The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-13
Assistant Secretary French Said to BE I'm
plicated in the Charges Against Super
vising Architect Hill.
A Convicted Counterfeiter Makes 6
Claim for Damages.
Yesterdays Proceedings in the Star-Route
Trial-Judge Lilley Seriously Injured by
Dorsey-Notes and Gossip.
THE NEW TARIFF ACT.
Some of the Changes Which Apply to Goods
in Bonded Warehouses.


WASHINGTON, March 12-The Treasury
Department to-day mailed copies of the new
tariff act to all collectors of customs, to-
gether with instructions that sections and
9 of the act go into effect at once and apply
to all goods in bonded warehouses, as well
as to goods imported after the date of the
passage of the act. Section repeals the
duty on charges heretofore added in ascer-
tanning the dutiable value of manufacturing,
preparing and putting up merchandise for
shipment, and makes the value so ascertained
basis for the assessment of duties. The
sections of the Revised Statutes repealed by
section of the new tariff bill, are sections
2907 and 2,908, and section IA of the act TO
amend the customs revenue laws and repeal
the moieties, approved. June %, 1874 They
are as follows:
Section 2.907 In determining the dutiable
value of merchandise, there shall be added to
The cost. or the actual wholesale price or gem
eral market value at the time OF expectation in
the principal markets of the country from
whence the same has been imported into the
United States, the cost of the transportation of
the merchandise, for the purpose of assessment
OF duties
This action will cause a considerable re-
ducton in the amount OF duties collected,
which reduction is estimated by some at 5
per cent. of the entire amount collected. Sec
ton of the tariff changes the man
ner of ascertaining the value of merchan-
disc consigned by manufacturers in foreign
coun tries to agents in the United States and
for which there is no foreign market value,
for the reason that the goods are specially
manufactured for sale in the United States
only The law authorizes the appraising
officer to ascertain the cost and value of the
material composing the merchandise at the
time and place of manufacture, together
with the expense of shipment and tranship-
ment, with all the expenses included from
the place of growth, production or manufac-
ture, whether by land or water, to the vessel
in which the shipment is made to the United
States; the value of the sack, box or covering
of any kind in which such merchandise is
contained, and commission at the usual
rates, but in no case less than
port duty, and all other actual or
usual charges for putting up, preparing and
packing for transportation or shipment All
charges of general character incurred in
the purchase of a general invoice shall be
distributed pro rata among all parts of such
invoice, and every part thereof charged with
duties based on such value shall be advanced
according to its proportion, and all other ar
ticles paying specific duties by grades shall
be graded and pay duty according to the
actual value so determined.
Section 2,90S requires that ''all additions
made to the entered value of merchandise
for charges shall be regarded as
part of the actual value of such
merchandise, and if such addition shall ex-
ceed by 10 per cent. the value declared in
the entry in addition to the duties imposed
by law, there shall be collected duty of 20
per cent on such value"
Long combing or carpet woods, are in part
excepted; with this exception, however the
operations of these provisions extend to all
imported goods on which a duty is laid. Sec
ton IA of the revenue act of June %, 1874,
makes these provisions still more strict by
authorizing the collector when charges are
omitted in the invoice, to make his own esti-
mate of them and then to collect duty on
twice the estimated amount All these pro-
visions have ceased to be law since the Sd of
March.