The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-27
THE EUROPA'S MAILS.
TEXT OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH
COMMERCIAL INCARCERATION OF
SAVOYARDS TO THE ENGLISH


TEXT OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH
COMMERCIAL TREATY--PEETITION OF
SAVOYARDs TO THE ENGLISH.
THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH COMMERCIAL
TREATY.
The treaty of commerce between France and
England, signed at Paris January %, 1860 and
ratified February 4th, opens with the usual formal
preamble in which the Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland and the Emperor of the French state that
in concluding this treaty they are equally animated
with the desire to draw closer the ties of friendship
which unite, unite the he two people, and wish to improve
aud extend the relations OF commerce between
their respective domnions. Here follows the list
of the essential part
ART. His Majesty the Emperor of the French
engages that on the following articles of British
production and manufacture, imported from the
United Kingdom into France, the duties shall in no
case exceed thirty per cent. od Uolorem, the two
additional declines included.
The articles follows: Refined sugar, tur-
merle in powder, rock crystal worked iron forged
in Jumps or prsms, brass wire, copper allowed
with zinc,) polished or unpublished, of every de-
| scription, chemical productions, enumerated or
non-enumerated, extracts of dyewoods, garancine,
| common soap of every description and perfumed
| soap, stone and earthenware, fine and common
china and porcelain ware, glass, crystal, mirrors
| and plate glass, cotton yarn, worsted and wooen
yarn of every description, yarns of fax and hemp
| yarns of hair, enumerated non-enumerated
cotton manufactures horsehair manufactures, emu
| merated or n0n-enumerated wOrsted and woollen
manufactures, enumerated or non-enumerated,
cloth list, manufactures of hair, silk manufactures
manufactures of waste and floss silk manufactures
| of bark and all other vegetable fbres enumerated
| or non-enumerated, manufactures of fax and hemp
mixed manufactures of every description, hosiery
| haberdashery. and small wares manufactures of
| caoutchouc and guttapercha, pure or mixed arti-
| ces of clothing, wholly or in part made up pre-
| pared skins, articles of every sort manufactured
| from leather skins, included or not under the
| denomination of small wares fine common, pla-
n
| wares, whether enumerated or not, pig and cast
iron of every description without distinction of
weight, bar and wrought iron, with the exception
| OF the kinds specified in Article XVII, steel ma
chinery, tools and mechanical instruments of every
description, carriages en springs, lined and paint
| ed, cabinet ware, carved work. and tllrnery of
| every description, worked ivory and wood, bran
dies and spirits, including those not distilled from
wines, cherries, moasses or rice, ships and boats
With respect to refined sugar and chemical pro-
ductOns, of which salt is the basis the excise or
inland duties shall be added to the amount of the
above specified duties.
ART. Hills Imperial Majesty engages to re-
duce the import duties in France on British coal
and coke to the amount of 15c. for the hundred
| kilogrammes, with the addition of the two
declines.
His Majesty the Emperor also engages, within
four years from the date of the ratification of the
present treaty, to establish upon the importation of
coal and coke by land and by sea uniform duty,
which shall not exceed that which is fixed by the
preceding paragraph.
ART. IlI.-It is understood that the rates of
duty mentioned in the preceding articles are indie
pendent of the differential duties in favor of
French shipping, with which duties they shall not
interfere.
ART. IV.-The duties od raloren, stipulated in the
present treaty shall be calculated on the value at
the place OF production or fabrication of the object
imported, with the addition of the cost of TRANSPORT
insurance, and commission necessary for the i'm
portation into France far the port of dis
charge.
For the levying of these duties the importer
shall make a written declaration at the Custom
House, stating the value and description of the
goods imported. If the Custom House authorities
shall be of opinion that the declared value is insult
fcient. they shall be at liberty to take the goods
on paying TO the importer the price declared with
addition Of five per cent
This payment, together with the restitution of
any duty which may have been levied upon such
goods, shall be made within fifteen days following
the declaration.
