The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-17
4 new TARIFF FOR CUBA
sx1YrxopfR CENT lowER1HAN SPANISH
Duties Must nc Paid in American
Money--An Export Tax Levied ON
All Glasses OF Tobacco.

Washington, December 16.--Prcsident
Mckinley, before leaving for the South
last Tuesday, signed an executive order
establishing a customs tariff for the Island
OF Cuba to 60 into effect January ! next.
This tariff is based upon the report and
Recommendations made by Hon. Robert r.
Porter, special commissioner OF the United
States sent to Cuba some months ago for
the special purpose of making an investi-
cation Of the subjects of revenue and Gus
toms OF the island.
Following are some Of the more i'm
portant articles that may be imported into
cuba exempt from the duties stipulated in
the tariffs on compliance with the pre-
scribed conditiots and the formalities es-
tablished for every case in the customs
ordinances: Carriages, portable theaters,
panorama5 and other similar objects for
public entertainment; imported temper
arily, provided bond be given.
Recsptacles exported from Cuba with
fruits, sugar, honey AMI brandy and re-
imported empty.
Used furniture of persons coming TO
settlement in the island.
Works of fine art acquired by the gov
eminent academies or other official cor
porations ard intended for museum, gal
,erles or art schools.
Gold In bars, powder; also National sill
yer or bronze coins.
Wearing apparel, toilet objects ard ar
ticles for personal use, bed ana table linen,
books. portable tools and Instruments,
theatrical costumes. Jewel1 and table serv-
ices bearing evident traces of having been
used. imported by travellers in their lug
gage in quantities proportionate to their
class profession and position.
Pows, hoes. hatchetS machetcs, cane
knives, etc. for agricultural purposes and
other agricultural Implements not ma
chinery.
Spun jute for manufacture of sugar bags.
Books, maps and scientific instruments
for the use OF schools.
Coal and coke.
Mineral. carbonated or seit,er waters,
root beer, ginger ale and other similar
non alcoholic beverages, not otherwise
povlied for
Following are export rates of duty: To-
bacco, cigarettes in boxes per 1000. 90
cents. Should wrapper and filler leaves be
exported In the came package. bale or
bundle the export duty levlable on wrap
pers tobacco shall be collected When the
latter exceeds 10 per cent of the total
weight. Tobacco cut, 100 kilos, 81 10 Others
1880. Cigars, 1000. sl.S5. on leaf or filled
tobacco harvested in tho province of Sam
tiaso de Cuba and exported through the
customs houses of Santiago Gibara or
Manzanillo, 100 kilos. $500 Tobacco in the
lear for cigar wrappers shall BIO liable to
.ns duty leViabie on tobacco IN the leaf
with surtax of 100 PER cent
FNilawlng are the duties on alimentar,
substances twtAere articles are sold by
weigEt net weight OF 100 Kilograms is to
os understood. except when otherwise in
d11aoed or by hundllsdweigh grass weight,
poultry and small game, alive or dead,
per k.lo CENTS: Beef, brine or salt, 81. SO,
pork. brine or salt So so: lard, s.. So ba
con, "a; ham, $3.50; jerked beef, So %; beef
cannab IS: beef. fresh, 81. so; mutton, fresh
$50; pork, fresh, 81: butter. 81; cheese,
80; eggs. S.. Cereals: Rice. h,isked or
not. 81; wheat, 90 cents: Corn, 80 cents:
potatoes. 90 cents; rye, 40 cents: barley
90 cents; oats, 40 cents; wheat flour, SloO !;
rice flour, 81; corn flour. SO cents; oat
flour, sl.20; beans. $50.
Apparatus and machinery: Machinery
and apparatus Ter making sugar aa1
brandy, grosswelelht, 100 kilos, 10 per sent
ad valcrem; agricultural machinery and
apparatus. gross weight, 10 per cent al
valorem; steam motors. stationary G.. W.
20 per cent ad valorem; marine engines.
steam pumps hydraulic. petroleum. gas
and hot or compressed air motors. G. w,
20 Der cent ad valerom: sheet iron boilers,
G. W.. 20 per cent ad vslcTem; tubular
boilers G. W.. 20 per cent al valorem
Animals: Horses and mares. above the
Standard height. $40; all otheTs IS; mules,
so; asses. 50; oxen. 81 cows, 81; bullocks,
calves and heifers, 81; pigs, 81; sheep. goats
and animals not specifically ment oned, 81
Cotton, unblcached har bleached or
dyed in the piece. kllo cents: hleached.
printed or manufactured with dyed yarns,
kilo 20 cents.
In commenting upon the schedules Mr..
Porter says. In recommending changes of
rates in several of schedules OF this Cuban
tariff now In force In Cuban ports In pos
session of the United States / have been
guided by the following consideration:
!. The necessities of obtaining suffi-