But no proof of identity shall be required in the case of any empty sacks, barrels, &c., already used, in relation to which no doubt exists that they have served as the means of exporting grain, &c., or are intended to be used as such in exporting grain, &c. Seventh. Sample cards and samples in cut pieces, or otherwise, solely fit for use as such. Eighth. Objects for art imported for exhibitions or for State and other public art institutions and collections, also other objects imported for the libraries and other scientific collections of public institutions, likewise natural curiosities intended for scientific collections. Ninth. Antiquarian objects (antiquer antiquities), provided the character of the same shall admit of no doubt that the value thereof consists in age and are not fit for any other use or purpose than for collections. Tenth. Materials used for building, repairing, or equipping sea-going vessels, inclusive of the ordinary ship fixtures, subject, however, to such regulations appertaining to the same as the Federal Council prescribe. As regards metal articles used for purposes aforesaid, the provisions now existing in the premises shall remain in force. SEC. 6. On goods coming from countries that treat German vessels, or goods of German origin, more unfavorably than the vessels or goods of other nations, no treaty stipulations to the contrary, an additional duty, not exceeding 50 per cent. of the amount of duty prescribed in the tariff in pursuance of this act, may be imposed. Such additional duty shall be levied by imperial decree, by and with the consent of the Federal Council. Upon the issue thereof, said decree shall at once be communicated to the Reichstag, if in session, otherwise it shall be so communicated to the Reichstag at the beginning of the first session of the same subsequent thereto. Failing to pass the Reichstag, said decree shall cease to have any force and effect. SEC. 7. First. For the goods designated in No. 9 of the tariff (grain, &c.), if the same be intended for sale exclusively outside of the customs territory, it shall be permitted to establish transit storehouses, not subject to official restrictions; in which storehouses the handling and repacking of the goods there stored may freely, and without requiring declaration, occur, and where the said goods may be mixed with domestic produce. And it is hereby provided that in exporting the goods so mixed the percentage of the foreign produce contained in the mixture shall be regarded as the quantity entitled to pass free of duty. But such transit storehouses for goods of the description aforesaid may also be permitted to be established regardless of the fact whether the same are intended to be shipped for sale beyond or into the customs territory. Second. Like provisions respecting transit storehouses as those prescribed in the clause 1 of this section shall apply to the wood enumer ated in No. 13 c of the tariff. The closing in of the places for storing in the premises may be dispensed with. Likewise may the woods coming under No. B c 1 of the tariff be temporarily removed from their place of storage, and, after having been subject to a process resulting in their classification under No. 2 c, returned to said place of storage. In the case of building and cabinet woods imported in rafts and shipped, under permit, to a further point, the Federal Council may provide facilitations in the mode of complying with the customs formalities as prescribed in general. Third. For mill products (No. 25 q of the tariff), when exported, a drawback of the import duty for foreign grain shall be allowed propor tionate to the percentage of foreign grain used in the manufacture of said products, and for the flour exported when certified, foreign grain corresponding in weight to the amount of grain required for producing said flour shall be admitted free of duty. The proper relative proportions in the premises shall be fixed by the Federal Council. Fourth. Full regulations in the premises (sections 108 and 109, sections 115 and 118 of the act approved July 1, 1879), including more particularly the requirements to be imposed on the persons keeping storehouses as aforesaid, shall be made by the Federal Council. SEC. 8. All revenues derived from customs duties and the tax on tobacco which shall exceed the sum of 130,000,000 marks per annum shall be distributed to the several states in like manner in proportion to the population as the same are required to contribute their money quota to the general expenditures of the empire. Distribution shall be made in accordance with the quarterly and annual statements of accounts required by article 39 of the constitution of the empire, but subject to a final settlement between the treasury of the empire and the several states. This provision shall take effect on the 1st of April, 1880. If the revenues collected from customs duties and the tax on tobacco within the period of time from October 1, 1879, to March 31, 1880, shall exceed the sum of 52,651,815 marks, the amount exceeding said sum shall be credited to the money quota required of the several states in proportion to their respective population. a. Waste from manufacture of iron (scraps, filings), from sheet-iron, tinned and zincked iron; waste from glass works, also broken glass and earthenware; from the manufacture of wax; of soap factories, the lye; of tanneries, the leather parings, also old worn-out pieces and other leather-waste fit for manufacturing purposes.. b. Blood of slaughtered animals, liquid or dry; sinews, malt, residuums, distillers' wash; chaff, bran; malt sprouts; hard coal ashes; dung, animal and other manures, such as soaked ashes, lime ashes, sugar bakers' clay, and bones of animals of whatever kind. Free. Free. NOTE TO b.--Otherwise dutiable artificial manufactures and dung salts are, by special permit and control of their use, admitted duty free. c. Rags of all kinds; paper shavings, written and printed waste paper; old fishing nets, old ropes and cords; picked lint NOTE. Waste, not specially enumerated, is treated as the raw materials from which it is derived. II.