Pegs, for musical instruments. Pencils, for carpenters. Pipes or tubes of composition metal, or of lead, copper, brass, iron, or steel, galvanized or not, includ ing the curves, connections, and TS, and other complementary pieces. Cigars.... Cigarettes, including weight of covering, except weight of boxes of Kilogram wood and metal. Liter 1.20 9.00 3.285 Coffee. Flour of wheat.. .036 Oil, linseed, crude or boiled .73 Paper: Oils, pure or unrefined, except pure medicinal oils and oils for perfumery, also oils of gasoline, naphtha, paraflin, and petroleum, or kerosene. .073 .06 Blotting Wrapping.. Pasteboard, ordinary.. .054 Salt: .054 Common, rock, or grain Refined, or half refined 220 pounds. 2.50 .91 Snuff. Kilogram Sugar: do Refined, lump or ground, damp, or dry Impure, concrete, damp or dry. White, granulated or ground, damp or dry, like the Rosa Emilia. Tea Tobacco: 6.50 2873 In barrels.. Dozen 12.00 4.38 Yerba mate .48 .05 Reduced to United States currency in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce. GOODS FREE OF DUTY. Agricultural implements and machinery, also those used in mining, the arts and mechanical industries, except those named which pay a duty. Altars, reliquaries, ornaments, sacred vessels, and other objects destined for divine worship, when imported on account of the communities, monasteries, or churches, in the service of which they are to be employed. Anchors, large and small, of iron and steel. Anchor stocks. Animals, live, except those which pay a specific duty. Axles, tires, and wheels of steel or iron, except axles for carriages. Ballast, patent, with its accessories for ships. Bamboo, entire, and that prepared for making seats of chairs. Books, printed (except those paying 35 per cent), commercial catalogues, reviews, and other periodical publications. Brass. (See Plates.) Cables, wire. Caps, explosive, for mines. Chains of iron or steel, link not more than 40 millimeters circumference. Charts, geographical, celestial or typographical plans, models, designs, and copies. Coal. hard, of all kinds. Compasses for binnacles. Copper, in sheets. Copra. Cringles. Coins, except fractional coins of the country of less than 835 millesimos. Copy books, for teaching writing, drawing, and all branches of science and art. Dyes. (See Ingredients and sticks.) Earth for smelting coins. Effects for diplomatic agents and their secretaries, accredited to the Government of Chile, when such effects arrive for the use and consumption of the functionaries referred to, to an amount not exceeding in the first year $20,000 current money, and $4,000 in the same money in each subsequent year, it being understood that the nations represented in the country observe the same reciprocity, and that the ministers and agents referred to do not also engage in business. Effects for the use and consumption of diplomatic agents and their secretaries to an amount not exceeding a year's salary of said functionaries, with the understanding that said effects be entered within the four months preceding or the four months following their return to the Republic. Effects which constitute exclusively the armament of the nation; such as guns and their equipments, torpedoes rifles, swords, hatchets, revolvers, projectiles, and appurtenances for the objects named and for the ships of the Navy, it being understood that there are not included the effects which the Government or station may bring to transfer to other parties nor any other class of objects which may be only additional to the national armaments, such as tents, knapsacks, saddles, cavalry outfits, clothing, articles for the hospital and ambulance service, etc. Emery paper or cloth. Fire engines and all of their accessories. Firewood. Hoops, of iron, steel, or wood. Horns, for ships. Ingredients and special dyes for the manufacture of cloth and paper. Ink, for printers' and lithographers' use. Instruments of surgery, physics, mathematics, and other sciences. Instruments for telephones, telegraphs, insulators, posts of iron or steel, and all other special utensils for telegraphs and telephones, except the wooden crosstrees for the posts. Iron sulphate, commercial. Iron or steel: In plates, plain, unpainted, not galvanized. Not manufactured, in ingots and bars of every form. For railroad tracks, whether by steam, tramways, electrical, portable, or aerial, except those pay. ing 15 per cent. Jute, not manufactured. Lead, in leaf, ingots, or plates. Leeches. Logs or log lines. Luggage, imported for its owners, understood to be only the clothing, boots and shoes, books, jewels, and articles for the toilet; all for the use of the owner, in a quantity proportioned to his class and circumstances; but not the table service, nor furniture, even though used, nor entire pieces of any goods. Machinery, pieces of. Machines, apparatus, and special accessories for the manufacture of gas (carb. byd.) and for electrie light, except lamps of all kinds. Machines and apparatus. Manila for cordage. Manila and jute, not manufactured. Maps and charts. Masts and yards. Mathematics. (See Instruments.) Minerals. Molds for making ingots, etc., for printing offices. Nails, copper or composition metal, for sheathing vessels and nailing their planks. Plates of copper, brass, zinc, and composite metals for sheathing vessels. Raw material for manufacture of cordage and bags, whether of hemp, manila, or jute. Rigging, old. Rivets. Sails, old. Samples of merchandise, duties on which would exceed $2. Sandpaper. Seeds: Staves, not manufactured. Steel. (See Iron.) Steering compasses. Sticks or wood for dyes, in their natural form, in chips, or sawdust, or bruised. Stocks for anchors. Surgery. (See Instruments.) Tar, vegetable. Tarpaulin nails, short, round headed. Telephones and telegraphs. (See Instruments.) Thread, for looms of cotton, jute, hemp, linen, or wool, and those which contain two or more of these COLOMBIA. The money unit is the silver pesos of 100 centavos. Its fluctuations in value would render its reduction into United States currency of no permanent account. IMPORT TARIFF. The classes of the tariff, according to the duties therein applicable to goods, are— Second class.