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CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. (DUTIES ON IMPORTS.) 



other wrought-iron or steel nails, not specially enu- 

 merated or provided for in this act, four cents per 

 pound. 



Boiler tubes, or flues, or stays of wrought-iron or 

 steel, three cents per pound. 



Other wrought-iron or steel tubes or pipes, two and 

 one quarter cents per pound. 



Chain or chains of all kinds, made of iron and steel, 

 not less than three fourths of one inch in diameter, 

 one and three quarter cents per pound; less than 

 three fourths of one inch and not less than three 

 eighths of one inch in diameter, two cents per pound ; 

 less than three eighths of one inch in diameter, two 



or over in length, six cents per pound ; one inch and 

 less than two inches in length, eight cents per pound ; 

 over one half inch and less than one inch in length, 

 ten cents per pound ; one half inch and less in length, 

 twelve cents per pound. 



Iron or steel wire, smaller than number five and 

 not smaller than number ten wire gauge, one and one 

 half cents per pound ; smaller than number ten and 

 not smaller than number sixteen wire gauge, two 

 cents per pound; smaller than number sixteen and 

 not smaller than number twenty-six wire gauge, two 

 and one half cents per pound ; smaller than number 

 twenty-six wire gauge, three cents per pound : Pro- 



and one half cents per pound. vided, That iron or steel wire, covered with cotton, 



Cross-cut saws, eight cents per linear foot. silk, or other material, and wire commonly known as 



Mill, pit, and drag saws, not over nine inches wide, crinoline, corset, and hat wire, shall pay four cents 



per pound in addition to the foregoing rates : And 

 provided further, That no article made from iron or 

 steel wire, or of which iron or steel wire is a compo- 

 nent part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty 

 than the iron or steel wire from which it is made 



ten cents per linear foot ; over nine inches wide, 

 teen cents per linear foot. 



Circular saws, thirty per century ad valorem. 



Hand, back, and all other saws, not specially enu- 

 merated or provided for in this act, forty per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Files, file-blanks, rasps, and floats of all cuts and 

 kinds, four inches in length and under, thirty-five 

 cents per dozen ; ovar four inches in length and under 

 nine inches, seventy-five cents per dozen ; nine 

 inches in length and under fourteen inches, one dol- 

 lar and fifty cents per dozen ; fourteen inches in length 

 and over, two dollars and fifty cents per dozen. 



Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, and slabs, by 

 whatever process made ; die blocks or blanks ; billets 

 and bars and tapered or beveled bars ; bands, hoops, 

 strips and sheets, of all gauges and widths ; plates of 

 all thicknesses and widths ; steamer, crank, and other 

 shafts ; wrist or crank-pins ; connecting-rods and 



Cm-rods ; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes, or 

 ks of sheet or plate steel, or combination of steel 

 and iron, punched or not punched; hammer-molds 

 or swaged steel : gun-molds, not in bars ; alloys used 

 as substitutes for steel tools; all descriptions and 

 shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron-molded steel cast- 

 ings ; all of the above classes of steel not otherwise 

 specially provided for in this act, valued at four cents 

 a pound or less, forty-five per centum ad valorem ; 

 above four cents a pound and not above seven cents 

 per pound, two cents per pound ; valued above seven 

 cents a pound and not above ten cents per pound, two 

 and [one fourth] three fourths cents per pound ; val- 

 ued at above ten cents p_er pound, three and one fourth 

 cents per pound : Provided, That on all iron or steel 

 bars, rods^strips, or steel sheets of whatever shape, 

 and on all iron or steel bars of irregular shape or sec- 

 tion, cold-rolled, cold-hammered, or polished in any 

 way in addition to the ordinary process of hot-rolling 

 or hammering, there shall be paid one fourth cent per 

 pound in addition to the rates provided in this act, 

 and on steel circular saw-plates there shall be paid one 

 cent per pound in addition to the rate provided for in 

 this act. 



Iron or steel beams, girders, foists, angles, chan- 

 nels, car-truck channels, TT, columns and posts, or 

 parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb 

 beams, and building forms, together with all other 

 structural shapes of iron or steel, one and one fourth 

 of one cent per pound. 



Steel wheels and steel-tired wheels for railway pur- 

 poses, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or 

 steel locomotive, car, and other railway tires, or parts 

 thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, two and one 

 half of one cent per pound ; iron or steel ingots, 

 cogged ingots, blooms or blanks for the same, without 

 regard to the degree of manufacture, two cents per 

 pound. 



Iron or steel rivet, screw, nail, and fence- wire rods, 

 round : in coils and loops, not lighter than number 

 five wire gauge, valued at three and one half cents or 

 less per pound, six tenths of one cent per pound. 

 Iron or steel, flat with longitudinal ribs for the manu- 

 facture of fencing, six tenths of a cent per pound. 



Screws, commonly called wood screws, two inches 



either wholly or in part : And provided further, That 

 iron or steel wire cloths, and iron or steel wire net- 

 tings, made in meshes of any form, shall pay a duty 

 equal in amount to that imposed on iron or steel wire 

 of the same gauge, and two cents per pound in addi- 

 tion thereto. There shall be paid on galvanized iron 

 or steel wire (except fence-wire), one half of one cent 

 per pound in addition to the rate imposed on the wire 

 of which it is made. On iron-wire rope and wire 

 strand, one cent per pound in addition to the rates 

 imposed on the wire of which it is made. On steel- 

 wire rope and wire strand, two cents per pound in ad- 

 dition to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is 

 made. 



Steel not specially enumerated or provided for in 

 this act, forty-five per centum ad valorem : Provided, 

 That all metal produced from iron or its ores, which 

 is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, 

 without regard to the percentage of carbon contained 

 therein, whether produced by cementation, or con- 

 verted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the 

 crucible, Bessemer, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, 

 basic, Siemens-Martin, or open-hearth process, or by 

 the equivalent of either, or by the combination of two 

 or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by 

 any fusion or other process which produces from iron 

 or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in struc- 

 ture, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is 

 known as malleable iron castings, shall be classed and 

 denominated as steel. 



No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss 

 or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration 

 shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or 

 upon any partly manufactured article of iron or steel, 

 or upon any manufacture of iron and steel. 



Argentine, albata, or German silver, unmanufac- 

 tured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 



Copper, imported in the form of ores, two and one 

 half cents on each pound of fine copper contained 

 therein ; regulus of and black and coarse copper, and 

 copper cement, three and one half cents on each pound 

 of fine copper contained therein ; old copper, fit only 

 for remanufacture, clippings from new copper, and all 

 composition metal of which copper is a component 

 material of chief value not specially enumerated or 

 provided for in this act, three cents per pound ; cop- 

 per in plates, bars, ingots, Chili or other pigs, and m 

 other forms, not manufactured, or enumerated in this 

 act, four cents per pound ; in rolled plates, called bra- 

 zier's copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, 

 and all manufactures of copper, or of which copper 

 shall be a component of chief value, not specially 

 enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five 

 per centum ad valorem. 



Brass, in bars or pig. old brass, and clippings from 

 brass or Dutch metal, one and one half cent per 

 pound. 



Lead-ore and lead-dross, one and one half cent per 

 pound. 



