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PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH, 1904. 



We not infrequently have inquiries in regard to the tariff 

 laws in relation to insects. It would appear that there is a 

 duty of ten per cent ad valorem, as they would probably be 

 classed under "raw" articles. Dr. L. O. Howard has very 

 kindly sent us the following tariff regulations, with his 

 comments : 



Paragraph 20 of the Tariff of 1897 reads, " Drugs, such as 

 barks, beans, berries, * * * dried insects, grains, gums, * * 

 etc. , one-fourth of one cent per pound and in addition thereto 

 ten per centum ad valorem." I imagine that this paragraph 

 refers to Spanish flies and such things. 



Paragraph 666 reads, "Specimens of natural history, bot- 

 any and mineralogy, when imported for scientific public col- 

 lections, and not for sale;" this is one of the paragraphs 

 under the free list. 



I find no other reference to collections of insects except that 

 Paragraph 548 under the free list includes ' ' drugs, such as 

 barks, beans, berries, * * * dried insects, grains, gums, * * * 

 any of the foregoing which are drugs and are not edible and 

 are in a crude state and not advanced in value or condition by 

 refining and grinding or by other process, and not specially 

 provided for in this Act." 



Of course collections not intended for public institutions 

 come under the provisions of Section 6, which reads "That 

 there shall be levied, collected and paid on the importation of 

 all raw or unmanufactured articles, not enumerated or pro- 

 vided for in this act, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem, and 

 on all articles manufactured, in whole or part, not provided for 

 in this Act, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem." 



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