Tariff Information, 1921: Hearings on General Tariff Revision Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, [Sixty-Sixth Congress, Third Session], Part 5Includes discussion of proposals to change basis of tariff rates from foreign valuation of commodities to American valuation of commodities. |
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35 per cent abroad American manufacturers American market amount asbestos average beads bill blasting caps brief brushes buttons calcium carbide Canada Canadian carbide catgut cement cent ad valorem cent duty cents a pound cents per pound CHAIRMAN coal cobalt cobalt oxide committee compete competition consumer cork cost of production doll domestic dozen dutiable duty on hides Europe exchange export fact factories facturers ferromanganese fish foreign countries free list freight GARNER gentlemen Germany grade gross hair press cloth hats HAWLEY hides human hair imported increased Japan labor cost lace LAVINO LONGWORTH machines manganese manu match OLDFIELD ossein paragraph pearl pencil plants Portland cement present tariff Prewar protection quantities rate of duty raw material represent revenue Schedule sell shoes short tons skins soap supply tariff act to-day trade TREADWAY Underwood tariff United vegetable ivory wages watch York City
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Page 3099 - ... articles valued above 20 cents per dozen pieces designed to be worn on apparel or carried on or about or attached to the person...
Page 3373 - Including articles finished or unfinished, of flax, hemp, ramie, or other vegetable fiber, except cotton, or of which these substances or any of them is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad valorem.
Page 3329 - Curtains, table covers, and all articles manufactured of cotton chenille, or of which cotton chenille is the component material of chief value, tapestries, and other Jacquard figured upholstery goods, weighing over six ounces per square yard, composed wholly or in chief value of cotton or other vegetable fiber; any of the foregoing, in the piece or otherwise, fifty per centum ad valorem.
Page 3494 - ... incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school...
Page 3144 - In the gum or purified, forty per centum ad valorem; on lastings, mohair cloth, silk twist, or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made In patterns of such size, shape, or form, or cut in such manner, as to be fit for buttons exclusively...
Page 3584 - Ichthyol, juglandium, palm, palm-kernel, perilla, soya-bean, and olive oil rendered unfit for use as food or for any but mechanical or manufacturing purposes, by such means as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury and under regulations to be prescribed by him...
Page 3460 - ... shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation in the manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.
Page 3143 - Button forms of lastings, mohair or silk cloth, or other manufactures of cloth, woven or made in patterns of such size, shape, or form as to be fit for buttons exclusively, and not exceeding eight inches in any one dimension, 10 per centum ad valorem.
Page 3460 - SEC. 6. That any person who willfully hoards any necessaries shall upon conviction thereof be fined not exceeding $5,000 or be imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.
Page 3256 - ... artificial or ornamental feathers, fruits, grains, leaves, flowers, and stems or parts thereof, of whatever material composed...