THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 961, 5 June 1883, Page 2

THE NEW AMERICAN TARIFF.

The following is that portion of the new American tariff on wool which is of most interest to colonists:—

•All wools, hair of the alpaca, goat, and other animals, shall be divided, for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged thereon, into the three following classes : Class i, clothing wools—that is to say, merino, raestiza, raets, or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, immediate or remote, down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been hitherto usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools not hereinafter described or designated in classes two and three.

Class 2, combing wools—That is to say Leicester, Cots wold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long wools, or other like combing wools of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used, and also all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals.

Class 3, carpet wools and other similar wools—Such as Donskof, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere. The duty on wools'of the first-class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of all classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. The duty upon wool of the sheep, or hair of the alpaca, goat and other like animals, which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, as now and heretofore practised, or which shall be changed in its character or dondition, for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or .any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject. Wools of the first class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port,. shall be 30 cents or less per lb, 10 cents per lb ; wools of the same class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such ports, shall e xceed 30 cents per lb, 12 cents per lb. Wools of the second class, and all hair of the alpaca, goat, and other like animals, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall be 30 cents or less per lb, 10 cents per lb ; wools of the same class the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall exceed 30 cents per lb, 12 cents per lb. Wool of the third class, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port, shall be 12 cents or less per lb, 2% cents per lb; wools of the same class, the value whereof, at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in such port shall exceed 18 cents per lb, 5 cents per lb. Wools on the skin, the same rates as other wools, the quantity and value to be ascertained under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

Woollen rags, shoddy, mungo, waste, and flocks, 10 cents per lb.