The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-07
new TARIFF ACT
WAR DEPARTMENT tNNOUNCES
REVIVED SCHEDULE FOR PHIL
IPPINE ISLANDS
WILL TAKE EFFECT NOV. IS
Expected to Produce Million
Dollars a MOnth-Anticipates
Supreme Court De-
cisiOn.

| NEW YORK, Oct GA special to the
Journal of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin from Washington says: The
war department has just made public
the revised customs tariff of the Phil
ippine archipelago as enacted Sept. II
by the United States Philippine COM
mission. 1t takes effect Nov Is The
new tariff is a revision of the provisions
of General Order No. 40, office of the
United States military governor in the
Philippine islands, dated Oct %, 1892
and the several orders supplemental
thereto and amendatory thereof It's
PRONUNCIATION at this time may be re-
garded as an indication of the belief
entertained by the war department that
the supreme court will probably take the
same view in regard to the early revenue
relations with the Philippines as it did
with Porto Rico.
1t is expected, says the Journal of
Commences Washington correspondent,
that so long as the Philippines are I'M
der the war department and until con-
gress takes action they are, so far as
customs tariffs are concerned, regarded
as foreign territory. The new tariff
has been drafted for the purpose of
producing about $1,OOO,00o a month. Its
formation has been entirely by new
methods. 1t has been published and
republiShed and exporters and import
ers have been invited to examine it and
suggest changes or amendments. Before
it reached it's final form, it was found
these suggestions affected only about 3
per cent of the schedules.
The new act as already noted takes eff
feet Nov. Is, but this does not apply to
goods in transit on that date. Such
merchandise provided it arrives in the
Philippines within sixty days after Nov
Is, shall be dutiable under the provisions
of the law now existing. 1t will be
noted under section 10 that export du-
ties are imposed on certain products OF
the islands, including, among others, 81
per 100 kilos for rice, 5 cents per 100
klos for sugar, $1.50 per 100 kilos for
manufactured tobacco of all kinds and
whatever origin, and also for raw to-
baceo grown in the provinces of Caygan
Isabella and New Biscay Ouzon island); ;
raw tobacco grown in other provinces of
the archipelago is subject to an export
duty of but Is cents.
Section 10, which is mentioned as hav-
ing been changed in important respects,
is as follows:
'On the following products of the Phil
1ppine islands when exported therefrom
there shall be levied and collected on the
gross weight thereof export duties as fol-
lows:
kilos, 75c.
s'Indiga, 100 kilos, 25c. Indigo en-
ployed for dying Gintarron), 100 kilos,
25c.
stRice, 100 kilos, ST.
sugar, 100 kilos. SC.
''Coeoanuts, fresh and dried (copra),
100 kilos 10c.
Tobacco, manufactured, of all kinds,
and whatever origin, 100 kilos, $3.50.
Tobacco, raw, grown in the provinces
of Cagayan Isabella and New BiScay
Qsuzon islands,, 100 kilos, $3.50.
Tobacco, raw, grown in the Visayas
and Mindanao island, 100 kilos, 81.
Tobacco, raw grown in other portions
of the archipelago, 100 kilos, TIC.
Certificates of origin of raw tobacco
may be required by the customs authori-
ties when proof of the place of production
is necessary"