The age-herald., 1898-08-11
REGULATIONS FOR
 CUBAN PORTS In Connection With Duties of Imports and Exports. RATES MATERIALLY REDUCED All Determinations Have Been Abol- ished-United States Placed on Ex-
 actly Same Footing as
 Other Nations.

ment made puDuc the regulations which have been adopted for the guidance of of- ficers concerned in connection with duties on imports and exports. taxes and other charges and exactions to be collected as military. contribution at ports and places in Cuba in the possession or under the con- trol of the forces of the United States. Speaking generally the customs tariffs and the port and other charges have been made to correspond with the lowest rates ap- piled to imports and vessels from Spain, but in sevral .,nportant particulars these rates have bees materially reduced. The regulations are especially designed to fla ciltate ,importations and all dscrimiia- tions have been abolished. The United States is placed upon exactly the same footing as other foreign nations. As to the tonnage dues 1t is provided that at all ports in Cuba which may be in. possession or under administrative control of the land or naval forces of the United States there shall be the following navigation and port charges: 4. s.f On each entry of a vessel from port or place, except from another port or place in Cuba in possession or the united states per net ton, 20 cents.
 On each entry of a vessel from another port or place in Cuba in possession of the United States, cents.
 On each entry of a vessel which enters or clears in ballast the rate shall te one- half of those imposed above
 The tonnage of vessel shall be the net or register tonnage expressed in her na- tional certificate of registry.
 The tax of $1 on each ton of merchandise imported or exported, hitherto imposed as a substitute for tonnage taxes, is abolished. The present exemption of coal from this tax is continued.
 The present export tax of cents per gross to on iron is abolished.
 The harbor improvement taxes at san tiago de Cuba will continue to be levied as at present, as follows:
 Each steamer entering, $S.5O.
 Each sailing vessel entering, $4.25.
 Each ton of cargo landed from a steamer, % cents.
 Each ton of cargo landed From sailing vessel, 12 cents.
 Each ton of coal landed from steamer, 12 cents. $!
 Each ton of coal landed from sailing vessel 10 cents.
 The aforementioned articles may be im- ported into Cuba exempt from the duties stipulated in the tariffs on compliance with the prescfibed conditions and the formah- ties established for every case in the GUS toms ordinances
 Mangoes natural. -.. Trees, plants and moss in a natural or fresh state. exhibitions.
 Carriages trained animals, portable thea- ters, panoramas and other like articles.
 Works of fine art acquired by the gov ernment, academies or other official corpor- ations and intended for museums, galler- ies, or art schools, when due proof is given as to their destination. Gold in bars, powder or coined, also na- tional silver or bronze coins.
 Wearing apparel, toilet objects and arti- cles for personal use, bed and table linen, books. portable tools and instruments, the atrical costumes jewels and table service and bearing evident trace of having been used. imported by travellers in their lug gage in quantities proportionate 10 thelr class profession and position.
 The following rates of duties are imposed on the specified articles of food:
 Poultry, live or dead, and some game kill ogramrne, 10 pesos.
 Meat in brine, 100 kilogrammes, 300 pesos. Pork and lard, including bacon, 100 kilo' grammes, 6.30 pesos.
 Jerked beef 100 kilos, 396 pesos.
 Meat. of all other kinds, 100 kilos. S6o pesos.
 Butter 100 kilos, 4.40 pesos.
 Salt cod and stock fish, 100 kilos. 2.5O pesos.
 Fish, fresh, salted, smoked or marinated, including salt or brine, 100 kilos, 2.5O pesos. Oysters of all kinds and shell fish, dried or fresh, 100 kilos, 200 pesos.
 Rice, husked or not, 100 kilos, 2.20 pesos. Wheat, 100 kilos, 12O pesos.
 Other cereals, 100 kilos, 120 pesos. Flour of wheat, 100 kilos, 1.60 pesos. Flour of rice, 100 kilos, 200 pesos. Flour of other cereals, 100 kiios, l50 pesos. pd In iytf ia h hectolat 100 pesos, and in bottles, per hec. tolat, 1.40 pesos.
 The tobacco schedule is as follows: In cakes, so-called "breva" or in car rots 100 kilos, 10.t0 pesos
 In powder or snuff, or otherwise manu. factured, per pound .l2
 Leaf tobacco, stemmed, per pound, 150. Unstemmed per pound, 100.
 Cigars and cigarettes: On cigars weigh ing more than three wounds per 1,OOO per M., 3.60. at..
 Weighing not more than three pounds per 1000, per M, 100.
 On cigarettes weighing more than six pounds per 1000, per M., 360
 Weighing not more than three pounds per 1000, per M., L50 lows. asr-e
 Tobacco, manufactured, cigarettes In boxes of 1000, .50. .sst
 Tobacco cut, 100 kilos, 875 Cigars per 1000, 100.
 In the leaf or filler tobacco. harvested in the province of Santiago and exported through the custom house of Santiago or Manzahillo, 100 kilos,. 2.20
 Tobacco in the leaf for cigar wrappers shall be liable to the duty leviable on to- bacco in the leaf with surtax of 100 per cent
 The import duty on animals is given as follows:
 Horses and mares above the standard height. each 50 pesos; others. each 27 pesos. fNt
 Mules, each 20 pesos
 Asses, each I peso.
 Bovine animals:
 Oxen. each 8 pesos; cows, each pesos; bullocks, calves and heifers, each pesos. Pigs, each pesos.
 Sheep, goatas and animals not specially mentioned, each 150
 Singing birds. parrots. etc.. each 20 pe- sos. a -f-
 In giving the rate of duty, weights and measures, the metric system Is used. The following explanation Is given: A peso is equal to $.926. st