The Washington times., 1901-07-28
THE GERMAN TARIFF.
The Dutie. to BE Inposed Under the
New Bill.

New Bill.
The duties to be imposed on goods enter
ing Germany under the proposed new tar
if bill are as follows:
Wheat, maximum, 65 marks a ton, mini
mum, So marks; rye and oats. maximum,
60 marks, minimum, 80 marks.
Maize, 4 marks per metric hundred
weight, without minimum.
Barley, 4 marks per metric hundred
weight maximum and marks per metric
hundredweight minimum
Clover seed. marks per metric hum
dredweight-
Rice. marks per metric hundred
weight.
Malt or barley, a. marks per metric
hundredweight; other malt, . marks.
Cotton. free.
Hops. 10 marks and hop meal so marks
per metric hundredweight.
Vegetables. nearly all free of duty.
Apples. unpacked or in sacks. free of
duty: packed in other ways. marks per
metric hyndredweight
Hardwoods. not sawed, 20 pfennigs per
hundredweight, or mark 50 pfennigs per
solid metre Softwood. not sawed. 20
pfennigs per hundredweight, or i mark 20
pfennigs per solid metre. Hardwoods,
sawed. / mark 25 pfennigs per hundred
weight, or 10 marks per solid metre Soft
woods, sawed, mark 25 pfennigs per hun
dredweight, or marks 90 pfennigs per
solid metre.
Barrel slaves. 80 pfennigs per hundred
weight
Ho.s-s. worth from 300 marks to $500
marks, from 80 marks to 800 marks apiece.
Beef cattle, 25 marks. Young cattle, 10
marks. Calves, :. and hogs 10 marks
apiece
weight: prepared as table delicacies. 70
marks per hundredweight.
Meat extracts. 80 marks per hundred
weight.
lard marks 30 pfenniRS per hundred
weight.
Cheese 30 marks per hundredweight.
All fiours, except oat flour, 1S14 marks
per undreiweight: oat flour, 16 marks.
Cottonseed oil. in casks. l2le marks; not
in casks, 20 marks per hundredweight-
Sugar, 40 marks per hundredweight
Fruit sugars, glucose. dextrin, ETC., 40
marks per hundredweight.
Margarine butter. 80 marks per hun
dredweight.
Artificial lards. 121a marks per hundred
weight.
Fruit preparations. Is marks; in brandy.
SO marks per hundredwvsEct.
All Theoretically sealed foods otherwise
unspecified 10 marks per hundredweight.
Raw tobacco, So marks per hundred
weight; sternmed tobacco leaves and
chewing tobacco, $50 marks per hundred
weight; cigars and cigarettes, 2l0 marks
per hundredweight
Petroleum. 10 and marks per hundred
weight, according to quality.
Wool, free of duty.
from S5 to 120 marks per hundredweight
Wood manufactures as follows. per hun
d.edweight. in marks: Planed wood. o;
further manufactured. 10; prepared floor
ing to Is; furniture made from hard
wood u; in the rough. Is. finished fur
niture of soft woods, s, and in the rough,
12
Finished pig iron, / mark per hundred
weight; cast piping for walls. above
miIiimetres in the rough. 8 marks: the
same finished, ~ marks; the same, below
millimetres. in the rough: 6. and finished
9 marks. Rollers. rough, Sla marks;
finished, 10 marks. Fine castings. q
marks Balls and blooms. 1 mark so
pfennigs. Wrought bars and hoops. from
nigs and marks. Rough wire. from
to marks; polished or galvanized. from
3 marks 50 pfeanigs to marks.
Steam boilers, from to marks per
hundredweight.
Spades and shovels. 6; forks. 10; saws
Is and 20: files 10 to 40; rough screws. s.;
finished screws u marks per hundred
weight.
marks: lead. rolled 3: copper. wrought
or rolled. II: copper wire, IL marks per
hundredweight.
Locomotives. from to II marks per
Steam engines. 51k marks per hundred
weight.
Sewing machines. IS marks per hundred
weight.
Machinery for wood. iron. and stone
working, from 20 marks on machines
weighing 2ls hundredweight to 4 marks
on machines weighing ten tons. Steam
thrashers and mowers, marks per hun
dredweight.
Miscellaneous machinery. from marks
30 pfennigs to is marks per hundred
weight.
Dynamos and motors. from marks per
hundredweight on machines weighing five
hundredweight or less. TO marks on dy-
namos and motors weighing from five to
thirty huudre f%eight.
Telephone and telegraph apparatus, 60
marks rer hundredweight.
Wagons from 20 to 150 marks
Bicycles. $50 marks.
Buggies and carriages, from 100 to 200
marks.
Bicycle parts rough. 40 finished. $50
marks Der hundredweight.
Pianos and organs. 40. and pipe organs,
% marks.
Section of the bill provides that dutia-
BILE goods sent to Germany from countries
treating German ships and German goods
more unfavorably than those of other
countries may be assessed at double the
rates provided for under the bill. or to the
full value of the goods. and that goods on
the free list arriving from such countries
may be assessed 80 per cent of their full
value.