-Goods paying 1 centavo per kilogram. Foreign products shall, on their entry on national territory and per kilogram, be subject to the duties established below. (Law 36 of 1886.) The following reductions shall be made from these duties: Forty per cent in the custom-houses of Aruca and Meta. (Law 53 of 1884 and decree 397 of 1886.) Twenty per cent in the custom-house of Buenaventura. Fifty-five per cent for unembroidered cotton tissues and 30 per cent for other goods in the custom-house of Tumaco. (Laws 10 and 129 of 1888.) Every payment in the custom-house shall be subject to a surtax of 25 per cent. Said amount shall be distributed between the States, with the exception of the State of Panama. (Laws 88 of 1886, 48 of 1887, and 10 and 129 of 1888.) No reductions shall be made nor surtaxes levied on the increases stipulated in decree 453 of 1893 (p. 14). [Duties are levied per kilogram (2.2046 pounds) unless where otherwise specified.] No. Articles. COMESTIBLES AND CONDIMENTS. Duty. 1 Sweet potatoes or yams, potatoes, onions, maize, rice, chick-peas, lentils, beans, and all other kinds of vegetables, pot herbs, and fruits, fresh 1. 2 Garlic 3 Flour, including sago, arrowroot, tapioca, maizena, and other similar products. 4 Wheat flour prepared for vermicelli and other similar alimentary pastes, imported for the manufacture of said products (decree 537, of 1888, Diario Oficial 7430) * 5 Salt codfish and meat in brine and, in general, fish and meat not prepared. 6 Sugar...... 7 Hazelnuts, nuts and almonds, in the shell, and, in general, all alimentary products not prepared and not elsewhere mentioned 8 Vermicelli and other pastes..... 9 Alimentary products, prepared, such as bologna sausages, salmon, hams, sweetmeats, confectionery, preserved and dried fruits, etc., fruits preserved in vinegar, and condiments of all kinds not specially mentioned 10 Olives, in barrels. 11 Tea... 12 Cinnamon. 13 Saffron1. 14 Aniseed 3 15 Ice 3 16 Salt. BEVERAGES. 17 Beer and other fermented beverages... Pesos. 0.01 .05 .05 .01 .05 .05 .10 .10 .20 .10 .70 .30 1.65 .20 .01 18 Barley must and other materials, fermented or not, liquid or solid, for the manufacture of beer and condensed beer............... 05 .02 'Law No. 160, of December 28, 1896, increases the duty on all goods included in classes 2 to 13, both inclusive, 24 per cent. Repealed. (See 1st supplement.) Law No. 160, of December 28, 1896, increases by 50 per cent the duties on articles 14 and 15. Red, common, in casks, barrels, or demijohns.. Red, of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Catalonia, and pharmaceutical wine of San Rafael, in White, sweet and dry, in casks or barrels.. 20 Spirituous beverages, such as brandy, rum, geneva, whisky, rosolis, etc., and all condensed liquids for the manufacture of these beverages.. Linseed oil for preparing paint Black, for writing.. Colored, for writing LIQUIDS, OTHER. Printing, for bookbinders and lithographers (liquid or solid). 24 Liquids of all kinds, with the exception of perfumery and liquids specially mentioned.. COTTON. 25 Cotton manufactured into unbleached tissues, without white or colored parts, not figured and without needlework .40 26 Cotton, fulled (en fulas) blue; and tissues, white, or unbleached with white parts, plain. neither dyed or figured, without needlework or embroidery, such as those known as | bogotanus, calicos, hencillos, madapolams, bramantes, etc....... 27 28 29 Drills and other tissues, white or colored, not otherwise mentioned.. .70 Handkerchiefs, with or without common embroidery; common printed tissues and cotton tissues in the piece for their manufacture.. 50 Stockings and other kinds of hosiery, such as undershirts, drawers, and gloves; mus. lins, lawns, and other transparent tissues; damasks, table covers, and hammocks: ready-made clothing, without embroidery, lace, or other ornamentation composed of ¦ materials subject to higher duties.. All kinds of tissues, embroidered or with network, and imitations thereof, including: lace, insertions, etc., and the same articles in ready-made clothing not otherwise mentioned.. 33 Thread: White 34 Fringes, galloons, cords, tapes, tassels, and other similar articles Unembroidered cotton tissues imported through the custom-house of Tumaco shall enjoy a reduction of 25 per cent in addition to the general reduction granted to all goods imported through the port of Tumaco, as stipulated in the preliminary notes to the tariff. (Law 129 of 1888.) HEMP AND FLAX. 37 38 Sacks or bags, empty, of coarse cloth, tarred or not, with or without waterproof paper, 39 Common unbleached tissues, such as cretonne (crehuelas), sail and tent canvas, domesties, with the exception of drills. 40 41 .60 42 43 44 Cretonnes, white or striped, common. Fine unbleached tissues, with the exception of drills and other tissues mentioned in the Common cloth prepared or varnished for floors; common oilcloth for carriages, not includ ing that used for table covers.. .06 .20 |