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1. Paper.

2. Meal.

4. Articles in wood.

10 per cent. ad valorem.

6. b 1, 2; c, d. Spirits, beer and vinegar. 7. Mineral waters.

9. Large plaster and stone work.

11. Glassware.

13. Sole and other common leather.

14. Coffee surrogates.

15. a, b. Sulphuric and nitric acids, &c.

16. Soap, candles, &c.

19. b 1, 2. Ropes, cordage, &c.

3. Wool tissues.

6. a 1, 2. Wine.

10. Pottery.

8 per cent. ad valorem.

12. a, b, c. Iron and steel.

19. a 1, 2, 3, 4. Hemp, flax, and jute.

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.

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I.-ARTICLES OF FOOD.

Corn, in grain, of all kinds, except rice (§ 46); also

potatoes, free.

Vegetables, of every kind (except potatoes), fresh and dried, not pressed (§ 50); chicory in plants and roots, not prepared. Aniseed, caraway seed, coriander seed, and mustard, dry, not prepared. Canceled. Lemon, orange, and bitter orange peel, dried, not candied; peel of bitter oranges, salted, and dried, bitter, unripe oranges. Articles of food not specially mentioned

N. B. Fresh fish imported in Russian vessels pays no duty.

II. RAW AND HALF-MANUFACTUred MateRIALS. For building and manufacturing purposes:

1. Clays used in buildings, or for works or manufactures, except those mentioned in § 108, Article 2; trash, talc, in raw state, chalk, not refined, free.

2. Gypsum (raw), gypsum stone, lime, talc, and

chalk, refined and prepared:

a. Imported to Baltic ports...

b. Imported by other ports, free.

3. Cement, patent fire-bricks and stone slabs for stoves, Puzzolana, prepared gypsum or alabaster.

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1. Paving stones, silex (flint, &c.) in pieces, or ground and prepared; broken glass, free.

2. Filtering stones, millstones, Swedish and other whetstones (except those specially mentioned), grindstones (except those in § 145), all stone in slabs, stones for lithographic purposes, slate in rough state, mica, carbon filters.

NOTE.-Lithographic stones, with words or drawings, must pass the censor's office.

Stones, precious, not set, also imitations; real pearls in beads and on strings, garnets, coral (real), not worked (in pieces, not cut or pierced).

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Artificial stone for mosaic work (tesserae) and mo- 2 roubles per pood. 198. 8d. per cwt.

saic work not set; coral, artificial, not worked.

Jet, mother-of-pearl, tortoise shell, amber (yellow); meerschaum, not worked; enamel in lumps and powder (except blu enamel, 118); ivory.

Stassfurth salts (Abraum Salz), chloride of calcium,

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refined or not refined, free.

1. Raw and unrefined, free.

2. Refined and flowers of sulphur..

Metallic and mineral ores of every kind, graphite or plumbago in pieces. Copper scoriæ, iron in powder, cast-iron turnings. Coal, charcoal of wood or turf; coke and turf, free. OBS.-Coal and coke imported into Poland pay duty of 1 cop, per pood. Tar of all kinds, of wood, of coal, of naphtha, bitumen, and pitch, fluid or thick (except fossil tar, i. e., asphaltum, mineral wax, beeswax, naphtagil, &c., § 26, Article 6); also bird-lime. 17 Substances for tanning, viz, bark, acorns....

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28 Bricks, ordinary, and fire-bricks, tiles for roofing,

slabs of fire-clay, drainage and water

pipes, except those of metal, free.

29 Carpenters' work of every kind, wooden axles, 5 kopecks

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jambs, spokes, naves (of wheels), wheelbarrows, carts, and other rough articles not specially mentioned, and all coopers' work.

OBS.-Wooden pegs for shoes pay 30 kopecks per

pood, under § 180.

Basket work:

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15 kopecks per 18. 6d. per cwt. pood.

45 kopecks per 48. 5d. per cwt. pood.

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