Philippine Tariff: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Fifty-ninth Congress, First Session. December 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 1905. (To which is Appended the Public Hearings Held in the Philippines, August, 1905.) December, 1905

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - Sugar trade - 482 pages
 

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Page 2 - ... in the Philippine Islands upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise going into the Philippine Islands from the United States a tax equal to the internalrevenue tax imposed in the Philippine Islands upon the like articles, goods, wares, or merchandise of Philippine Islands manufacture...
Page 2 - That all articles, the growth, product, or manufacture, as hereinbefore defined, of the Philippine Islands, admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty under the provisions of this...
Page 2 - Islands a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the United States upon the like articles, goods, wares, or merchandise of domestic manufacture...
Page 205 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Ways and Means Committee, I am glad to have the opportunity of coming before you. I have been seriously discussed and " cussed "" and disputed, and my statements picked to pieces and made patchwork of again. Before proceeding in a regular way I would like to call attention to one or two little things. I want to call attention to Mr.
Page 2 - States shall be exempt from the payment of any tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws of the United States...
Page 2 - An Act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 26 - ... Manila address before the Taft party. He says, on page 59, that Cuba gets all the benefit of the tariff reductions. I think Mr. Colcock has shown this morning that Cuba did not get all the benefit of the reduction of the tariff which you granted on sugar coming from that island. Aside from Mr.
Page 2 - That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this Act, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles...
Page 2 - States upon the like articles of merchandise of domestic manufacture; such tax to be paid by internal-revenue stamp or stamps to be purchased and provided by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and to be procured from the collector of internal revenue at or most convenient to the port of entry of said merchandise in the United States, and to be affixed under such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall prescribe...

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