Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Sixtieth Congress, Volumes 18-21U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - Tariff |
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50 per cent abroad ALLEN American manufacturers amount average BOUTELL braids bristles brushes CALDERHEAD cattle cent ad valorem cent duty cents a pound cents per pound CHAIRMAN cheaper CLARK COBB COCKRAN Company competition consumer corks DALZELL difference Dingley Dingley Act Dingley tariff duty on hides England Ensign-Bickford Company EVELAND export fact factories facturers figures foreign free list gentlemen give gloves grades GRIGGS hats HILL imported inch increase industry jobber lead leather LITTAUER LYON machinery manu matter mica November 25 ORTON packers paid paragraph pence per dozen pig iron present tariff profit protection question RANDELL rate of duty raw material reduced represent respectfully retail revenue schedule sell SERENO E SHERRILL short tons sold SPENCER statement steel tanners tion to-day tons trade UNDERWOOD United VANDERHOEF VOGEL wages Wales WILLIAMS WOODHOUSE York York City
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Page 2510 - That in case of residents of the United States returning from abroad, all wearing apparel and other personal effects taken by them out of the United States to foreign countries shall be admitted free of duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being established, under appropriate rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but no more than one hundred dollars in value of articles purchased abroad by such residents of the United States shall be admitted...
Page 2709 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries.
Page 2508 - Wearing apparel, articles of personal adornment, toilet articles, and similar personal effects of persons arriving in the United States...
Page 2594 - Works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought by professional artists, lecturers, or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them temporarily for exhibition and in illustration, promotion, and encouragement of art, science, or industry in the United States...
Page 2594 - Treasury shall prescribe: but bonds shall be given for the payment to the United States of such duties as may be imposed by law upon any and all such articles as shall not be exported within six months after such importation: Provided.
Page 2674 - ... Books, maps, music, engravings, photographs, etchings, lithographic prints and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the use and by order of any society or institution 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, or seminary of learning in the United States...
Page 2487 - I do not know that I am in a position to answer that question, Mr.
Page 2735 - ... twenty per centum ad valorem ; hats, bonnets, and hoods, composed of straw, chip, grass, palm leaf, willow, osier, or rattan, whether wholly or partly manufactured, but not trimmed, thirty-five per centum ad valorem ; if trimmed, fifty per centum ad valorem. But the terms " grass " and " straw " shall be understood to mean these substances in their natural form and structure, and not the separated fiber thereof.
Page 2759 - Marble, breccia, onyx, alabaster, and jet, wholly or partly manufactured into monuments, benches, vases, and other articles, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value...
Page 2736 - Japanese braids have been the most popular for the last two or three years, and it is only a question of a short time when the Japanese and Chinese will take up the dyeing and bleaching of braids which they produce themselves.