-Cotton and manufactures of cotton. Free. a. Cotton, raw, carded, combed, dyed b. Cotton wadding.... c. Cotton yarn, unmixed or mixed with linen, silk, wool, or other vegetable 3. Single or double twist, bleached or dyed, up to No. 17, English do.... Above No. 17 to No. 45, English... ..do... Above No. 45 to No. 60, English. Above No. 60 to No. 79, English. Above No. 79, English.... 36 00 42.00 48.00 6. Wicks, unplaited.. ..100 kilos.. $11 42 48.00 16 66 70.00 d. Goods of cotton alone or cotton with metal thread, unmixed with silk, 1. Raw (of raw yarn), close tissue, excepting cut velvets; net lace, 2. Unbleached close tissue; also finished, excepting cut velvets..do... 4. Curtain stuffs, bleached and finished.. 6. Laces and all embroideries.. ..do.. Note to d. 1. Cotton fishing nets, new. 100 kilos.... 2. Very coarse tissues of raw-spun cotton waste, also mixed with other 3. Raw textures for emery linen and for emory-cloth factories, by special III.--Lead, also alloyed with antimony, zine, tin, and manufactures thereof. a. Crude lead, old lead, lead, silver, and gold litharge b. Rolled lead, printing types ....... .100 kilos.. e. Rough lead articles, also combined with wood, iron, zinc, or tin, not pol- d. Fancy manufactures of lead, also mixed with other materials, if not be- 1. Brushes and brooms of best straw, rushes, grass, roots, esparto, b. Fancy, in connection with other materials, if not belonging to Class V.-Drugs, chemicals, and dye-stuffs. a. Ethers of all kinds, chloroform, collodion, etheric oils (except those hereafter enumerated under band i); essences, extracts, tinctures and waters containing alcohol or ether for the trade or medicinal use; all varnishes (except oil varnish), painters' gouache, and pastil colors ; Chinese ink, paint boxes, pencils and crayons; drawing chalk..100 kilos.. b. Oil of juniper and of rosemary .do... c. Oxalic acid and oxalic-acid potash; yellow, white, and red prussiate of potash d. Caustic potash, caustic natron, oil varnish. .100 kilos.. ..do.... e. Alum, printers' ink, chloride of lime, dye wood extract, gelatine, putty, glue, soot, shoe-blacking, sealing-wax, inks, and ink-powders, wagongrease, combustibles f. Soda, calcined; bicarbonate of soda g. Soda, raw, natural or artificial; crystallized soda, potash . Water (soluble) glass.... i. Raw chemical preparations for industrial or medical uses, drugs, apothecary wares, and dye-stuffs, not heretofore included under a to h or in other sections of the tarit; benzole, and other light tar oils, oil of turpentine, oil of resin, animal oil, natural and artificial mineral waters, inclusive of bottles and jugs; sealing wafers, concentrated juices, gunpowder, wine, yeast, dry or paste.. VI.-Iron and steel, manufactures of iron and steel. a. Pig-iron of all kinds, old iron, and such scrap-iron as does not come un- Free. 23 59 3211 German customs tariff-Continued. Commodities. Rates of duty. In United In marks. c. Plates and sheets of wrought iron: Note to b. 1. Loop-iron containing dross, raw rails, ingots. 2. Wrought iron, in bars, for wire-brush factories, by special permit, under control.. ..100 kilos.. 1. Rough 2. Polished, varnished, lacquered, coppered, tinned, zincked, or leaded, 100 kilos. .100 kilos.. d. Wire, also coppered, tinned, zincked, leaded, polished, or varnished, 100 kilos... e. Manufactures of iron and steel: Of iron roughly wrought for machines and wagons, bridges Rolled and drawn tubes of wrought iron.. Otherwise not provided for, also combined with wood....do.... Of fine cast iron, as light ornamental castings, polished castings, Clays and raw material substances, also burnt, washed, or ground, ores prepared or unprepared, not specially taxed, precious metals, as coins, in bars or pieces. VIII.-Flax, &c. Flax and other vegetable materials for spinning (except cotton), raw, dried, IX.-Grain and agricultural produce. a. Wheat, rye, oats, and pulse, and grains not otherwise provided for, 100 kilos X.-Glass and glass ware. a. Green and other natural colored common hollow glass, neither pressed, cut, nor polished; also covered with wicker of willow, broom, straw, or rushes: glass metal; raw optical glass (flint crown glass); raw ribbed glass plates; roof glass, enameling and glazing material; glass tubes and rods, without distinction of color, used for glass beads and fancy blowing glass ...100 kilos.. b. White hollow glass, not figured, uncut, not ground, not pressed, or only with finished stoppers, bottoms, or brims.. 100 kilos gross..] 58 German customs tariff-Continued. Commodities. X.-Glass and glass ware-Continued. c. Window and sheet glass in its natural color (green, partly or entirely white), uncut, not figured, if the single length and single breadth taken together measure: 1. Up to 120 centimeters. 2. Above 120 to 200 centimeters.. .100 kilos gross.. 3. Above 200 centimeters d. 1. Mirror glass, raw, not cut.. 100 kilos gross.. 2. Plate (window) and mirror glass, cut, polished, figured, ground, also colored and overlaid .100 kilos.. f. Colored, with exception of what is included in a, d, and e, painted or a. Horse hair, raw, heckled, boiled, dyed, and in plaits, spun bristles, oilcloth, raw bed feathers.. Free. c. Human hair, raw, or in any of the states specified in a b. Braids of horse hair; textiles of mixed materials of which either the entire warp or woof consists of horse hair. d. Wigs and other articles made of hair or imitation hair. .100 kilos.. e. Writing-quills, raw, ornamental feathers, not specified under f.....do... 71 3.00 6. 00 300.00 XII.-Hides and skins. a. Hides and skins, raw (green, salted, limed, dry), for conversion into b. Far skins Free. XIII.-Wood and other vegetable and animal materials for carving, and man ufactures thereof. a. Fire-wood, brush-wood, also brush wood brooms; charcoal, cork-wood, 2. Sawn or otherwise cut timber, barrel-staves, and similar sawn or staves g. Fancy wooden articles (with inlaid or carved work), fancy basket-ware, h. Upholstered furniture of all kinds: 2. Covered. |