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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[.\PRIL 1. 1912. 



Tariff on Materials Used in Rubber Manufacture. 



L'nder the system now Ijeing follou-cd. of taking up the tariff schedule liy schedule, such analogous items as come under other 

 schedules than those immediately under discussion, are necessarily left over for treatment in their turn under their proper heads. 

 Hence in the subjoined extract dealing primarily with schedules A (chemicals) and C (metals), some articles arc referred to which 

 belong to Schedules B and G, which sections have not yet been taken up. These references also include certain free items which 

 are appropriately considered with the dutiable schedules named. 



It is to be regretted that the plan of the present tariff places the free list by itself at the end of the dutialile schedules, instead 

 of letting it be divided under its appropriate heads, as has Ijeen done in the new chemical schedule. 



In the statistical table published in the 1ndi.\ Rubber World of July 1, 1911 (p. 380), the quantities and rates of duty under both 

 the Dingley and Payne Tariffs are shown, while the annexed table deals with the present and proposed duties. 



Schedules A (chemicals) and C (metals) at time of writing had passed the House of Representatives and were in the hands 

 of the Senate. The rates and equivalents quoted are therefore subject to change in committee, in debate or in conference; only so 

 far affording a general idea of the tendency of the present tariff proposals. 



Where goods now free are made dutial)le the prospective imports are assumed to be on the same basis as the latest available 

 returns. 



The so-called "basket clause" including chemicals not otherwise specified and which forms in the present tariff paragraph 3 at 

 25' per cent, appears in the proposed measure as paragraph 5 at 15 per cent. This clause should thus affect new chemicals, though 

 under the "similitude" theory they might be claimed by the customs officials to be covered by one or other of the specified 

 paragraphs. 



PROPOSED CHANGES IN DUTIES ON PRINCIPAL MATERIALS USED IN RUBBER MANUFACTURE. 



Acetone 



Acids. 



Carbolic 



Hydrochloric or Muriatic. 

 Sulphuric 



Ammonia. 



Carbonate 



Asbestos. 



Unmanufactured 



Antimony. 



Crude Ore, etc 



Oxide 



ASPHALTUM OR BiTC.MEN. 



Crude 



Dried or advanced 



Burgundy Pitch 



Chalk. 



Unmanufactured 



Ground, precipitated, etc. 

 Balsams. 



Canada 



Storax 



Tolu 



Cadmium 



Chloride of Calcium 



Coal Tar. 



Crude and pitch of 



Benzol, etc 



'Ac. 



Emery and Corundum. 



Emery Ore 



Corundum, abrasive 



Crude, artificial abrasives 



Grains and ground — 



Corundum . 



Emery 



Fullers' Earth. 



Unwrought and unmanufactured. 

 Wrought and manufactured 



Glycerine. 



Crude 



Refined 



