The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-18 00:00:00

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alorem duty of one hun-
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cent. upon brandy, cordials, &c.

Me A imposes ad

Sched

poses 40 per cent. upon preserves,
ed foreign fruits, manufactures of

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cedar and other fine woods, prepared vegetables,
and meats, spices, cigars, snuffs, and other manu-
factures of tobacco, foreign wines, &c.

Schedule B imposes a duty of 30 per cent, upon
German silver articles, ale and porter, embroidered
goods and made-up wearing apparel, and other ar-
ticles worn which are made up by hand, cosmetics
and tinctures, baskets, beads, Bologna sausages,
ornaments manufactured of hair, Indian rubber
braces, &c., cameos and mosaics set in metal, walking
sticks, pickles, corks, earthenware and China, fire
works, bonnet foundations, bonnets of straw or
other vegetable substances, fur caps, muffs, &c.,
knitted hosiery not otherwise provided for, card
cases, pocket books, &c., carpets and rugs, carriages,
peppers, cheese, clocks, coach and harness furni-
ture, coal and coke, cutlery, combs, &c., cotton
cords, gimps, laces, gold and silver tassels, &c.,
confectionary, jewellery and trinkets, artificial fea-

thers and flowers, umbrellas, household furniture
and other manufactures of wood, ground ginger,
grapes, gums, hat bodies, iron in bars, cast, or
scrap iron, japanned ware, manufactures of jet,
macaroni and all similar preparations, manufactures
of bone and horn, &c., articles of brass, copper,
&c., vessels of glass, coloured glass, &c., articles of
leather, marble paper and papier machee, manufac-
tures of wool, molasses, firearms, oil cloth, ochres,
oils essential and volatile, olive oil, olives, paper,
parchment, plated and gilt ware, saddlery, preserved
salmon, sewing silk, Indian rubber shoes, soaps,
unmanufactured tobacco, vellum, vinegar, unmanu-
factured wood and wool.

Schedule C imposes a duty of 25 per cent. upon
buttons, borax, preparations of mercury, camphor,
feather beds and feathers, floss silk, grass cloth,
hair seating, baizes and flannels, cables and cordage,
manufactures of cotton, goats hair or mohair, floor
matting, manufactures of silk, worsted goods, slates,
and woollen and worsted yarn. . . .

Schedule D imposes 20 per cent, upon chemicals,
unmanufactured goats' hair or mohair, unmanufac-
tured furniture woods, extracts from dyewoods and
madder, flaxseed, green turtle, drugs, dyes, &c.,
bacon, grain, blankets, blank hooks, bound or
unbound, hewn and sawed timber, planks, staves,
&c., iron and bronze liquor, marble, unmanufac-
tured, prepared willows, tiles and brick, cotton
hosiery, chromates and sulphates, copper rods, nails,
&c., steel not otherwise provided for, foreign fish,
glue, fruit, green or ripe, hair and other vegetable
substances for bedding, hat bodies wholly or chiefly
, hatters' plush of which cotton is the chief
component, seed oils, lead in sheets, bars, or pipes,
linens, crude drugs and bituminous substances,
wusical instruments, strings, &c., animal and fish
oils, oranges, lemons, &c., paints, dry and ground,
paper hangings, periodicals and other works in the
course of printing and republication in the United
States, saddlery, common, tinned, or japanned,
soda and salts, common salt, spermaceti candles,
starch, tallow and wax candles, thread laces and
inserting, types and type metal, cotton velvet and

Df wool

cotton and silk velvet Of which cotton is the chief
component, foreign whalebone, white and red lead,
window glass, woollen listings and yarns.
Schedule E imposes 15 per cent. upon arsenic,
barks, crude brimstone, tow of hemp or flax, glaziers'
diamonds, raw silk, not further manufactured than
singles, tram and thrown organzine, tinfoil and
plates, steel in bars, cast, shear, or German, zinc
and spelter in sheets.

Schedule F impOses 10 per cent, upon ammonia,
annatto, barilla, printed books and illustrated news-
papers (!) not otherwise provided for, chloride of
lime, cameos and mosaics not set, hronometers
and parts thereof, precious stones not set, engravings,
seeds, furs, gums, indigo, hair, india rubber, lime
and lemon juice, maps, music, palm and cocoa nut
oil, tallow and other grease for soaps, watches and
watch materials.

Schedule G imposes 5 per cent upon crude tartar,
Id bell metal, brass in pigs and bars and old brass,
yewoods in sticks, copper in pigs and bars and old

upper, berries, nuts, &c., used in dying, lastings
and cloths for shoes and boots exclusively, manu-
factured horns and teeth, old pewter, tin in pigs
unmanufactured shells, zinc, &c., and a
antity of articles used in dyeing.
Schedule H declares duty free animals imported
for b

and bare

d, bullion, coins and antiquities, tea and
coffee imported direct, copper ore, sheathing felt,
garden seeds, guano, furniture in use, models, paint-

...,,ported as objects of taste and not as mer-
chandize, plaster of paris unground, platina unma-
nufactured, copper sheathing in sheets 48 inches
long and 14 wide, and weighing from 14 to 34
's the square foot, specimens of natural history,
„ shrubs, &c., wearing apparel in
'nal books and instruments of trade, the
-,•riving in the United States.

mineralogy, tree

as compared with that
to tax more highly the luxuries of the
lowers the cost of articles consumed

rich, whilst it

npagne, which paid on an

, Burgundy, which paid 9 per

cent., and Madeira, which paid 5 per cent., are all
to pay 30 per cent. Silks, kid gloves, cosmetics,
high priced flannels, jewellery, &c., are raised from
low to high duties. Amongst articles of general
use we find spices reduced 60 per cent. and upwards
to 40 per cent ; treble ingrain carpeting from 73 to
tured iron, glass, common
ordinary silk handkerchiefs,
reduced. Vinegar
r".l J ; salt pays 20 per
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braces, woollen do

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01 7t) ; cotton

per cent

the running yard (the ordinary wear