The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-17
FOR CUBA.
The New Tariff
Goes Into
EFFECT JANUARY /.
Revision is for Rehabilita-
ton of Island.

Washington Dec. 19.-President Nc
Kinley, before leaving for the south
last Tuesday, signed an executive order
establishing a customs tariff for Cuba,
to go into effect January 1 next. This
tariff is based upon the report and rec
concentrations made by Robert P. Por-
ter, special commissioner of the United
States, who was sent to Cuba some
months ago for the purpose of investi-
eating revenue and customs of the ISL
and.
The free list under the new tariff in
cludes, among other things, stone I'M
wrought for paving purposes, plows,
hoes, hatchets. machetes, cane knives
etc, for agricultural purposes, and 9TH
err agricultural implements, not ma
chinery; manures, trees, quinine, hemp,
flax, and ramie, spun jute for manufac-
ture of sugar bags; books, maps, and
scientific instruments, for use Of
schools; coal and coke. mineral waters,
eigarets in boxes.
Following are export rates of duty:
Tobacco, per 1000, should wrapper and
filler leaves be exported in the same
| package, bale or bundle; the export
| duty leviable on wrapper tobacco shall
be collected when the weight of the lat
| ter exceeds 10 per cent of the total
Tobacco. cut 100 kilos, $9.75; other,
| sc. 30: cigars per thousand, SI.85; In the
! leaf or filled tobacco, harvested in the
province of Santiago de Cuba and eN-
! ported through the custom houses OF
| Santiago, Gibara or Manzhnlllo, 1UV K-
| los. S2.20; tobacco in the leaf for cigar
wrappers shall be liable to the duty
! leviable on tobacco in the leaf with a
surtax of 100 per cent.
The import duties include the follow
| ing: Tobacco in cakes, so-called
| ''Breva" or in carrots, 100 kilos, SlO.5Oi
! in powder or snuff per pound, IL GENTS
| leaf tobacco, stemmed or unstemnleo
whether wrapper or filler, per pound
IS: cigars, cigarets. cheroots Of al
| kinds per pound $3.50 and rs per cenl
ad valorem; paper cigars, clSarets
| $3.50 and % per cent ed valoreTn.
| 1t is explained that the new tarlh
| is a. revision of the temporary military
| tariff adopted August by the wal
department for Santiago, which was
| general reduction of 81 per cent on the
tariff imposed by Spain in all imports
ito Cuba from all countries except
| Spain. The rates in the new tariff are
greatly below the rates now in force
| at Santiago.
The new tariff has been framed witt
| a view to the rehabilitation of the Is
land The duty on paving stones, which
are likely to cut an important hgur'
in the sanitary rehabilitation of HAY
ana, has been abolished, and the duties
on chemicals, tar and pitch and crude
oil heavily cut. The iron ore and stee
rail duties have been reduced 80 pei
cent
Slight changes have been made in the
schedules relating to common soap
perfumery and raw materials, out o.
which these articles were manufac
tIred, with a view to encouraging the
manufacture Of these articles IN Cup ,a
The duty on common salt has been Gu
down more than tWo-thirds Of the ole
rate.
In cotton and manufactures thereo,
if has been deemed advisable to make
an increase on the Santiago tariff, 81
that the reduction from the Spanish
tariff will average 90 per cent instead O.
SO per cent.
the free list. with a view to the estab
Ushment in Havana of the manufao
tire of sugar bags and for the protec
tion of the rope and Irvine industry
established there.
Spun lutte has been placed on the fret
list because an American firm prom
ised in that event to start q. factory il
Havana
In the paper schedule a reduction has
been made of about 50 per cent from
the Spanish tariff. instead of nearly Y
nor cent as in the Santiago tariff. II
! order TO remove as far as possible the
limpediments to a supply of cheap lum-
Der for rebuilding what has been de-
stroyed by the war, it has been decid
ed to make a uniform reduction of 81
per cent on the entire lumber schedule
The proposed tariff makes nomina
charge of 81 per head on all imported
cattle in lieu of the tax collected By
/ the Spanish government for slaughter.
ing the animals when used for food.