The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

DUTIES TO BE REDUCED

Present duty. (Proposed Duty

CLASS 1.
Articles of Food

Arrowroot .. •• • • s,=. per cwt.
Beer ..
Butter ..........
Buckwheat
Cassava powder ss. per cwt.
Cheese .... .... • • ..
Cider and Perry £lolos.per tun
Citron preserved in salt.. 10 per cent.
Cucumbers ditto lO per cent.
Fish. cured .
Flatus .
H0p5........
.. £4 10s. per cwt,
Maize or Indian corn.... as Barley.

meal....
Mustard flour
Pearl barley..
Rice ......

12s. per cwt.
ss. per cwt.
6s. per cwt.
rough and in the husk 7s. per quarter
Is. per cwt
3d. per lb

Sago
Sausages ...
Spirits, Foreign
Brandy
Geneva .......
Other ForeignSpiritt. If
Tapioca IQ. per cwt.
Tongues

£1 2s. 10d. gal

CLASS 2.—Agricultural.
Seeds, viz.:—
Canary. ..
Carraway los. per cwt.
Carrot
Clover
Leeks ....... ...... £1

Mustard .....
Onions...—. .
T_Tnenumerated

..
Is. 3d. pr bush
£1 per cwt.
10 per cent.

CLAss3.—Manufactures.
Boot Fronts . 3s. Gd. 1 dozen
--- large .. .3s Gd. J pairs.
Men's Boots and Shoes. r 14s. and £1
and others in like pro- Bs. per doz
portion pairs.
Cotton goods, made up.. 20 per cent.
Hats, beaver and silk Gd. &3s. 6d.
straw
chip ..... .• • •
bass, cane, or hair,
exceeding 22inehes 15s. per dozen.
not exceeding 22 in 10s. „
manufactures,l
rated ...
various rates.

Lace Thread and Pillow
Lace .
Platting of Straw
Silk manufactures*
Woollen Goods, made upl2o per cent.

CLASS 4.
Miscellaneous.
Agates or Cornelians,
manufactured or set l5 per cent.
Almond Paste 2O f,
Amber manufactures l5 ~
Beads
15
Bandstring Twist, ss. per 12 knots
Bast Rope
Blacking
Brass manufactures .. 15 per cent
Brocade of gold and silver,2o
Bronze manufactures.... 115
-- powder......
Buttons, metal .....
Candles
Carriages
Casks, empty
Catlings
China, &c.
Clocks ..........
Copper manufactures
Crayons ...... .
Crystal, cut...... • • • • •
Gauze Thread. ll5
Hair manufactures
Harp Strings ..
Iron and Steel, wrought .115
Japan or lacquered Ware 15
Latten wire ...
Lead manufactures
Leather manufactures,
unenumerated ..... 15 ~
Paper hangings .
- brown, made of old'

various rates,
120 per cent.
125
3s. per gross
20 per cent.
120 „

rope ..
- all other sorts, not
otherwise charged with
duty
millboard
} £1 lOs per cwt,
- scaleboard
Pencils
-of slate ........ .. 15 per cent. 5
Pewter manufactures.... 15
Pots, stone
Silkworm gut
Skin or fur manufactt
Soap, hard ....
- soft .
- Naples
Spa ware
Tallow .
Tin manufieture4
Ti;bacco pipes, clay
Turnery
Twine
Varnish
sp.
per
rcwt
cent
Wafers and sealing-wax.. 15 „
Washing balls ficl. per lb.
Whipcord „
Wire, gilt and silver ....112 per cent
Articles manufactured,
unenumerated

iresl2o SI
. 30s. per cwt.
... '2os. „
.. (565. „
•.. 15 per cent.
.. 3s. 2d. per cwt
,15 per cent.
..115 ..

20 per cent

SCHEDULE OF SILK DUTIES.

PRESENT RATES

Duty

Manufactures of silk, er of silk'
mixed with any other material
the produce of Europe, viz.:—
Silk or satin, plain, the lb 1

Silk, or; and at the option of the
officers of customs, for every
£lOO value, the lb. ..
Silk, figured or brocaded, the lb..
or, and at the option of the offi-
cers of the customs, for every
£lOO value, the lb..
Gauze, plain, the lb.
or, and at the option of the offi-
cers of the customs, for every
£lOO value, the lb. .
Gauze, figured or brocaded, the lb.
or, and at the option of the offi-
cers or the customs, fcr every
£lOO value the 1b...
Crape, plain, the lb
or, and at the option of the offi-
cers of the customs, for every
£lOO value the lb.
Crape, figured, the 1b...
or, and at the option of the offi-
cers of the customs, for every
£lOO value the 1b.......
Velvet, plain, the lb.
or, and at the option of the offi-
cers of the customs, for every
£lOO value the lb.

25 per cent
15s.

130 per cent
17s.

30 per cent
14;1 7s. Gd

130 per cent.
16s.

130 per cent
18s.

130 per cent
£1 2s.

X3O per cent.

12s. 6d. per cwt
£1 per barrel.

10s: per cwt

per quarter.
2s. 6d. per cwt.
ss. per cwt.
£5 ss. per tun.
5 per cent.

5 If
Is. per cwt.

IX2 ss. per cwt,
Is. per quarter,
6d. per cwt.

28. 6d. per cwt
Is. per cwt.
Is. per quarter.
6d. per cwt.
Id. per lb.

15s. per gallon

6d. per cwt.

is. per cwt

D 9. „

„
s. 3d. per cwt

per cwt

5 per cent.

I Is. 9d
I 2s. 9d

is. and 14s

10 per cent

24. each.
ss. per lb.
3s. 6d. per lb.

110 s. per dozen
17s. 6d. „

i one half of
1. present rates.

10 per cent
ss. per lb.
15 per cent

10 per cent
••

5 U

one h-tilf.
10 per cent

2d. pr'sqr yard

rlolos. per cwt
per cent.

20s. per cwt
14s. „

10 per cent.
Is. 6d. per cwt
10 per cent.

20s. per cwt
10 per cent.

Range,
per cent,

(From 16 to
X 36 per cent.

21 to 43

18 to 46

31 to 49

43 to 50

18 per cent

34 to 50