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UNITED STATES

COMPILED STATUTES

ANNOTATED
1916

VOLUME 6

6 U.S.COMP.'16

(6175)*

DUTIES UPON IMPORTS

(R. S. §§ 2491-2516. Superseded and repealed.)

This Title, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, included sections 2491-2518thereof, of which sections 2503, 2504, contained the schedules of articles sub ject to duty and the rates of duty thereon, then in force, with a proviso annexed to section 2503, for special rates of duty on certain specified classes of goods; section 2504 contained the free list, of articles exempt from duty; and the other sections contained various particular provisions relating to imports and duties thereon. Said rates of duty on certain articles were altered and additional articles were included in the free list, by Act Feb. 8, 1875, c. 36, §§ 1-10, 18 Stat. 307; and further alterations were made, and said proviso to R. S. § 2503, was repealed, by Act March 3, 1875, c. 127, §§ 3-6, 18 Stat. 340. R. S. § 2501, was also repealed by Act May 4, 1882, c. 120, 22 Stat. 58, and Act Dec. 23, 1882, c. 6, 22 Stat. 398; and R. S. § 2506, was repealed, on the termination of articles 18-25, 30, of the treaty with Great Britain of May 8, 1871, pursuant to the Joint Resolution of March 3, 1883, No. 22, 22 Stat. 641. A substitute for this entire Title was enacted by section 6 of Act March 3, 1883, c. 121, 22 Stat. 488, 489, entitled "An act to reduce internal-revenue taxation, and for other purposes." Said substitute was in the form of new sections of the Revised Statutes, numbered 2491-2513, arranged in different order, but covering the subjects of most of the original sections then in force. New tariff schedules and free list, substitutes for the original R. S. §§ 2503, 2504, were contained in the new sections 2502, 2503. Further sections of said act, Act March 3, 1883, c. 121, §§ 7-13, 22 Stat. 523, made other amendments and provisions relating to rates of duties and collection thereof.

All such previous provisions relating to the subject of this Title were superseded by the provisions prescribing the articles subject to duty, and the rates of duty thereon, of the McKinley Tariff Act of Oct. 1, 1890, c. 1244, §§ 1-25, 26 Stat. 567. These, in like manner, were superseded by the Wilson Tariff Act of Aug. 27, 1894, c. 349, 28 Stat. 509, which was superseded by the Dingley Tariff Act of July 24, 1897, c. 11, which, again, was superseded by the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of Aug. 5, 1909, c. 6, 36 Stat. 11, and that was superseded by the Underwood Tariff Act of Oct. 3, 1913, c. 16, §§ 1, 4, 38 Stat. 114.

This Title, as enacted in the Revised Statutes, was not divided into chapters. For convenience of arrangement it is here divided into two chapters: Chapter A, "Tariff Schedules," containing the provisions of sections 1 and 4 of said Underwood Tariff Act of 1913, as amended, with the provisions of other acts remaining in force relating thereto; and Chapter B, "The Tariff Commission," containing the provisions of Act Sept. 8, 1916, c. 463, creating and relating to the Tariff Commission.

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es equal to internal-revenue taxes on articles coming info United States from Philippine Islands, and into fhilippine Islands from United States; internal. revenues collected in Philippine Islands to accrue to government thereof; repeal of provision authorizing export du*ties.

5295. Exemption of articles going into Porto Rico from United States from internal-revenue taxes. 5296. Countervailing duty on articles on which bounty on exportation was paid.

5297. Articles to be marked to indicate country of origin; packages, to indicate country of origin and quantity of contents.

5298. Fraudulent violation of provisions relating to marking, etc., articles or packages, or defacing, etc., marks, etc.; punishment.

5299. Importation of obscene books, etc., or other articles, or of lottery tickets, etc., prohibited; seizure and forfeiture.

5300. Aiding, etc., by officer, etc., in

violation of provisions prohibiting importation, etc., of obscene publications, etc., or other articles, a misdemeanor; punishment.

5301. Proceedings for seizure, etc., of articles mentioned in two preceding subsections, for violation thereof.

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5302. Importation of neat cattle and hides thereof prohibited; pension of prohibition, in part, authorized.

5303. Violation of provisions of preceding subsection, punishable.

5304. Importation of goods manufactured by convict labor prohibited.

5305. Discriminating duty on goods imported in foreign vessels. 5306. Importation only in vessels of United States or of country of origin of goods.

5307. Restriction of preceding subsec

tion to vessels, or goods, etc., imported in vessels, of foreign nations maintaining similar regulation.

5308. Admission, without payment of duty, under bond for exportation, of certain articles for purposes or uses specified, not for sale.

5309. Importation in bond of materials for construction of naval vessels or certain other vessels, and of materials for building their machinery, and articles for their outfit and equipment; use thereof free of duty. 5310. Withdrawal from bond, free of duty, of articles for repair of naval vessels or certain other vessels.

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5311. Discount on duties on goods, etc., imported in vessels registered under laws of United States. 5312. Admission free of duty of merchandise from vessels sunk and abandoned.

5313. Duty on articles reimported after exportation free of internal revenue tax.

5314. Duties imposed by act applicable to goods, etc., previously im ported but not entered, or entered without payment of duty and under bond.

5315. President to ascertain amount of imports and exports of articles enumerated in section I of act, and cause estimate to be made of amount of domestic production and consumption thereof, and advise Congress when imports amount to less than five per centum of domestic consumption.

5316. Repeal of Act Aug. 5, 1909, c. 6, §§ 1-42, and of all inconsistent acts and parts of acts; limitations on operation of act and on effect of repeals of other acts thereby.

5317. Effect of invalidity of part of act on remainder thereof. 5318. Time of taking effect of act. 5319. Suspension of importation

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products from countries making unjust discriminations. 5320. Grain brought from Canada by farmers to be ground not subject to duty.

5321. Return free of duty of articles or live-stock exported for exhibition.

5322. Return free of duty of animals taken abroad for exhibition.

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5323. Laws affecting imports of articles, etc., and entry of persons into United States from foreign countries to apply to articles, etc., and persons coming from Canal Zone, Isthmus of Pan

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5324. Reduction of duties on products of Cuba authorized; limitation of reduction of duties on sugar; construction of act as to origin of acts changing customs duties.

5325. No additional fees or charges on products of Cuba; equal treatment of imports by both countries.

5326. Duties on specified imports from Canada, when reciprocal rates are imposed by Canada on specified imports from United States, and exemption from duty of specified articles imported from Canada, when specified articles from United States are admitted into Canada free of duty.

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