The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-17
WOOL SCHEDULE.
An Informing Study Of an
Important Tariff Feature.

Under the tariff previous to the Nc
kinney tariff. which for convenience we
will call the old law, and under the Me-
kinley law, wool is divided into three
classes.
The first class includes "meripo, mestiza,
metz, or metis woods, or other woods OF
merino blood, immediate or remote,
Down clothing woods, and wools OF like
charactep, with any OF the preceding, in
Guiding such as have been heretofore
usually lmported into the United States
from Busnos Ayres, New Zealand, Aus
tralia, Cape OF Good Hope, Russia, Great
IritinD Canada and elsewhere, also in
ciudipg all wool not hereinafter described
or designated in classes and 8.
Glass two includes, " Leicester, Cote
wolo, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools,
Canada wools or other like combing
WOODS OF English blood, and usually
known by the terms herein used, and also
hair Of camels, goats, alpaca and other
like animals"
Glass three includes, "Donskoi, native
South American, Cordova, Valparaiso,
native Smyrna, Russian came's hair, and
including all such woods OF like character
as have been heretofore usually imported
Greece, Egypt, Syria and elsewhere, ex-
cepting improved woods hereinafter pro-
vided for" The old law entitled class
three " Carpet woods and other similar
wooIs,n and described them as above, ex-
capt that Russian camels hair was
omitted.
The duty on wool OF the first class under
the old law, unwashed, of the value of 80
cents or less per pound, was 10 cents per
pound, of the value of over 80 cents per
pound; IL cents per pound; washed,
twice the amount OF duty on unwashed;
second, three times the amount of duty
on unwashed.
The Mckinley duty on unwashed wool
of the first class is IL cents per pound;
washed, twice the amount of duty on un-
washed; secured, three times the duty on
unwashcd.
The duty on unwashed wool OF the sec
ond class under the old law, of the value
of 80 cents per pound or less, was 10 cents
per pound; over 80 cents per pound in
value, IL cents: second, three times the
duty on unwashed. The Mckinley duty
on wool of the second class is II cents per
pound, unwashed, and three times as
much on secured wool.
Tie old law duty on third class wool OF
the value of IL cents per pound or less at
place Of export was 2a cents per pound;
over IL cents per pound in value, 8 cents
per pound; three times as much on secured
wool. The Mckinley duty on third class
wool of the value of 13 cents per pound or
less is 81 per cent. ad valorem; exceeding
the value OF Ii cents per pound, 30 per
cent ad valorem.
Under the old low, shoddy and waste
paid q duty of 10 cents per pound. Under
the Mckinley law "noils, shoddy, top
waste, slubbing waste, rowing waste, ring
waste, yarn waste, garnetted waste and
all other wastes composed wholly or in
part of WOOL" pay duty OF 30 cents per
pound; ''woolen rags, mungo and fiocks"
pay duty Of 10 cents per pound.
The Senate bill places duty
of 15 per cent. ad valorem on "flocks,
mungo, shoddy, garnetted waste, and car
bonixed noiis, or carbonized wool, and on
wool of the sheep, hair of the camel,
goat, alpaca, or other like animals, in the
form of rowing, roping or tops.
All the raw wool scheduled under
classes one, two and three, and q portion
of the noils, shoddy, waste, etc, scheduled
in paragraphs 3SS and 3S9 OF the McKin-
ley law, are put upon the free list by the
ooudtc Oil scneuuleS. Inen the senate
bili takes up the classification OF yarns
and cloths and follows along the course of
the old tariff law and the present tariff
law, looping of duty as it goes.
The following tables give, without at
tempting to go into technical detail, a
general and accurate view of the import
duties upon the ordinary forms of manu-
factured woolen goods laid under the law
In force up to 1890, the Mckinley law, now
In force, and the duties as fixed by the
bill that has just been passed by Con-
gress and is awaiting the action
of the President. By means of
these tables and the foregoing summary
OF the duties upon raw wool under the
present and preceding tariff laws, it is
easy to see, roughly, what the significance
of the change brought about by the Dem
ocratic administration is, SO far as the
change relates to wool and wooden goods.
WOOL AND woRsTED YARSs-oLD LAW.
Value Specific Dtuy Ad Valorem