The Tariff Act of August 5, 1909, on Imports Into the United States |
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addition thereto appraisers bonded cents per dozen cents per gallon cents per pound cents per square centum ad valorem chief value collector colored company or association component material composed wholly consignee containing court crude dollar and fifty dollars per dozen dozen pairs dutiable eight cents entry exportation fifteen cents fifteen per centum fifty cents five cents flax foregoing forty per centum forty-five per centum glass imported invoice iron or steel joint stock company jute Lace manufactured material of chief merchandise metal number per pound one-fourth cents one-half cents otherwise packages paper Philippine Islands plates prescribe printed provided further rate of duty Secretary specially provided square inch square yard thereof thirty per centum thirty-five per centum threads three cents three dollars Treasury twenty cents twenty per centum twenty-five cents twenty-five per centum United vegetable fiber wares wire gauge wood wood pulp wool yarns
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Page 121 - All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and proceedings or to the prosecution of offenses or for the recovery of penalties or forfeitures embraced in or modified, changed, or repealed hy this act, shall not be affected thereby...
Page 117 - ... all losses actually sustained within the year and not compensated by insurance or otherwise, including a reasonable allowance for depreciation of property, if any, and in the case of insurance companies the sums other than dividends, paid within the year on policy and annuity contracts and the net addition, if any, required by law to be made within the year to reserve funds...
Page 115 - Columbia, shall be subject to pay annually a special excise tax with respect to the carrying on or doing business by such corporation, joint stock company or association, or insurance company, equivalent to one per centum upon the entire net income over and above five thousand dollars received by it from all sources during such year...
Page 70 - States; but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made, under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the exemption of bags from duty shall apply only to such domestic bags as may be imported by the exporter thereof, and if any such articles are subject to internal tax at the time of exportation, such tax shall be proved to have been paid before exportation and not refunded...
Page 4 - An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and nine.
Page 70 - That this paragraph shall not apply to any article upon which an allowance of drawback has been made, the reimportation of which is hereby prohibited except upon payment of duties equal to the drawbacks allowed; or to any article manufactured in bonded warehouse and exported under any provision of law: And provided further, That when manufactured tobacco which has been exported without payment of internalrevenue tax shall be reimported it shall be retained in the custody of the collector of customs...
Page 69 - Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means...
Page 79 - Works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought by professional artists, lecturers, or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them temporarily for exhibition and in illustration, promotion, and encouragement of art, science, or Industry In the United States...
Page 83 - Islands, upon articles, goods, wares, or merchandise going into the Philippine Islands from the United States, a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the Philippine Islands upon...
Page 78 - That in case of residents of the United States returning from abroad all wearing apparel, personal and household effects taken by them out of the United States to foreign countries shall be admitted free of duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being established under appropriate rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury...