Schedule determining the mode of assessment and the sea octroi for Martinique.

The law of April 6, 1897, provides that raisin wines must, for fiscal purposes, be considered as alcool.

Schedule determining the mode of assessment and the sea octroi for Martinique-Cont'd.

Duty.

Steel:

SEC. 3.-MINERAL SUBSTANCES-Continued.

Iron and steel wire, tinned, coppered, zincked, galvanized, 100 kilograms,

or not.

METALS-continued.

In bars, sheets, or bands, rails..

Fine, for tools

Copper, pure or alloyed with zinc or tin, in bars, sheets, or wire .....do

Lead in crude lumps, pigs, bars, slabs, or sheets....
Tin in crude lumps, pigs, bars, slabs, or sheets
Zinc in crude lumps, pigs, bars, slabs, or sheets....

SEC. 4.-MANUFACTURES.

Sea salt, brine and rock salt.

Salts, oxides, and other products employed as paints (pig.'
ments, prepared or not).
Chemical products not above mentioned, except for fertiliz-
ing purposes.

Articles.

Tallow candles..
Blacking...

CHEMICALS PRODUCTS.

Faience

Porcelain

Perfumery of all kinds..
Soaps, other than perfumed.

Compound medicines
Candles of all kinds...

Yarns:

VARIOUS COMPOUNDS.

COLORS.

Colors for painting buildings, dry, liquid, or in paste (includ- 100 kilograms, │
ing lamp black).
Varnishes of all kinds

EARTHENWARE, AND POTTERY.

GLASS AND CRYSTAL.

Unit.

gross.

.do

.do

YARNS.

Of all kinds, spun with gold or silver.

Cordage and twine of hemp, linen, jute, phormium tenax, abaca, and other vegetable fibers not mentioned, pure or mixed:

Tarred

Other, in the piece:

Single width

Double width1.

.do

.do

..do

100 kilograms,
gross.

.do

Ad valorem.......

gross.
.do

Bottles.
Demijohns, empty or full..
Plate glass..

Thousand
Each

Ad valorem..

Table glass, vitrifications and other glassware of all kinds.. 100 kilograms,

gross.

Other

Tissues of cotton:

Handkerchiefs of all kinds, in the piece or not, with or

Dozen

without embroidery. Trimmings, ribbons, lace, blonde, guipure, tulle, embroid- Ad valorem ... eries, wicks, oilcloth, hosiery, clothing, underclothing, aud all other articles wholly or partly made up or manufactured otherwise than in the piece.

Francs.

1.50

1.00

1.50

9.65

2.15

12.80

3.00

1.50

5.00

10 p. c.

5.00

10.00

25 p. c.
3.00

6 p. c.
8.50

4.00

10.00

1.50

5.50

1.00 .16 8 p. c. 7.00

2.20 p. c.

4 p. c.
4 p. c.
8
p. c.
8.60 p. c.

3 p. c. 4.50

.12

2.20 p. c.

.016
.026

United
States

equiva-
lent.

$0.2895

193

2895

1.867

.416

2.466

.579

.2895

.965

.965

1.93

579

1. 6405

.772 1.93

.2895

1.065

193 .0308

1.35

8685

0232

.0031 .0051

Any width exceeding 1 meter is considered double. When clothing, underclothing, and other articles are wholly or partly made up of different tissues, the duty on the highest taxed tissues shall be levied.

Schedule determining the mode of assessment and the sea octroi for Martinique-Cont'd.

Other, in the piece:

Single width..

Double

SEC. 4.-MANUFACTURES—Continued.

YARNS-continued.

Tissues of linen or hemp (pure or mixed):

Dozen

Handkerchiefs of all kinds, in the piece or not, with or
without embroidery.
Trimmings, ribbons, lace, tulle, guipure, embroideries, Ad valorem......
blonde, oilcloth, hosiery, clothing, underclothing, and
all other articles wholly or partly made up or manu
factured otherwise than in the piece.

Articles.

Tissues of silk or floss silk (pure or mixed):

Foulards..

PAPER, AND MANUFACTURES OF.

School copy books, simply stitched and not in boards.
Writing paper, envelopes, copy books in boards, notebooks,
registers, albums, commercial books.
Cardboard

Trimmings, ribbons, lace, blonde, tulle, hosiery, clothing, and all other articles wholly or partly made up or manufactured otherwise than in the piece.

