Alphabetical list of the principal goods enumerated in the tariff-Cont'd. The following tariff went into effect on September 1, 1899: Foreign merchandise entered through the custom-houses of the Republic is divided into nine classes, as follows: Duties specified in this tariff are to be collected on the gross weight. FIRST CLASS. [2 centavos (0.00386 of a cent) per kilogram (2.2046 pounds).] 1. Mineral waters, trisulphite of lime. 2. Live animals, except leeches. 3. Iron bases or bedplates, bottoms and boilers, grates, drums, sets of machinery for sugar mills, and the shafts and forms for same; native iron ore, as well as old scrap iron suitable for foundry purposes. 4. Plows, plowshares, and plow points, garden hoes, grubbing hoes, pruning hooks, weed hooks, implements for planting corn or coffee, axes, shovels, pickaxes, pruning hooks, with or without wooden handles, and machetes for clearing or brambling. 5. Articles imported by order of the Government. 6. Apparatus and machinery for gas lighting and for manufacturing gas; also machinery used in the incubation of eggs, and for generating steam from petroleum residue; mineral coal, and coal used in the manufacture of electric light. 7. Fishhooks, wire for fences, barbed, or in the form shown in the design comprised in the resolution of June 13, 1894, and also the clips or staples used for fastening said wire. 8. Fire engines. 9. Carriages; utensils and materials intended exclusively for railroads. 10. Wood ashes, and grape skins for fertilizer. 11. Roman cement (Portland). 12. Effects which the public ministers and the diplomatic agents of the Republic bring with them for their own use on their return to Venezuela. 13. Baggage, personal effects, and used furniture of those Venezuelans who may have resided for more than two years in Europe or in the United States and who desire to establish themselves again in Venezuela; provided always that they comply with the provisions of article 178, Law XVI, of the hacienda code. Effects of domiciled foreigners; provided always that for this end the same conditions apply to them as to Venezuelans. 14. Baggage for the use of travelers, excluding effects not used, and furniture, which will pay duty according to their respective classes. Unused articles brought in baggage will pay an additional duty of 20 per cent. 15. Spheres, celestial or terrestrial globes, hydrographic and navigation charts, maps of all kinds, and topographical plans of mines, lithographed or printed. 16. Extract of rennet. 17. Guano; ice when imported through those ports where there are no plants established with Government authority for manufacturing it. 18. Eggs. 19. Books printed in sheets, or in rough form, which treat of science, arts, or trade; catalogues, periodicals, and samples of writing for primary schools. 20. Wood prepared for naval construction, and the trunks or round pieces of pine or pitch pine for masts; also squared pitch pine of more than 0.25 meter (9.89 inches) in thickness; oak or other ordinary woods, not specified, suitable for sawing into boards, beams, or any other form. 21. Printing machines and the articles used in printing, such as type, spaces, prepared ink; white paper for printing without glue or gum; also the pulp mixture for making the "matrix;" also the composition metal of lead and aluminum used in printing after the system of stereotyping. 22. Machines for agricultural purposes and for working mines; looms, sawmills; machines for foundries, not specified elsewhere; machines for the arts and trades, when imported by the artisans themselves, but they must state the use to which they are to be applied, and obtain the order from the Government for free entry. 23. Machines and apparatus for electric telegraphing-with the consent of the Government. 21. Steam motors of all kinds and windmills, with all their accessories-with the consent of the Government. 25. Samples of cloth in small pieces, whose weight does not exceed 25 kilograms (55 pounds); samples of wall paper, not exceeding 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) in length; also samples of other articles; provided always that, on account of the size and other circumstances, they can not be offered for sale. 26. Artistic objects for use as monuments-with the consent of the Government. 27. Platinum, or white gold; unmanufactured gold or silver; also the gold in coined money. 