Industrial Cuba: Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities Presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and LabourPorter, Robert P. (Robert Percival)
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Industrial Cuba: Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities Presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and Labour
Porter, Robert P. (Robert Percival)
Cuba -- Description and travel; Cuba -- Economic conditions
360. Stone, unwrought, for paving purposes.
361. Ploughs, hoes, hatchets, machetes, cane knives, etc., for
agricultural purposes, and other agricultural implements not
machinery.
362. Quinine, sulphate and bisulphate of, and all alkaloids or
salts of cinchona bark.
363. Hemp, flax, and ramie, raw, hackled, or tow.
364. Abaca, heniquen, pita, jute, and other vegetable fibres, raw,
hackled, or tow.
365. Single yarns made of jute for the manufacture of sugar bags
only, to be imported by sugar-bag manufacturers only, the importer
to give a bond to use the yarn exclusively for the manufacture of
sugar bags.
366. Books, maps, and scientific instruments, for the use of
schools.
367. Coal and coke.
368. Mineral, carbonated or seltzer waters, natural or artificial,
root beer, ginger ale, and other similar non-alcoholic beverages,
not otherwise provided for.
369. Fresh fish.
370. Second-hand clothing donated for charitable purposes to needy
persons, and not for sale.
371. Articles of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the island
of Cuba exported to a foreign country and returned without having
been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of
manufacture or other means, and upon which no drawback or bounty
has been allowed.
IMPORT RATES OF DUTY
ABBREVIATIONS EMPLOYED IN THE TARIFF
G. W. = Gross weight.
N. W. = Net weight.
G. W.; T. = Gross weight or tare, as the case may be.
T. = Tare.
S. T. = Special tare.
Kil. = Kilograms.
Kilog. = Kilogram.
Hectog. = Hectogram.
Hectol. = Hectoliter.
Duties shall be paid in United States money, or in foreign gold
coin, such as the Spanish alfonsinos (centen) and the French louis,
which will be accepted at the following rates: Alfonsinos
(25-peseta piece), $4.82; louis (20-franc piece), $3.86.
The following Spanish silver coins now in circulation in the Island
of Cuba shall be received for customs at the following fixed rates
in American money: Peso, 60 cents; medio peso, 30 cents; peseta, 12
cents; real, 6 cents; medio real, 3 cents.
Bronze and copper coins now current in the Island of Cuba will be
received at their face value for fractional parts of a dollar in a
single payment to an amount not exceeding 12 cents (1 peseta).
The metrical system of weights and measures is in use in Cuba.
Importations from the United States are dutiable like other
commodities.
CLASS I.--STONES, EARTHS, ORES, GLASS, AND CERAMIC PRODUCTS
GROUP I.--_Stones and earths employed in building, arts, and
manufactures_
1. Marble, jasper, and alabaster:
_a._ In the rough or in dressed pieces, squared or prepared for
shaping, G. W......100 kil. $0.50
_b._ Slabs, plates, or steps of any dimension, polished
or not, G.W......100 kil. 1.00
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