ART. V.-Hcr Britannia Majesty engages to re
commend to Parliament to enable her to abolish
the duties OF importation on the following articles
Sulphuric acid and other mineral acids; arates
and comedians set; lucifers of every description:
percussion caps: arms Of every description; lew
els set; TOYS; corks; brOcade Of gold and silver;
embroideries and needle work of every descriptions
brass and bronze manufactures and bronze metal:
canes walking canes sticks, umbrella and para
sol sticks, mounted, painted or otherwise orna-
mented; hats of whatever substance they NAV be
made; gloves stockings, socks, and other articles
leather manufactures; lace, manufactured of cot
ton, WOOL silk or linen; manufactures of iron and
steel; machinery and mechanical Instruments tools
and other Instruments cutlery and other articles
of steel, iron castron; fancy ornaments
of steel and iron; articles covered with COPPER by
galvanc process; millinery and artificial flowers;
raw fruits; gloves and other leather articles of
clothing; manufactures of caoutchouc and gutta
percha oils; musical Instruments; worsled and
wOolen shawls, plain, and printed or patterned:
coverdS woOllen gloves and other worsted and
woollen manufactures not enumerated; handker-
chiefs and other manufactures not enumerated, of
linen and hemp; perumerv, cabinet ware, carved
work and turnery of every description: clocks
watches and opera glasses; manufactures of lead
enumerated or not enumerated feathers, dressed
or not; goats and other hair manufactures: china
and porcelain ware stone and earthenware; grapes:
sulphate of qunline; salts of morphine; manuiac-
lures of silk, of silk mixed with any other mate
rials, of whatever description they may be-
Articles not enumerated in the tariff now paw
ing an dd rntorem duty of ten per cent. subject
however, to such measures OF precaution as the
protection of the public revenue may require
against the introduction of materials liable to Gus
tom excise duties, in the composition of articles
admitted duty free in virtue of the present para
graph.
ART. VI.-Her Britannia Majesty engages, also,
to propose to Parliament that the duties on the i'm
portatiOn of French wine be at once reduced to a
rate not exceeding 3s. gallon, and that from the
lst of April, 1861, the duties importation shall
be regulated follows:
l. On wine containing less than Is degrees of
proof spirit verified by Sykes's hydrometer, the
duty shall not exceed Is. gallon.
2. On wine containing from Is to &c degrees the
duty shall not exceed Is. Cd. gallon.
3. On wine containing from &c to 40 degrees the
duty shall not exceed 2s gallon.
4. On wine in bottles the duty shall not exceed
g. gallon.
5. Wine shall not be imported at any other ports
than those which shall be named for that purpose
before the present treaty shall come into force her
Brittanc Maj sty reservng to herself the right of
substituting other ports for those which shall have
been originally named or of increasing the number
of them.
The duty fixed upon the importation of wine at
ports other than those named shall be 2s gallon |
6. Her Brittanic Majesty reserves to herself the !
power, notwithstanding the provisions of this ar
ticle, to fix the maximum amount of spirit which
may be contained in liquor declared as wine. with
out, however, the maximum being low er than thir-
ty seven degrees.
ART. VII.-Her Britannia Majesty promises to
recommend to Parliament to admit into the United
Kingdom merchandise imported from France at a |
rate of duty equal to the excise duty which is or |
shall be imposed upon articles of the descrip-
ton in the United Kingdom. At the same time |
the duty chargeabe upon the importation of such !
merchandise may be augmented by such sum as |
shall be equivalent for the expenses which the svs
tenn of excise may entail upon the British producer
ART Vlll.-ln accordance with the preceding |
article her Britannia Majesty undertakes to recon-
mend to Parliament the admission into the United |
Kingdom of brandies and spirits imported from |
France at a duty exactly equal to the excise duty |
levied upon homemade spirits, with the addition |
of a surtax of two pence gallon, which will make |
the actual duty payable on French brandies and |
spirits S. I'd. the gallon.
Her Britannia Majesty also undertakes to re- |
commend to Parliament the admission of rum and |
tafia importe from the French colonies at the same
duty which is or shall be levied on these same ar
tsles imported from the British colonies.
Her Britannia Majesty undertakes to recommend |
to Parliament the admission of paper hangings i'm
ported from France at duty equal to the excise
tax-that is to say, at l4s per hundred weight;
and cardboard Of the same origin at duty which
shall not exceed los. per hundred weight.
Her Britannia Majesty further undertakes to
recommend to Parliament the admission of gold
and silver plate imported from France at duty
equal to the stamp excise duty which is charged
on British gold and silver.
ART IX-It is understood between the two biph
contracting powers that if one of them thinks it
necessary to establish excise tax or inland duty
upon any article of home production or manufac-
ture which is comprised among the preceding !
enumerated articles, the foreign imported article
of the same description may be Immediately liable
to an equivalent duty on importation.
1t is equally understood between the high con-
tracing powers that in case the British govern
ment should deem it necessary to increase the ex-
else duties levied upon homemade spirits the duties
on the importation of wines may be modified in the
following manner:
For cry increase of Is. per gallon of spirits on
the excise duty there may be on wines which pay
Is Cd. duty augmentation not exceeding l13d.
per gallon; and on wines which pay Is. aug
mentatiGn not exceeding 213d. per gallon.
ART. X.-The two high contracting parties re-
serve to themselves the power of levying upon all