Other, pure, in the piece....

Tissues mixed with silk, in the piece...
Tissues of vegetable fibers, not mentioned above, and of Ad valorem..
horsehair.

HIDES, SKINS, AND PELTRIES, PREPARED.

Movements for watches, clocks, clock and watch fittings.. Cutlery..... Machines and machinery of all kinds, machine tools, mechanical appliances, steam and other boilers, apparatus for the manufacture of sugar, apparatus for breweries, distilleries, and other of all kinds, detached pieces and parts, tools, agricultural implements, hardware, and, generally, all manufactures of metals enumerated in the customs tariff and not specially mentioned in the present tariff of sea octroi, railway sleepers excepted. Railway sleepers of iron or steel...

ARMS, POWDER, AND AMMUNITION.

Arms of commerce:
Shotguns or carbines
Pistols or revolvers.

Other (including side arms)..
Gunpowder other than for warlike purposes, percussion

caps, fireworks.

Meter .do

..do

Ad valorem

Meter
.do

Unit.

Each

Ad valorem..

Meter
...do

100 kilograms, net.
.....do

100 kilograms,
gross.

.do

.do

Roll of 8 meters
Pack

Ad valorem.

Pair

Kilograms..
..do

Each

...do
.do
One-fourth the du-
ty on watches.
Ad valorem..

100 kilograms,
gross.

do

Each
..do

Ad valorem.
...do

Any width exceeding 1 meter is considered double. When clothing, underclothing, and other arti cles are wholly or partly made up of different tissues, the duty on the highest taxed tissue shall be levied.

Children's playing cards are assimilated to Toys, games, etc.

Schedule determining the mode of assessment and the sea octroi for Martinique-Cont'd.

1 Children's musical instruments are assimilated to Toys, games, etc.

2Except when the component materials can be easily separated, or when such articles are merely accessories.

HAITI.

[Corrected to June 1, 1899.]

The import duties collected in the custom-houses of Haiti may be paid in foreign money. An additional duty of 10 per cent on the import and tonnage duties is collected on merchandise and vessels of countries which have no consuls or consular agents in the Republic. But this latter duty will not be collected on the merchan. dise and vessels of nations which officially recognize the Government.

Charges for weighing are imposed on all imported articles, whatever their designation, which are sold by the pound, quintal, or ton. This charge is about 50 cents per 1,000 pounds.

Weighing charges are also imposed upon all provisions, dyewoods, and other products exported from the country, and sold by weight, at the rate of 50 cents per 1,000 pounds.

MONEY, Weights, and Measures.

Money. The monetary unit of Haiti is the gourde, which is divided into 100 cents; value, 964 cents American currency.

Weights.-Quintal equals 100 pounds (about).

Measures.-The aune (yard mentioned in the tariff) equals 46.77 inches. The pied (foot mentioned in the tariff) equals 12.78 inches, and is subdivided into 12 pouces (inch mentioned in the tariff) or 144 lignes (lines). The toise equals 6 pieds, and the pas equals 3 pieds. The gallon is the old English wine gallon.

Import duties.1

No.

1 Absinthe:

293

4

Saddlebows or trees. (See Pack saddles and trees, No. 120.)
6 Hooks and eyes, all qualities, small boxes of 36 to 42 pairs.
Ornaments, cotton (dutiable as trimmings for chemises, No. 938).
Needles:

Shoulder knots:

Fine gold.

Fine silver

Imitation gold or silver
Silk

Wool, linen, or cotton. 14 Garlic, in strings or loose..

Stills:

19

29

30

32

33

34

36

37

38

39

40

Common bottles

Large bottles, or liters

Acid:

Fine sewing.

Sail

Articles.

Coin.

Burnt or in ingots..

Imitation, in leaves.

100 leaves.

Tariff increase in Haiti.-Vice-Consul-General Terres writes from Port au Prince, March 6, 1899, that according to a decree published on February 25, a surtax of 25 per cent is established on all importations from and after March 14, 1899, the proceeds to be applied to the gradual withdrawal of the paper money now in circulation in the Republic.

This increase has been added to the duties throughout the schedules.-Note by the Bureau of Foreign Commerce.