The record-union., 1891-09-09
MEXICAN TARIFF.
THE NEW SCHEDULE AS OFF
CIALLY PUBLISHED.
No Change in the Duties on Grain
Agricultural Implements Re-
tanned ON the Free 6st.
Special 10 the RECoRD-UNIoN.


ST. LOUIS, Sept. S.-A dispatch from
the City of Mexico gives a summary ot
the new Mexican tariff, which has lust
made its appearance in the Did7TO (offi-
ciaD. The free list retains coal coke
wood, pulp, lumber, railway, telegraph,
telephone and electric light supplies,
barbed wire, iron pipe, sheet iron, Port
land cement, explosives for mines, power
machinery, boilers and engines, wheels
cables, ores, cordage, agricultural imple-
ments and number of other articles
Precious stones, formerly free, are taxed
from S3 to 50 per carat; sulphuric and
muriatic acids, formerly free, will be
three cents per kilOgram. This is metric
weight and equivalent to a little more
than l-5 pounds. There are no ad val
Orem duties, and unless otherwise speci-
fed the following duties are so much per
klOgram: Liquors, wine and beer in
glass unchanged; liquors in wood re-
duced from forty cents to thirty cents:
wine from twelve cents to ten cents. and
chemicals are reduced; phosphorus from
seyenty-fve cents to fifty cents: white
matches are increased from 81 25 to 81 so.
Common paper for certain purposes is
reduced from 10 cents to cents; brown
Wrapping-paper from cents to 5 cents.
Bristol board to % cents and pasteboard
to ID cents. Playing cards are increased
to 81 60: wall paper was 20 cents; it is
divided into three classes, and will pay
10, 20 and 80 cents, according to descrip-
ton. Paper with printed headings. doc
umentS blanks, monograms, as well as
printed tickets of all kinds will nav 81
Raw cotton is unchanged, as also cotton
cloth. There are some differences in
threads and in underwear, with a few
changes in linen and some reductions.
WoOlen carpets are lower, and there are
reductions in woolen cloth, underwear.
clothing, gloves and fringes. Grains are
not changed. Preserved fruits are in
creased from so to 70 cents; Virginia leaf
tobacco from IS to % cents; crude petro-
leum from l cent to cents; white refined
unchanged. Fixed oils not specified are
reduced from so to 20 cents, and lubricat-
ing oils to cents.
Common soaps are increased from Is to
25 cents; common glass bottles reduced
from to l cent; glass and porcelain
otherwise unchanged; furniture, finished
and ready for use. is advanced cents:
common wood furniture, unfinished, is
reduced from 15 to cents; jewelry is in
creased and will pay from $50 to S75, ac-
cording to class. Carriages are un-
changed. Firearms somewhat reduced.
Rubber cloth and rubber clothing are in
creased from so cents to 81. Machinery
for industrial use, agricultural, mines
and cars, to be free of duty, when it is not
arranged to be moved by crank or pedal:
if SO arranged, it is to pay cents.
Tools are reduced from 10 cents to 5
cents; steel ingots reduced from cents to
3 cents; pig iron reduced l to cents. and
bar iron to 10 cents, according to quality;
angle iron will be cents, sheet iron and
corrugated iron, galvanized or not, 4
cents: iron beams will remain at ! cant.
manufacturers of iron, not otherwise
specified, will be increased from 20 to 25
cents. On many cases legal weight is
substituted for gross weight, that is,
goods do not have to pay duty on box or
barrels containing them.