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
_c._ Sculptures, high and bas-reliefs, vases, urns, and similar
articles for house decoration, T......100 kil. 3.10
_d._ Wrought or chiselled into other articles, polished
or not, T......100 kil. 2.00
2. Stones, other, natural or artificial:
_a._ Slabs, plates, or steps, G. W......do. .50
_b._ Wrought into all other articles, T......do. 1.00
3. Earths employed in manufactures and arts: Cement, lime,
and gypsum, G. W.....100 kil. .60
4. Gypsum manufactured into articles:
_a._ Statuettes, T......do. 3.00
_b._ Articles, other, T......do. .75
GROUP 2. _Coal._
(See Free list).
GROUP 3.----_Schists, bitumens, and their derivatives_
6. Tar and mineral pitch, asphalts, bitumens, and schists,
G. W.,.....100 kil. $ 0.60
7. Oleonaphtha, crude natural petroleum and crude oils
derived from schists, G. W......100 kil. 1.40
_a._ Crude petroleum to be used exclusively in the manufacture of
illuminating gas and only at gas works in Cuba, said gas
works to be subject to inspection by the customs authorities,
and to be used for no other purpose, provided that the importer
gives such bond as may be regarded necessary by the
acting collector, G. W......100 kil. .70
8. Petroleum and other mineral oils, rectified or refined, intended for
illumination; benzine, gasoline, and mineral oils not specially
mentioned; vaseline, G. W......100 kil. 4.70
_a._ A product from petroleum known under the name of cordage
oil, imported by and used exclusively for cordage works in
their manufacture of rope and cordage, provided that the importation
be made at the direct demand of the president of
the cordage company, and that the latter submit their works
at all times to the inspection of the customs authorities, and
that the importer give such bond as may be regarded necessary
by the acting collector, G. W......100 kil. 2.35
GROUP 4.----Ores
9. Ores, G. W......100 kil. .10
GROUP 5.----_Crystal and Glass_
10. Common or ordinary hollow glassware; electric
insulators, T......100 kil. 1.00
Common bottles of glass, intended to contain beer, rum, and
sparkling wines, manufactured with native fruit, and garrafones or
demijohns and siphons to contain mineral, carbonated, or seltzer
waters, shall enjoy a rebate of 60 per cent. of the duties stipulated
in this number, when imported and declared in the custom-house
by the manufacturers of said beverages.
11. Crystal, and glass imitating crystal:
_a._ Articles, cut, engraved, or gilt, T......100 kil. 14.00
_b._ Articles, other, T......do. 7.00
12. Plate glass and crystal:
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