The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-27
new GERMAN TARIFF
EMPIRE WILL BEAR WEIGHT
OF PROTECTION
THE SCHEDULES ARE HEAVY
Tariff on Meats Ranges From
Thirty Marks to Seventy-FIve
Marks Per Metric Hun
dredveiEht

BERLIN, July 26-The Reichsanzeiger
today publishes draft of the new Gus
toms tariff law and the customs rates.
The bill sttpulates that in any new new
commercial treaties entered into by Ger
many, the duties shall not be lower than
5 marks on rye, 512 marks on wheat 8
marks on barley and marks on oats.
The duties on grain, provisions and cat
tie are as published last week by the
Stuttgarter Beobachter and already ca
bled to the Associated Press from Ber-
lin, with the exception Of potatoes, which
are exempt.
The North German Gazette, discussing
the publication by the Reichsanzeiger of
the customs announcements, points out
that the draft Of the new tariff was pub
ltshed because 1t already had been part
ly printed in an unauthorized manner,
but, as it has not yet been thoroughly
discussed in the Bundesrath, neither the
provisions OF the bill nor the customs
rates therein set down are unalterable
before the bill reaches the reichstag.
CONSUMERS WILL SETTLE.
The tariff bill, as printed by the Reichs-
anze1ger, hlls pamphlet of 167 pages.
The duties on frain are the same as pub
lished in the Stuttgarter Beobachter. The
duty on maize is 4 marks per metric
duty on barley is marks per metric
hundredweight, maximum, and 3 marks
per metric hundredweight minimum;
cloverseed will pay duty of marks
marks per metric hundredweight; malt
Of barley will pay marks per metric
hundredweight, while other malt will pay
9 marks Cotton is free and hop meal
will pay 60 marks.
Most all vegetables, as well as apples,
will be free of duty.
Hard woods, not sawed, will pay 20
pigs. per hundredweight, or 1 mark 80
sawed, will pay 20 pigs. per hundred
weight, or l mark 20 pigs. per solid
meter Hard woods, sawed, will pay 1
mark 20 pigs. per hundredweight, or 10
marks per solid meter; soft woods, saw
ed, will pay 1 mark 25 pigs. per hundred
weight, or marks so pigs per solid
meter; barrel slaves will pay 80 pigs. per
hundredweight; horses, worth from 800
marks to $500 marks are scaled under
tariff law to pay duties ranging from
30 marks to 300 marks apiece.
HIGH RATES ON MEAT
Beef cattle will be charged 25 marks,
young cattle Is, calves 4 and hogs 10
marks apiece. Fresh meats will pay 30
marks per hundredweight; prepared as
table delicacies they will pay rs marks
per hundredweight. Meat extracts will
pay 80 marks per hundredweight; sau-
sages 45, lard u marks 30 pigs. per
hundredweight, and oleomargarine will
pay the same as butter. Cheese will pay
30 marks per hundredweight; All ffours
hundredweight, while oat flour will pay
16 marks; cottonseed oil in casks will
pay 1917, and not in casks 20 marks per
hundredweight; sugar will pay 40 marks
per hundredweight, as will fruit sugars,
glucose dextrin, etc. Margarine but
ter will pay 80 marks; artificial lards will
pay 1214 marks; fruit preparations will
pay 75 marks, and in brandy so marks
per hundredweight. All hermetically
sealed foods otherwise unspecified will
pay rs marks per hundredweight.
Raw tobacco will pay IS marke per
hundredweight. as will the stems of raw
tobacco stemmed tobacco leaves and
chewing tobacco will pay 1S0 marks per
hundredweight; cigars and cigarettes will
and marks per hundredweight, accord
ing to quality. Wool will be admitted
free.
Leather will pay from 80 to 50 marks,
and shoes from IS to 120 marks per me-
trio hundredweight.
Wood manufactures will be taxed as
follows per hundredweight in marks:
Planed wood 6; further manufactured 10;
flooring, 6 to IS; furniture made from
hardwood, II; in the rough, 15; finished
furniture of soft wood 8, and in the rough
r.
PROTECTION TO IRONMASTERS.
Finished pig iron, 1 park per metric
hundredweight; cast piping for walls
above seven millimeters, in the rough g.;
the same finished, ~; the same below
seven millimeters in the rough, g. and
the latter finished, 8; rollers, rough, 91a;
finished, 10. Fine castings will pay "a
marks; rails and blooms, l mark so pigs. !;
rough bars and hoops will pay from 1
to marks; sheets, marks so pigs
and marks; rough will pay from 8 to
8; polished, or galvanized 1t will pay
from marks 90 pigs. to marks; steam
boilers will pay from to per metric
hundredweight; spades and shoveIs will
pay 6, forks 10, saws Is and 20, files 10
to 40, rough screws 8, finished screws 12;
aluminum. hammered or rolled, will pay
II marks; lead, rolled, 3; copper wrought
or rolled, u; copper wire, L.
Locomotives will pay from 9 to IL
marks per metric hundredweight; steam
engines will pay 91A marks per hundred
weight; sewing machines, S5; duties on
machinery for wood, iron and stone
working will range from 20 marks on
machines Weighing two and one-haIf
| hundredweight to 4 marks on ma
chimes weighing ten tons steam tfresh-
ers and mowers will pay 9, while the
duties on other machinery range from 8
marks 80 pigs. to IS marks per metric
hundredweight. The duties on dynamos
and motors range from 9 marks on ma
| chimes weighing 500 weight or less to 6
marks on dynamos and motors weighing