Paragraph, act of 1922. SCHEDULE 1.—CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS—Continued. Classification. Rates of duty. Act of 1922. Act of 1909. Act of 1913. 39 See footnote 39 on p.5. 41 All other products or preparations of coal tar, not colors or dyes and not medicinal, n. s. p. f. 42 All other products or preparations of coal tar, not colors or dyes, n. s. p. f. 46 See footnote 46 on p. 8. 50 Valued at 20 cents or less per pound. 51 Valued above 20 cents per pound. 52 All explosive substances, n. s. p. f., used for mining, blasting, and artillery purposes. 53 From alizarin. 54 Indigo extracts or pastes. 55 Indigo carmined. 56 Essential and distilled oils, n. s. p. f. 57 All chemical mixtures, n. s. p. f. ACT OF 1916. TITLE V.-DYESTUFFS. SEC. 500. That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, except as otherwise specially provided for in this title, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the articles named in this section when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions, except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila, the rates of duties which are prescribed in this title, namely: Group II. * ** benzoic acid, ** * salicylic acid * ** 15 per centum ad valorem and 2 cents per pound. Group III. All colors, dyes, or stains, whether soluble or not in water, color acids, color bases, color lakes, photographic chemicals, medicinals, flavors, synthetic phenolic resin, or explosives, not otherwise specially provided for in this title, when obtained, derived, or manufactured in whole or in part from any of the products provided for in Groups I and II, natural alizarin and indigo, and colors, dyes, or color lakes obtained, derived, or manufactured therefrom, thirty per centum ad valorem. SEC. 501. That on and after the day following the passage of this Act, in addition to the duties provided in section five hundred, there shall be levied, collected, and paid *** upon all articles contained in Group III (except natural and synthetic alizarin, and dyes obtained from alizarin, anthracene, and carbazol; natural and synthetic indigo and all indigoids, whether or not obtained from indigo; and medicinals and flavors), a special duty of 5 cents per pound. b The annual reduction of 20 per cent of the special duty of 5 cents per pound began five years after the passage of the act of Sept. 8, 1916. (T. D. 39093, G. A. 8523.) SCHEDULE 1.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS-Continued. During the period of five years beginning five years after the passage of this Act such special duties shall be annually reduced by twenty per centum of the rate imposed by this section, so that at the end of such period such special duties shall no longer be assessed, levied, or collected; but if, at the expiration of five years from the date of the passage of this Act, the President finds that there is not being manufactured or produced within the United States as much as sixty per centum in value of the domestic consumption of the articles mentioned in Groups * ** III of section five hundred, he shall by proclamation so declare, whereupon the special duties imposed by this section on such articles shall no longer be assessed, levied, or collected. SEC. 502. That paragraphs twenty, twenty-one, * ** and the words "salicylic acid" in paragraph one of Schedule A of section one of an Act entitled "An Act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," approved October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and paragraphs three hundred and ninety-four, *** and five hundred and fourteen, * **of the "free list" of section one of said Act, and so much of said Act or any existing law or parts of law as may be inconsistent with this title, are hereby repealed. ACT OF 1921. TITLE V.-DYES AND CHEMICALS. SEC. 501. (a) That on and after the day following the enactment of this Act, for the period of three months, no sodium nitrite, no dyes or dyestuffs, including crudes and intermediates, no product or products derived directly or indirectly from coal tar (including crudes, intermediates, finished or partly finished products, and mixtures and compounds of such coal-tar products), and no synthetic organic drugs or synthetic organic chemicals, c shall be admitted to entry or delivered from customs custody in the United States or in any of its possessions unless the Secretary determines that such article or a satisfactory substitute therefor is not obtainable in the United States or in any of its possessions in sufficient quantities and on reasonable terms as to quality, price, and delivery, and that such article in the quantity to be admitted is required for consumption by an actual consumer in the United States or in any of its possessions within six months after receipt of the merchandise. (b) Upon the day following the enactment of this Act the War Trade Board Section of the Department of State shall cease to exist; all clerks and employees of such War Trade Board Section shall be transferred to and become clerks and employees of the Treasury Department, and all books, documents, and other records relating to such dye and chemical import control of such War Trade Board Section shall become books, documents, and records of the Treasury Department. All individual licenses issued by such War Trade Board Section prior to the enactment of this Act shall remain in effect during the period of their validity, and the importations under such licenses shall be permitted. All unexpended funds and appropriations for the use and maintenance of such War Trade Board Section shall become funds and appropriations available to be expended by the Secretary in the exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by this section. SEC. 502. That this title may be cited as the "Dye and Chemical Control Act, 1921." Oxide.. Sulphate and linoleate.. All other salts and compounds.. 