28. Green plants of all kinds; collections of dried plants, not medicinal; seeds for planting; sprout potatoes suitable only for seed, which in the judgment of the Executive are imported for this purpose. 29. Productions of Colombia which come in through the frontiers; always provided that the products of Venezuela shall have the same exemption in Colombia. 30. Bridges, with their chains, flooring, and other accessories, when intended for the use of the public or for agricultural enterprises; otherwise the materials of which they are composed will pay the duty of their respective classes. 31. Clocks for public use, when imported by the National Government. 32. Springs, axles, tires, and parts for carts or coaches which are to be built in the country. 32a. Trisulphite of lime; mineral used in manufacture of acetylene. 33. The objects in which free articles come, such as trunks, carpetbags, portfolios, woolen or cloth blankets, that do not lower the current price of these articles, will be weighed separately and pay the duty belonging to each. SECOND CLASS. [12] centavos (2.4 cents) per kilogram (2.2046 pounds).] 34. Acid, sulphuric and liquid carbonic acid gas. 35. Cakes of bran and of the residue of linseed for food for animals. 36. Unmanufactured galvanized iron wire. 37. Red ocher, potter's clay, ocher, Spanish white, clay, caput mortuum, and all kinds of earth used for buildings. 38. Mineral or vegetable pitch, asphalt, crude petroleum, and bitumens of all kinds, except for shoe blacking. 39. Bands or iron or wooden hoops for barrels, hogsheads, and sieves. 40. Rice in grain. 41. Oats. 42. Iron bars (tools, crowbars, etc.). 43. Common glass bottles, black or ordinary white color, for bottling liquors; jugs or empty demijohns, and the quadrangular flasks of the same glass in which gin usually is bottled.1 44. Hydraulic pumps with their respective tubes, valves, and other accessories. 45. Small boats and launches, put together or in pieces, and their ores, sails, and anchors. 46. Rosin or pitch. 47. Hydraulic lime, common lime, and any other similar material used for building purposes not included in other classes. 48. Fleshy part of a hide, waste or claws of a skin, and the dried entrails of sheep used in sausage factoriess. 49. Hemp or tow, undressed or twisted, for calking; tow and cotton waste for cleaning machinery. 50. Iron or lead pipes for sewers and the elbows and connections for said tubes. 51. Pasteboard. 52. Impermeable pasteboard for roofing houses and other purposes. 53. Carts and drays. 54. Handcarts. 55. Barley in the husk. 56. Rye or wheat, in grain. 57. Coaches, chaises, pony carts, omnibuses, phaætons, and every style of carriage not included in other classes. 58. Oak bark and bark of other trees used for tanning. 59. Barley flour, pea flour, or any other kind not specified under other classes. 60. Ice when imported through ports where there are plants with Government authority for manufacturing it. 61. Iron, round or squared, in sheets or plates, laminated, or in any other crude form. 62. Bricks for polishing cutlery. 63. Bricks and slabs or tiles of baked clay, of marble, of jasper, of wood, and of any other material, for flooring or pavements, always provided they do not exceed 60 centimeters (23.6 inches) earth and slate tiling, and the ordinary crude rock of any class. 64. Wood and vegetable coal in pieces. 65. Ordinary wooden boards, beams, and scantlings of pitch pine undressed, less than 25 meters (9.8 inches) in thickness, and those of pine not elsewhere specified, whatever be the dimensions. 66. Maize (corn) in grain. 67. Apples, grapes, pears, and any other kind of fresh fruit, including in this class cocoanuts, whether they are fresh or not. 68. Machines, tanks of galvanized iron, and apparatus not specified in first class, whose total weight exceeds 1,000 kilograms (2,204.46 pounds); refrigerators for keeping ice. 69. Music, written. 70. Manioc. 71. Straw or dried grass, such as hay and other, for food for animals, not medicinal. 72. Galipot (white resin); pitch and rosin (ordinary). 73. Campeachy, lignum-vitæ, lima, fustic, sandal, and other similar woods, in shavings. 74. Paper for cigarettes. 75. Pianos, including dumb pianos for mechanical exercises, without accessories. Common or ordinary black or clear glass bottles, and the flasks in which Hollands or gin ordinarily come, 2 centavos per kilogram. |