Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-09
MEXICAN TARIFF CHANGES.
Duties Altered on Many Articles Produced
in Pittsburg.


CRY OF MExIco, Sept. S.-The following is
q summary OF the new Mexican tariff which
has just made its appearance in the Didrto
Official One OF the most notable features of
the new law is its greater definiteness. The
number of GLASSES of merchandise have been
increased from $50 to over 300, with o CORE
spending gain in convenience.
The free list retains coal, coke, wood pulp
lumber, railway, telegraph, telephone and
electric light supplies, barbed wire, iron
pipe, sheet iron, Portland cement, explo-
sives for mines, power machinery, boilers
and engine wheels, cables, ores, cordage,
agricultural implements and q number Of
other articles. The precious stones, for
merly free, are taxed from $3 to IS carat
Sulphuric and muriatic acids, formerly
free, will be 8 cents kilogramme. This is
the metric weight, and is equivalent to l5
pounds
less otherwise specified, the following duties
are so much per kilogramme: Liquors, wine
ana beer in glass are unchanged; liquors In
wood are reduced from 40 cents to 30 cents;
wine from to 10 cents and beer to cents;
Many drugs or chemicals have been re-
duoed: Phosphorus from 75 to 80 cents,
while matches are increased from 81 % to
81 80. Common paper for certain purposes
is reduced from 10 to cents; brown wrap
ping paper from TO cents; envelopes from
45 to % cents; Bristol board to Is cents, and
Increased, Wall paper is divided into
Glasses, and will pay 10 cents, % cents and
80 cents, according to description. Paper
with printed headings , d9oSmsnt a;nn Dia1ss n9 I
kinds, will pay 81. Raw cotton Is un-
changed, as is also cotton cloth. There are
some differences in threads and in under
wear. There are few changes in linen and
some reductions. Silk is practically un-
changed. Woolen carpets are lower, and so
are woolen cloth underwear, clothing,gloves
and fringes.
Grains are not changed. Preserved fruits
are increased from 30 to 10 cents, Virginia
leaf tobacco from ID to % cents; crude pc
troleum from ! cent to cents; white, re-
fined is unchanged. Fixed oils not speci-
fed are reduced from 80 to % cents, and
lubricating only cents; common scraps are
increased from Is to So cents.
Common glass bottles a,ssie are reduced from rs
unchanged. Furniture, finished and ready
for use, has been advanced cents, and will
pay from 20 cents to 40 cents, according to
fshed Is reduced from 10 to cents. Jewelry
is increased and will pay from $50 to $50, so-
eording to class.
Carriages are unchanged and Will pay
finished and upholstered carriages will only
pay for the same class from 10 to 80 cents.
Firearms are somewhat reduced. Rubber
from so cents to 50. Machinery for indus
trial use, agriculture. mines, are to be free
of duty when it is not arranged to be moved
by crank, pedal or lever; If so arranged 1t is
to pay cents.
Tools are reduced from 10 cents to cents.
Steel ingots are reduced from cents to 8
cents. Pig iron is increased from cent to
cents; bar iron from cents to 10 cents.
Angle iron will be cents; sheet iron and
corrugated iron, galvanized or not, cents
Iron beams will remain at cent. Manufac-
lures of iron not otherwise specified will be
increased from 20 cents to Is cents. On
many cases legal weight is substituted for
gross weight-that is, the goods do not have
to pay the duty on the box or barrels con-
tanning them