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of Mozambique have made similar provision for prohibiting or 
restraining the export of Angora rams and ewes. 
changes which have been made in the Customs Tariff of 
Norway, taking effect from the xst April :— 
foreign countries, his latter provision taking effect from the 
1st January, 1903. 
St. Lucia.— Prohibitions.— An Order in Council, dated 
10th April, 1902, prohibits, under Section 109 (1) of the 
Customs Ordinance, 1888, the importation of all cattle into 
St. Lucia from Porto Rico, except under the following 
conditions : — 
(1) That the master of the vessel in which such cattle are 
imported shall, on arrival at this port, cause such cattle to be 
examined by the Health officer in such manner and at such place 
as the Health officer may require and at the cost of the master 
of such vessel. 
{2) That such master shall obtain a written certificate from 
the Health officer that such cattle are free from glanders and 
shall produce such certificate to the treasurer. 
A copy of a Proclamation, dated 3rd April, 1902, has also 
been received prohibiting the importation into the colony, 
directly or indirectly, of any cocoa plants or parts or portions 
whatever of a cocoa tree, from the Continent of South America, 
east and south of the Isthmus of Panama. 
INDIA. 
Drawback of Duties on Articles Re-exported by 
Parcels Post. — Customs Circular (No. 8 of 1902), issued by the 
Finance and Commerce Department of the Government of 
India on 20th March, 1902, notifies that : 
11 The Governor-General in Council sanctions the payment 
of drawback in the case of all articles re-exported by parcels 
post, ill whatever manner imported, provided that adequate 
proof is produced of the payment of import duty, of the identity 
of the articles, and of their re-export being effected within two 
years from the date of importation, or within such extended term 
not exceeding three years as the Chief Customs Authority, 
on sufficient cause being shown, determines in any case.” 
Prance and Indian Produoe. — The following has been 
issued by the Finance Department : — “An intimation has been 
received from His Britannic Majesty’s Embassy at Paris, that 
by law passed on the 21st February last the French Govern- 
ment has been authorised to allow, provisionally, for another 
year, i.e., till the 23rd February, 1903, the minimum tariff for 
Indian produce.” 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
China. — Reduction of Export Duty on Tea. — A 
telegram from H.M. Special Commissioner for the negotiation 
of a new Commercial Treaty with China states that the Chinese 
Government have decided to reduce the export duty on tea to a 
rate of or equivalent to 3 per cent, ad valorem, and that the 
Chinese Customs at Shanghai have advertised that the intended 
reduction will come into force shortly. 
Egypt. — V aluation Tariff for Bags, Twine, etc. — 
The Egyptian Journal Officiel for the 16th April contains the 
text of a Valuation Tariff* in use by the Customs Authorities 
of Egypt, for the purpose of assessing Customs duties on bags, 
jute cloth, twine, etc., imported. The Tariff, which is as 
follows, came into operation on the 17th ult., and will continue 
in force for 12 months : — 
Valuationst 
per kilog. 
Milliemes.i 
Articles. 
Hessian jute or hemp sacks, made of f 
plain cloth, common quality . \ 
Twilled hessian jute or hemp sacks, J 
common quality . . . \ 
Hessian jute or hemp Goth, plain or 
twilled, common quality, not exceed- 
ing qAd. per yard for the plain . 
Jute or hemp untwist twine (the produce 
of the United Kingdom or of British 
Colonies) 
Old sacks ...... 
the Customs Administration and the principal merchants con- 
cerned, and may be denounced by the Administration or by the 
merchants not later than a fortnight before the lapse of the 
period for which they were framed. If not so denounced they 
remain in force for a further term. 
(Indian) 
2l£ 
(English) 
26 
(Indian) 
14 
(English) 
17 
25 
20$ 
12 
agreement 
between 
f Duly is charged on these valuations at the rate of 8 per 
cent. 
$Milli&me— yj^-gth part of the Egyptian £, which— 
£1. os. 6|d. 
Valuation for Rangoon Rice. — The Egyptian Journal 
Offtciel for the 30th April, contains a notice issued by the 
Direction-General of Customs, to the effect that Rangoon rice 
will, from the 1st ult. to the 31st October next, be valued for 
Tariff purposes at 660 milliemes (13s. 6^d. ) per sack of two 
cwt. net. 
Tariff 
Articles. 
Duty per kilog. 
No. 
Old Rate. 
New Rate. 
nya 
Transformers (formerly 
included in 114^) . 
Kron. ore. 
Free 
Kron. ore. 
5 % ad val. 
142 (3) 
Fruits, salted or preserved 
in vinegar — 
(a) Fruit and orange peel, 
preserved in brine 
0 75 
0 10 
{b) Tamarinds, with or 
without vinegar . 
