Testimony Taken by the Subcommittee on the Tariff of the Senate Committee on Finance in Connection with the Bill H.R. 9051: To Reduce Taxation and Simplify the Laws in Relation to the Collection of the Revenue, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 - Tariff |
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20 per cent actual market value agent alcohol alizarine alpaca aniline appraisers bill of lading carpets cents per pound cents per square centum ad valorem CHAIRMAN cheroots chief value cloth coal-tar collector colored component material composed consignee copper cost cotton crude declaration dollars dutiable dyes eighteen hundred entry enumerated or provided exceeding exportation facture flax foreign forty per centum Free list hair hemp hereby imported merchandise industry Internal Revenue invoice iron or steel jute labor less manufactured material of chief merated one-half cents owner paid person PICKHARDT plates port production rate of duty reduce repealed Revised Statutes Secretary Senator ALDRICH Senator HISCOCK specially enumerated spirits square yard statement sugar tariff thereof thinner than number thirty per centum thirty-five per centum tion tobacco Treasury twenty per centum twenty-five per centum twenty-nine hundred United wares wholly wire gauge wool woolen
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Page 2632 - ... the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause, before...
Page 2443 - ... on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned : and if any non-enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates of duty are chargeable there shall be levied on such non-enumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest rate of duty...
Page 2558 - ... which forfeiture shall only apply to the whole of the merchandise or the value thereof in the case or package containing the particular article or articles of merchandise to which such fraud or false paper or statement relates.
Page 2466 - States ; but proof of the identity of such articles shall be made, under general regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury...
Page 2667 - 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 2401 - ... or wholesale price of such merchandise at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country from which the same has been imported...
Page 2558 - States any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or by means of any false statement, written or verbal, or by means of any false or fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or...
Page 2618 - ... wherever used in this Act, shall be held to mean that component material which shall exceed in value any other single component material of the article; and the. value of each component material shall be determined by the ascertained value of such material in its condition as found in the article.
Page 2628 - That whenever imported merchandise is subject to an ad valorem rate of duty, or to a duty based upon or regulated in any manner by the value thereof...
Page 2839 - Professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, in the actual possession at the time of persons arriving in the United States; but this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for any other person or persons, or for sale...