The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-07
ISLAND TARIFF
To BE PAID ON GOODS I'M
PORTED INTO PORTO RICO.
The Free List. Except as to Coffee,
Applies, and Many other Articles
viii Pay No Impost.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE rates of
duty which the Porto Rican will ave TO
pay upon articles entering into his daily
life, If imported from the United States,
are shown by a statement just prepared
by the Treasury Bureau of statictics. 1t
states in precise terms the actual rate of
duty where the Dingley law names a spe-
cific rate per bushel, pound, or yard of the
article considered. while in cases where
the law makes an lad valorem'' rate of
duty, dependent upon the value OF the
goods, the price named is estimated at the
wholesale or average export rates, and
while Ii is thus below the retail price it
states fairly the amount of duty per pound,
bushel or yard which the Porto Rican
consumer will pay.
The following are the rates of duty
which will be collected under the new law
on the more important articles entering
Porto Rico from the United States:
Flour, free of duty; corn. "a cents per
tushel; bacon. free of duty; corn meal,
3 cents per bushel; rice, free of duty; oat-
meal. liz mills per pound; oats. pa cents
per bushel; pork. free of duty; dried ap-
PtCSb JIG PO0ld Nal0Oo at " III % AAlAc
cod fish, free of duty; brooms. valued at
$1.0 per dozen, on each broom, 6 mills;
mutton, free Of duty; candles, on one
pound valued at 5 cents, 1z mills; fresh
beef, free of duty; coal, bituminous, per
ton, l0c; coopers wares and wood, cut,
for making casks for sugar or molasses,
free of duty; cotton cloth, unbleached-On
one yard valued at 8 cents, 3 mills; on one
yard valued at 10 cents, 4 mills; on one
yard valued at II cents, 6 mills; shifting
nlnfh nm nna yard toltrnA NJ 1Clk nnnfc -
mills; bags for sugar, free of duty; ma
chinery for making and refining sugar,
free OF duty; wire, Nos. 1916, per pound,
2 2-l0 mills; plows, free of duty; nails. cut,
per pound, $40 Of i mill; hoes, free Of
duty; wire nails, per pound. ~ mills; ma
chetes, free of duty; steel bars, per pound,
$40 of l mill; agricultural implements. not
machinery. free of duty; boots and shoes,
on one pair valued at 81, 3 7-10 cents;
hatchets, free of duty: India rubber boots
and shoes, on one pair valued at 80 cents.
"a cents; cotton thread, on each dozen
spools of 200 yards valued at 26 cents, / s-10
lumber, free of duty; carpets, valued at
% cents per yard, on each yard, 2 6-10
cents; modern school furniture, free of
duty; dried herring, per pound, l mill
writing paper on each pound valued at
IL cents, s mills; lard, on each pound
valued at 6 cents, 3 mills; butter, on each
pound valued at IA cents, 6 mills; soap. on
each pound valued at 10 cents, 3 mills;
lime. free of duty; beans, per bushel, 6 7-1C
cents; household furniture, on each dol
lars value, 5 2-10 cents; harness and sad
dlery. on each dollars value, 6 7-10 cents;
earthenware, common, on each dollars
| value, 3 ITO cents: china, white, on each
dollars value, s 2-10 cents; glassware, COM
mon, on each dollars vlue, 6 ITO cents.
In addition to this the entire free list. OF
course, of the Dingley law applies to Porto
Rico, except as to coffee, on which The
| Porto Rican act levies a special duty In
the interest of the coffee growers of the
island.