0 20 
0 20 
( c ) Other. 
0 75 
0 75 
160 [a) 
Photographic plates 
Not tariffed 
0 30 
166 
Electric incandescent 
lamps .... 
r t 
1 50 
— 
Camphor. 
M 
Free 
257 
Clothing, as well as sewn 
parts thereof, even when 
not entirely finished — 
A. — Linen, even coloured 
or printed, imported 
starched ( including 
paper, boxes, and other 
packages) 
1 35 
1 75 
535 
Syrup containing over 25 
per cent, of glucose 
Free 
. 0 20 
New 
W ood and wooden wares— 
(if) Clothes’ pegs 
t-N 
0 
0 
0 25 
article 
Note.—' T he sections of 
the “Wood” schedule 
formerly numbered 10 
(e) and 10 (/) are now 
10 (/) and 10 (,§j re- 
spectively.) 
Note. — Kilog. =2 ‘2046 lbs. Krone=ioo ore=is. iJjd. 
Peru. -^Prohibition to Import Certain Articles of 
Food. — The Board of Trade are in receipt, through the Foreign 
Office, of a translation of a Peruvian Decree, dated the 
14th March, 1902, prohibiting the importation into Peru of 
articles of food preserved with boric acid. 
Russia. — Tariff Classification of Incandescent 
Electric Lamps and of “ Pegamoid," etc. — The Russian 
Customs Department have notified that incandescent electric 
lamps of glass and china, with metallic attachment, are to be 
dutiable under Section 169 of the Russian Customs Tariff, at 
the rate of 10 rbls. 20 cop. per poud (7|d. per lb.) A further 
notification is to the effect that “ pegamoid” and “ dertamoid," 
consisting of a tissue covered with a layer of chemically prepared 
cellulose, are dutiable, on importation into Russia, under the 
sections of the Tariff corresponding to the nature of the tissue. 
United States. — Customs Decisions. — The following 
is a list of some Decisions affecting the classification of articles 
under the United States Customs Tariff, which have recently 
been issued by the Treasury Department at Washington : — 
Cylinders for use in boilers.— Welded, corrugated or 
ribbed, iron or steel cylinders, so-called, invoiced as “boiler 
Hues ” or “ Purve's ribbed steel boiler flues," are dutiable as 
“welded cylindrical furnaces, made from plate metal," under 
the second clause of para. 152 of the Tariff, at the rate of 
2$ cents per lb. (its. 8d. per cwt.), and not as “boiler tubes, 
pipes, or flues,” under the first clause of the same para. 
Paintings , the work of an American artist t mporarily 
residing abroad, are frer of duty under para. 703 of the Tariff, 
without regard to the length of the artist’s absence. 
Iron sheets or plates, valued at more than 3 cents per lb. ) 
are dutiable under para. 193 of the Tariff, at the rate of 45 per 
cent, ad val., together with the additional duties (of ^ cent, 
per lb. in each case) which may be leviable under para. 132, or 
the proviso to para. 133, if the sheets or plates are cold-rolled, 
or galvanised, or both. 
Preparations of tallow, used simply for softening cotton 
cloth, are held not to be “alizarin assistants” within the 
meaning of para. 32 of the Tariff, but to be dutiable under 
Section 6, as unenumerated manufactured articles, at the rate of 
20 per cent, ad val. 
Dulcin is not dutiable as saccharine, but as a chemical 
compound, under para. 3 of the Tariff, at the rate of 25 per 
cent, ad val. 
Silkworm gut for use in the manufacture of “ snells ” or 
“leaders” for fishing lines, and catgut strings intended to be 
made into surgical sutures, ligaments, etc., are free of duty, 
under para. 517 of the Tariff, as “worm gut or catgut, un- 
manufactured.” 
Breccia, — Marble, in blocks or slabs, of a quality com- 
mercially known as “breccia,” is free of duty under para. 508 
of the Tariff. 
Tobacco, — By Section 3 of the Act, the Internal Revenue 
duties on snuff and manufactured tobacco, other than cigars and 
cigarettes (leviable also on imported tobacco and snuff in addition 
to import duty proper) are, from the 1st July next, to be reduced 
from 9 T ® 0 cents to 6 cents per pound ; while those on cigars and 
cigarettes (also leviable on imported cigars and cigarettes) are 
fixed as follows : — 
Dols. Cts. 
Weighing more than 3 lb. per 1,000 — 
Cigars. ..... per 1,000 3 00 
Cigarettes 3 00 
Weighing 3 lb. or less per 1,000— 
Cigars per lb. o 18 
Cigarettes of a wholesale value or 
price not exceeding 2 dols. per 
1,000 ,, o iS 
Do. , do. exceeding 2 dols. per 
1,000 ..... ,, o 36 
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TRANSPORT AND FREIGHTS. 
