of the tariff in the treaty with Austria-Hungary.)

The following changes were also made in the German treaty, chiefly on articles not mentioned in the Austro-Hungarian treaty:

Half-ground rags and paper pulp, free.

Woolen hosiery (knitted and netted goods) and fringe, per 100 kilograms, 100 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Small ware, also combined with metal thread, 100 kilograms, 70 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Woolen yarns (weaving, embroidering, and knitting yarn), 5 per cent. ad valorem.

Iron and steel. All iron and steel objects not mentioned under 12 a, b, c, d, and 17 (see Austro-Hungarian treaty above), (excepting fine cutlery and spurs, needles, hooks, pens, penholders and pencil-cases, steel pearls, clock and watch works, arms, ironmongery), even combined with other common materials, 6 per cent. ad valorem.

Leather, all not mentioned under 13 (vide Austro-Hungarian treaty), 7 per cent. ad valorem.

Aniline dyes, per 100 kilograms, 50 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem. Lead pencils and colored crayons, per 100 kilograms, 25 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Cotton goods, hosiery (knitted and netted goods), velvet, per 100 kilograms, 85 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Tape goods and small ware, also in combination with metal thread, per 100 kilograms, 40 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Cotton yarns and threads (weaving, sewing, embroidering, and knitting yarns and threads), 5 per cent. ad valorem.

Hemp, flax, and jute yarns (weaving and sewing yarns and threads), 6 per cent. ad valorem.

Half silk woven and small ware, i. e., silk or floret silk, mixed with cotton, linen, wool or other animal hair, also combined with metal thread, per 100 kilograms, 350 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Ready-made shirts and underwear, of cotton or linen, per 100 kilograms, 100 francs, or 8 per cent. ad valorem.

Prepared medicines and perfumeries, 10 per cent. ad valorem (instead of 15 per cent., as in Austro-Hungarian treaty).

All other goods, with the exception of tobacco and tobacco manufactures, southern fruits, spices, raw coffee, rice, combs, whalebones, incense, and not specially mentioned gums and rosins, in the lump or powdered, pig's fat, goose fat, and other eatable animal fats, salted or melted butter, 8 per cent. ad valorem.

EUGENE SCHUYLER,

Consul General.

UNITED STATES CONSULATE-GENERAL,

Athens, April 14, 1883.

RUSSIA.

THE NEW RUSSIAN TARIFF.

TRANSMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT BY CONSUL-GENERAL STANTON, OF ST. PETERSBURG.

I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the new Russian tariff which came into force on the 15th of July, 1882. The translation is by Edward C. Froom, esq., and is said to be very correct.

In connection herewith it may be said that this new tariff has greatly reduced the "free list" and largely increased the duties generally. EDGAR STANTON, Consul-General.

UNITED STATES CONSULATE GENERAL,

St. Petersburg, August 30, 1882.

TARIFF OF CUSTOMS DUTIES LEVIED IN THE EMPIRE OF RUSSIA FROM THE 1ST (13TH) JULY, 1882..

[Translated by EDWARD C. FROOM from the official Russian.]*

NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR.

The following tariff is, as nearly as possible, a translation of the Russian original, with all the changes and corrections which have been made, up to the 1st (13th) July. In the conversion of the Russian values and measures into English, every care has been taken to insure correctness.

The duty in Russia has to be paid in gold; thus, in converting the Russian values in these tables into English equivalents, the rouble has been taken at 38d. metallic, to give a sterling value.

This tariff came into force on the 1st (13th) July, 1882.

=

1 rouble (100 cop.)=38d.; 1 pood=36.08 pounds; 1 pound (Russ.) = 14.43 oz. avoir.; 1 arshin=28 inches.

N. B.-Poisons and strong reagents can be imported only by persons who have a license to trade in them.

* Watkins & Co., publishers, No. 10 Admiralty Plain, St. Petersburg.