30 Cellulose esters... Collodion and other liquid solutions of pyroxylin, of other cellulose esters or ethers, or of cellulose. 31 Compounds of pyroxylin, of other In blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or Made into finished or partly fin- 20 cents per lb. 25 cents per lb. 10 cents per lb. 32 Compounds of cellulose, known as 35 per cent.. vulcanized or hard fiber, made wholly or in chief value of cellu lose. Included synthetic organic drugs and chemicals not of coal-tar origin, and natural drugs and chemicals obtained also by synthesis. (T. D. 38799, July 21, 1921.) 58 Chemicals compounds and salts, n, s. p. f. 59 Esters of all kinds, n. s. p. f. 60 Provided, That all such articles (except photographic and moving-picture films), whether or not more specifically provided for elsewhere, shall be dutiable under this paragraph. 6 Manufactures of pulp, n. s. p. f. 20655-23- -2 Paragraph, act of 1922. SCHEDULE 1.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS-Continued. Classification. Rates of duty. Act of 1922. Act of 1909. Act of 1913. 33 Compounds of casein, known as Not made into finished or partly 40 cents per lb. 25 cents per lb..... 20 per cent 62. 15 per cent.62 15 per cent.62 34 Drugs, 63 such as barks, beans, berries, 10 per cent.. 62 All articles manufactured in whole or in part, n. s. p. f. 63 Provided, That the term "drug" wherever used in this act shall include only those substances having therapeutic or medicinal properties and chiefly used for medicinal purposes (act of 1922); And provided further, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph (acts of 1909, 1913, and 1922). 64 Balm of Gilead and salep or salop free. 65 Drugs * * * advanced. 66 Drugs * * * not advanced. 67 Unground. Paragraph, SCHEDULE 1.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS—Continued. act of 1922. 37 Ergot.. 38 Ethers and esters: 68 Diethyl sulphate and dimethyl 25 per cent.. sulphate. Ethyl acetate.. Ethyl chloride. Ethyl ether.. N. s. p.f.72... 39 Extracts, dyeing and tanning: 25 Chestnut... Cutch. Chlorophyll. Divi-divi.. Sumac. Valonia. Wattle. Extracts, decoctions, and preparations of vegetable origin used for dyeing, coloring, staining, tanning, n. s. p. f. Combinations and or .....Free.... 3 cents per lb.... 25 per cent. 15 per cent.. 50 cents per lb.69. 50 cents per lb.69, 15 per cent 78. 15 per cent 73, cent per lb 77. 20 per cent.. cent per lb. 10 cents per lb. Free. cent per lb.74 15 per cent. Free.75 cent per lb.74 Free. cent per lb. Free.75 cent per lb Free. 10 per cent. cent per lb.74 15 per cent 78_ foregoing articles. 40 Flavoring extracts. Fruit esters, oils, and essences. 25 per cent. $1 per lb. Fruit flavors, natural or synthetic... 25 per cent. 25 per cent 78. 20 per cent. All the foregoing not containing alcohol and n. s. p. f. 41 Formaldehyde solution or formalin.. 2 cents per lb... 25 per cent 47. Solid formaldehyde or parafor- 8 cents per lb. 25 per cent 47, 1 cent per lb. 15 per cent.47 maldehyde. Hexamethylenetetramine.... 42 Agar agar: Valued not above 10 cents per Valued above 10 and not above 35 cents per pound. Valued not above 10 cents per Valued above 35 cents per pound.. 25 per cent. Casein glue: 25 per cent..... 15 cents per lb. 20 per cent. Valued above 10 and not above 25 25 per cent.. 1 cent per lb. 15 per cent. 25 Valued above 35 cents per pound. 25 per cent. Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph. 47 Medicinal preparations, n. s. p. f. Provided, That no article containing more than 10 per cent of alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph. (Acts of 1913 and 1922.) But not less than 25 per cent. 70 Esters of all kinds, n. s. p. f. 71 Sulphuric ether. 72 Spirits of nitrous ether, 20 cents per pound, act of 1909. Amyl acetate, 5 cents per pound, and amyl nitrite, 20 per cent, act of 1913. 3 All extracts of vegetable origin suitable for dyeing, coloring, staining, or tanning, not containing alcohol and not medicinal, n. s. p. f. 14 Extracts of vegetable origin suitable for dyeing, coloring, or staining, not containing alcohol and not medicinal, n. s. p.f. 75 Extracts of barks and woods ** *such as are commonly used for tanning, n. s. p. f. 6 Extracts and decoctions of dyewoods, n. s. p. f. "Extracts of bark, such as are commonly used * * 78 Chemical compounds, mixtures, n. s. p. f. * for tanning, n. s. p. f. Paragraph, act of 1922. SCHEDULE 1.-CHEMICALS, OILS, AND PAINTS-Continued. Classification. 42 Edible gelatin: Valued not above 10 cents per pound. Valued above 10 and not above 25 cents per pound. Valued above 10 and not above 35 20 per cent and 7 cents per lb Valued not above 10 cents per pound. 25 per cent.. Valued above 10 and not above 35 cents per pound. 25 per cent. 25 per cent.. 25 per cent. Isinglass and other fish sounds, cleaned, split, or otherwise prepared: 43 44 Valued above 35 cents per pound.. Manufactures, wholly or in chief value of gelatin, glue or glue size. Glycerin: Črude. Refined. Ink, and ink powders, n. s. p. f.. 45 Iodine, resublimed. 46 47 Bromine.. 1 cent per lb.. 2 cents per lb.... 20 per cent. 20 cents per lb.. 10 cents per lb. 10 cents per lb.. 2 cents per lb.. 2 cents per lb.. 48 Licorice, extracts of, in pastes, rolls, 25 per cent.. or other forms. 25 per cent. 25 per cent. 25 per cent. 79 1 cent per lb. 11 cents per lb 1 cent per lb. 20 per cent. 80 20 per cent. 11 cents per lb. 1 cent per lb. 1 cent per lb. 1 cents per lb. 15 per cent.58 15 per cent.58 3 cents per lb. 3 cents per lb. cent per Ib. 79 Manufactures of gelatin, or of which gelatin is the component material of chief value, n. s. p. 1. 80 Lead compounds, n. s. p. f. 81 Magnesia and carbonate of, medicinal. |