Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-27
PAYNE BILL DUTIES LOVER
Operations for Year Show Average
Rate Diminished l.66 Per Cent.
HUGE JUMP IN THE IMPORTS
Excess Of Hundred Milton Dollars
worth OF Goods over Previous
YeRr--Receipts Larger by
About thirty Million.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2e-The operations
OF the Payne-Aldrich tariff law for one
year show that the average ad valorem
rate Of duty paid on imports OF all classes
was Les per cent lower than under the
Dingiey law, which was I'm force for the
previous year. The comparison was made
by the bureau Of statistics of the Depart
ment Of Commerce and Labor for the years
ending June 3d. 1909 and 1910
The recent revision OF the tariff has been
the subject of so much discussion In politi-
cal councils that these figures are expected
to attract wide attention. The comparison
deals with the eleven great groups of inn
ports-lumber, sugar, fruits and nuts,
liquors. chemicals, silk manufactures. cot
ton manufactures, iron and steel tobacco,
wool and manufactures, and fibers and
manufactures-which aggregate about two
thirds Of the total dutiable imports into
the United States.
1t Is demonstrated by the comparison
that more than $780, 1000 worth OF goods
were imported in 1910 under the new law
in excess Of the total in 1909, under the
Dingley law; that the revenues in the last
year exceeded those Of 1909 by about SS00OO,-
900 and that the average ad valorem rate
of duty paid was only 41.49 as compared
with 49, To- under the old law.
value of DutIable Articles.
The value of the principal dutiable
articles, or groups OF articles, imported.
duties collected and the average ad valorem
rates Of duty in 1910, as compared with
1902 follow:
sugar-In 1909, value $685. S79,O2i, duty paid,
$50, S62, 7SS average, 6O.S6 per cent; in 1910,
value $lO1 lS5, los. duty paid, $57024,67s, aver
age, 56.22 per cent.
Wool and Manufactures-In 1909, values,
$52, S07241, duty paid. s3S, 1851, S17, rate 631S'
in 1870 value $7O7S6,eS7, duty paid. Sal, 800 64S
rate 1925.
Cotton Manufactures-In 1909. value $751;
! 800, 662 duty paid, $9S,050 402. rate SAL; in
1910, value s679SS, $50. duty paid, s37.o76, 761.
rate 56.O5.
Fibers and Manufactures-In 1909, value
$50 1856 $50 duty SIS 4SS 161, rate $685. In 1910,
value $751; 44O,741; duty s22, $50, rate 1880
Iron and Steel-In 1909, value s21, $50 $50.
duty $s2l6,O6S, rate 3s; in 1910. value $S7, 54s-
| 2SS, duty $12, 375, 246, rate 1896.
| Silk-In 1909, value $50, 4S6 1867, duty S16lS6-
131, rate $780, in 1870 value 1873, OS3 667, duty
| 81, 675,02l, rate 53.43.
Tobacco-In 1909, value $S1, s17,S7O duty
g. $50 1886, rate 2S1S; in 1910 value $50 1894 4Ol,
duty $7,2S4,344, rate 23.4S.
Liquors-In 1909 value $21, $50, 1863, duty
s5 11S rate 1.6O; in 1910, value $2S, 1885, 1853,
duty $l7,572,335, rate 1854.
Fruits and Muslin 1909 value SIG, sSS sO2,
duty S6,173,136. rate 1886; in 1910, value s2l.-
225.O1O, duty $l7,572 1886, rate 1916.
| Lumber-In 1909, value $40, As, 941, duty
g. 2s6 COS, rate 11.22; in 1910 value $2 76S or,
duty 2,07O,641, rate S,T.
All Other Dutiable Imports-In 1909, value
1858 S25 OO2, duty S74Oo 1856 rate 1924; in 1870
value $2SS, s2s,5O2 duty $7,SO6, 5s4 rate 27,24
| Total Dutable Imports-In 1909, value
s6S2 265 s67 duty 4S77, &c., rate 4Sl5 in 1910,
value $780, S15, 2S7 duty 1926, 23s Cos, rate 4.49.
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