THE CUSTOMS TARIFF.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 28 August 1880, Page 4

THE CUSTOMS TARIFF.

pFBOM OUB OWN 00BBB8P0NDBOT.J WELIiINGTOIN, August 26. The Customs Tariff Bill is just circulated. The object of the Bill is mainly te carry out the recommendations of the Colonial Industries Commission. It provides for a duty of eighteen pence per gallon on imported ale, beer, etc., in bottle, and fifteen pence on the same in bulk. The duty on condensed beer is to be so assessed as to be equivalent to the above. The duty on spirits and spirituous compounds is to be charged aocording to the reputed quantity contained in casks, etc. The following duties are repealed and the articles admitted free:—Gunny bags, shoemakers' and saddlers' sewing maohine thread and silk and : twist, bookbinders' leather, thread, head bands, webbing, and papers, tacketing gut, marbling colours, marble paper, and blue paste for ruling ink, sheaves for blocks, sailmakers' sewing and roping twine, and twine for fishing nets, hickory spokes, brass tubing and stamped work in rough for gasaliers and brackets. The importation of playing cards is prohibited, unlesß to suoh ports as approved by the Governor. Flaying cards are to be stamped on the duty being paid thereon, and any person who sells, uses, or has possession of any paok of cards not so stamped or marked shall forfeit £SO, Making cr using counterfeit stamps or marks for stamping duty paid cards is to be treated as a felony, and puiishable with seven years' penal servitude. The fair market value of goods in ordinary commeros acceptable at the usual credit, and not necessarily the cash value, is to be deemed the fair market value for duty ad valorem. No discount for cash is to be allowed, unless for goods purchasable for cash. Certificates are to be produced of the due landing of goods. Bonded warehouses may be appointed at ports which are not warehouse purts. full particulars of the quantity and value of goods to be stated in the export entries under a penalty of £SO.