The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-22
THE NEW RUSSIAN TARIFF.
Rates Advanced on Certain Articles
of American Manufacture.

The State Department has received re
ports from Chariemagn Tower, the
American Amba ssador at st. Petersburg,
and Thomas L. Heenan, the United States
Consul at odessa. in regard to the new
tariff rates imposed by the Russian Gov
eminent on certain manufactured articles
imported from the United States The in
creases amount to - per cent on certain
classes Of articles and 80 per cent on other
classes The tariff is based on the pOOd
C36II2 pounds. and the funt az poUndsD
The items and the rates involved are as
follows:
Castings in the rough, 1886 per pood /;
vessels of cast iron, enameled, $G92T; cast
iron wares. fled, polished, turned, paint
cd. brOnzed, timed. vanished, enameIed
{except yessels), zincked, or coated with
other common metals. even combined with
wood, copper, or its alloys Sl575.
Manufactures Of iron and steel, forged,
stamped, or cast, not fled, or filed on the
sides and edges only, but not otherwise
wrought, forged nails. $1.707 per pood.
Iron and steel boiler work. such as boil
ers. reservoirs. tanks, cases. bridges.
pipes, as well as all other articles OF sheet
iron or steel not especially mentioned,
sl-107-
Manufactures of iron or steel not espe-
cialfy mentioned, shaped, turned, polished,
or otherwise worked, combined or not
with wood, copper, or its alloys weighing
more than ~ pounds each, SL7O7; less
than AZ pounds. $2-1 each; padlocks and
others locks except those Of copper. also
wood screws $4-01T-
Tools for use of artists. trades. facto-
ries, and workshops, 81 i05.
Machinery, apparatus, and models
thereof complete or in parts, adjusted or
not: Gas and water meters. motors work
ed by gas, hot air, or petroleum. dyna-
mos, sewing machines. knitting machines.
portable engines with the exception Of
those mentioned in section %. tenders, fire
engines Except those mentioned in sec
ton 3. machines Of all kinds not espe-
ciaIIy mentioned of cast iron iron or
steel, with or without parts of other ma
teTials. Sl-IOT-
Locomotives for railroad and ordinary
roads, locomotive cars. steam yeIocfDedeS
and steam fire eXtinGuishing hose, 81 O3
per pOGd-
According TO a report from Holloway.
the American Consul General at St Pc
teTSbUrs, gold mining machinery for the
Trails and Siberia, and agricultural ma
ChineTy- which under a ukase of 1898
were admitted TO Russian ports free of
duty are not included in the order as
sessiGg additional duties, but are still ad-
mItted free
The Board Of Trade Journal" Of Lon
don, in publishing the tariff changes
above noted. specifies the following ma
chinery as not affected by the new pro-
visions. being separately fairfield: Rail
way locomotives and traction engines
locomotive wagons and steam wagon
cites agricultural machinery and appa-
ratus not provided with steam motors,
rclpfng and sheaf-binding machines
steam pfoWs clover threshers of a com
pIicated system with two drums, steam
tbreshers of q complicated system
with beating drums not less than
four and a half feet in Width and
with Joint pins not less thar forty
inches in width, hay scattererS, horse
rakas. grass-seed soTters, sOrters with
spiral wire cylinders, potato sorters, ma
chimes for scattering powdered manure,
crIshers. bellows. and injectoTs for vine
yards and trees, grape crushers. grape
presses with continuous motion, centrifu-
gal cream SeparatoTs with their parts. all
newly invented and improved agricultural
machines and implements intended for eX-
perimentaI stations and museums