The Freight Market.— Outward coal rates are fairly steady 
in most directions, and River Plate shows a distinct improve- 
ment. Last fixtures have been on basis of 6s. 3d. Genoa, 
7s. Venice, 5$. 9d. Constantinople or Port Said, 6s. 6d. Las 
Palmas, 16s. South Africa, 14s. River Plate, 12s. 6d. Rio. 
America is quiet. The demand for grain from Atlantic ports 
has eased off. California has paid 40s. oats to South Africa. 
Australia has paid 55s. 6d. hay and 30s. 6d. oats to South 
Africa. Newcastle — Philippines open at 12s., Java 9s. Black 
Sea quiet. Odessa quoted at 8s,, Sulina 8s, 3d. Eastern 
markets quiet. Java has taken several boats at 23s., but has 
now ceased chartering. Calcutta and Rangoon are quoted at 
18s., a fall of 2S. Mediterranean markets are unchanged. 
River Plate quiet at 9s. Buenos Ayres, 12s. 6d. San Lorenzo. — 
Weddel, Turner & Co., May 23, 1902, 
COLONIES. 
Australia. — Transcontinental Railway Connection. 
— Mr. Oscar de Satgd, writing to the Times, under date April 26, 
discusses the advantages to be afforded by a through railway 
connection from Sydney northwards across the Australian 
continent. He says: — “ This line is already in work for 
500 miles between Sydney and Bourke, in New South Wales, 
and it would thence connect in a northerly line the inland 
Queensland townships of Conamulla, Charleville, Longreaeh, 
Winton, and Cloncurry, from which last point to Normanton, 
in the Gulf of Carpentaria, a concession by a recent Queensland 
Act of Parliament has been granted to an English company for 
the construction of a railway line of 250 miles, chiefly for 
mineral purposes. . . . The chief advantages of this line 
to Sydney and other southern markets would be a certain supply 
of meat from the vast Queensland pastures which can only now 
be reached by stock which leave their condition on the road by 
a tedious and expensive overlanding process. New South 
Wales, in the opening of this line of communication, would 
greatly benefit by sending north its stud stock to a certain 
market. Passengers for Batavia, China, Japan, etc,, whether 
on business or pleasure, would in most instances prefer the 
direct overland route to the long coastal trip on an often 
troubled sea. To Queensland the advantage of the line would 
be greater still, as it would immediately connect the Queensland 
western termini of Charleville, Longreaeh, and Winton lines 
which push inland from Brisbane, Rockhampton, and Towns- 
ville, respectively ; and this advantage, especially in seasons of 
drought, would be enormous. The meat markets of the south 
would be thus opened to Queensland in a regular way, and 
man\ r other inter-State advantages would accrue which need not 
be enumerated. The engineering difficulties of the line are nil. 
There are neither mountains nor rivers to cross, it is all chiefly 
black soil plains of saline, and therefore fattening quality, 
whilst last, but not least, the country traversed is chiefly of 
cretaceous formation and favourable to artesian supply, much 
of the country to be traversed having a! read v been developed 
by this means. There are bush fires and droughts to encounter, 
no doubt, but railway communication can be made greatly to 
check and counterpoise the dangers of such, w hilst the civilizing 
and protecting influence of such a line can hardly be expressed, 
for it is untold." 
Canada and the West Indies.— The Dominion Govern- 
ment has made a contract with the Halifax and West Indian 
Steamship Company for a monthly service between Halifax and 
Jamaica, which will continue in force until December the 31st, 
1906. The steamer to be used is the Beta , of 1,037 tons register. 
The Company is to receive a subsidy of $13,800 per annum, or 
at the rate of $1,150 a trip for twelve trips. 
Cyprus. — Navigation dues have been abolished in Cyprus, 
and a new law enacted substituting for them the payment of 
quay dues on the loading or discharging of certain articles of 
import and export. 
France. — Customs Decisions. — Circulars, recently 
issued by the French Customs Department, contain the following 
decisions affecting the application of the French Customs 
Tariff:— 
Leather dressing, composed of tallow and paraffin wax, is 
assimilated to “petroleum residues," dutiable at tjie rate of 
9 frs. per 100 kilogs. net (3s. 8d. per cwt. net), provided that 
(i) the proportion of insaponifiable paraffin does not exceed 
45 per cent., and (ii) that its fusion point is not higher than 
48 degrees. 
Salt in sacks . — Article 37 of the Finance Law for this 
year provides that all bags of salt presented for verification at 
a Custom-house or office of indirect taxes must be of a uniform 
and invariable weight of 50, 75, or 100 kilogs. Exception will 
be made in favour of small quantities, the weight of which does 
not exceed 25 kilogs. 
