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among which were gun-powder, arms, ammunition, or utensils 
of war, dried or salted fish, salted beef, pork, or bacon, whale 
oil, blubber, or fins. 
3. It subjected practically all goods imported from for- 
eign ports to a specific duty, or to a general duty of 15 per 
cent, regardless of whence imported, but provided, in effect, 
that any goods imported into these British colonies thru the 
United Kingdom should have one-tenth the duties levied in the 
free ports remitted. 
4. It permitted any goods to be exported from the Brit- 
ish free ports, except Newfoundland, to any foreign country 
in Europe, or Africa, or in Asia within the Mediterranean 
Sea, in any ship belonging to such country, but reserved the 
right to the King in Council to prohibit the trade with any 
country in Europe having possessions in America or the West 
Indies, if it should appear that similar privileges were not 
granted to British ships in the possessions of such country in 
America or the West Indies. 
5. It established five free warehousing ports in America, 
viz., Kingston in Jamaica, Halifax in Nova Scotia, Quebec in 
Canada, St. Johns in New Brunswick, Bridgetown in Barba- 
dos ; and permitted any goods which might be legally brought 
into these free ports to be stored in warehouses for two years, 
during or after which time they might be re-exported without 
having paid any duties. 
This act was considerably less favorable to the interests of 
the United States than had been the former British act of 
1822. The new act invited the countries of Europe, Africa, 
and Western Asia to compete in the markets of the British 
West Indies with the United States. Altho it permitted the 
importation of a greater number of articles into the British 
colonial free ports, a number of important American products, 
viz., wheat, barley, oats, Indian corn meal, cotton, wool, hides, 
skins, potatoes, hay, tobacco, tallow, pitch, tar, and turpentine, 
which had formerly been admitted free, were now subject to 
an import duty. It encouraged the indirect importation of 
American goods thru the United Kingdom by permitting such 
goods to enter the British colonial free ports at one-tenth less 
duty than similar goods imported directly from the United 
States. Finally it aimed by the free warehousing system to 
take from the United States part of the trade which the latter 
had already secured with the new Spanish American states. 