Increase ok Import Duty on Cigars and 
Cigarettes. — The French Finance Law of 30th March last 
provides that cigars and cigarettes imported on private account 
are to be dutiable at the rate of 50 frs. per kilog. instead of 
36 frs. as formerly, i.e., 18s. 2d. instead of 13s. id. per lb. 
The new rate came into force on the 1st ult. 
Import Duties on “Colonial Produce."— R elative to 
the French import duties on “colonial produce, according to a 
Circular recently issued by the French Customs Department, 
“colonial produce” is subjected to the operation of the 
“General” or maximum tariff when produced in any of the 
following countries : — Portugal and Portuguese Possessions, 
Malta, Gibraltar, Pleligoland, Ecuador, Chile, the Philippines, 
Cuba, the Dutch West Indies, British and^ Dutch Luiana, 
Australia, New Zealand, and the British West Indies other 
than Jamaica. 
Norway.— Tar 1 1 -k Alterations. — A despatch from H.M. 
Co sul-General at Christiania contains the following list o! 
Sulphide of antimony, crude, is free of duty under para. 476 
of the Tariff. The word “sulphite” in the text of that para, 
is a misprint for “ sulphide.” 
Copper matte is free of duty as copper regulus, under 
para. 534 of the Tariff. 
Canned fish roe, subjected to heat in preparation, and 
designed for use as a food, is dutiable at the rate of 20 per cent. 
ad val., as an unenumerated manufactured article, under 
Section 6 of the Tariff, 
ForfeitureofSpirits, etc. , imported from Canada.— 
With reference to the forfeiture of spirits imported from Canada 
into the United States in casks containing less than 100 (or, in 
some cases, 35) gallons, it is notified in a recent Circular of 
the United States Treasury Department, that the prohibition 
against such importation does not extend to wines, provided 
that they contain not more than 24 per cent, of alcohol. Wines 
containing more than that proportion of alcohol are, in virtue 
of the first proviso to para. 296 of the Tariff, classed as spirits, 
and are subject to the same regulations as regards forfeiture 
as spirits. 
Drawback on Manufactured Articles.— According 
to a recent circular of the United States Treasury Department, 
the assembling and putting together of imported parts of furni- 
ture intended for re-exportation in the completed state does not 
constitute a manufacture entitling the exporter to drawback of 
the duty paid on the imported parts under Section 30 of the 
Tariff. 
War-Revenue Taxation Repeal, Etc.— The Board 
of Trade have received, through “the Foreign Office, a copy of an 
Act approved by the President of the United States on the 
12th ult., which repeals certain additional taxation imposed by 
the “ War- Revenue Taxation ” Acts of June, 1898, and March, 
1901. 
Tea.— Section 7 ol this Act repeals the stamp tax on entries 
of imported goods from the 1st July next, while Section 10 
repeals the duty of 10 cents per pound on tea imported from 
Port Said. — It is reported that there is a large scheme on 
foot to promote the expansion of trade to and from Port Said, 
and to have a system of docks constructed on the African side 
of the port. It is maintained that, with the anticipated great 
increase in the crops due to the irrigation system which the 
Barrage on the Nile, now rapidly completing, will promote, the 
present shipping facilities at Egypt's only port, viz., Alexandria, 
will be insufficient. There will then be a great opportunity for 
Port Said, which can tap a district geographically better served 
vid Port Said than Alexandria for both imports and exports, 
more particularly the latter. A period of about three years 
would be required to construct the dock system proposed, 
during which time it is expected that there will be a decided 
increase in the quantity of cotton, onions, sugar, etc., produced 
in Egypt, and naturally the imports will grow likewise. Port 
Said, from its position, will serve as a transit depot for tran- 
shipment of cargo to all quarters of the world. At the present 
time there is a transit trade of some importance, chiefly in 
Calcutta and Rangoon produce for Mediterranean ports, whilst 
Syrian cargo is also transhipped to U.K. or Continent, and 
some few shipments of Egyptian cotton have during the last 
year or two been sent vid Port Said to Liverpool. 
West Indies. — Manchester and Jamaica. — Messrs. 
Elders and Fyffes, Limited, the great fruit importers, have 
definitely decided to run a regular direct line oi steamers, with 
fortnightly sailings, from Jamaica to Manchester, carrying 
bananas and other Jamaican fruits, which will be distributed 
from the Manchester docks to all the principal centres in the 
North of England and the Midlands. The first steamer is 
expected to arrive at Manchester early in July. 
INDIA. 
Railways, — The Indian mail has brought a summary ot 
the results of the working of the Indian railways for the official 
year which ended on March 31. It shows, the Pioneer of 
Allahabad remarks, that even the revised Budget estimate of 
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