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SEED TRADE BUYERS GUIDE 
Tariff Rates Now in Effect 
Approved by U. S. Congress, June 17, 1930 
The following paragraphs from the Tariff Act of 1930 pertain to 
Seeds, Bulbs and Nursery Stock 
Par. 722. Barley, hulled or unhulled, 
20 cents per bushel of forty-eight 
pounds; barley malt, 40 c.ents per one 
hundred pounds; pearl barley, patent 
barley and barley flour, 2 cents per 
pound. 
Par. 723. Buckwheat, hulled or un- 
hulled, 25 cents per one hundred 
pounds; buckwheat flour and grits or 
groats, one-half of one cent per pound. 
Par. 724. Corn or maize, including 
cracked corn, 25 cents per bushel of 
fifty-six pounds; corn grits, meal, and 
flour, and similar products, 50 cents 
per one hundred pounds. 
Par. 726. Oats, hulled or unhulled, 
16 cents per bushel of thirty-two 
pounds; unhulled ground oats, 45 cents 
per one hundred pounds; oatmeal, 
rolled oats, oat grits, and similar oat 
products, 80 cents per one hundred 
pounds. 
Par. 727. Paddy or rough rice, 1^4 
cents per pound; brown rice (hulls re¬ 
moved, all or in part), IVz cents per 
pound; milled rice (bran removed, all 
or in part), 2^ cents per pound; broken 
rice, which will pass readily through a 
metal sieve perforated with round 
holes five and one-half sixty-fourths 
of one inch in diameter, and rice meal, 
flour, polish, and bran, five-eighths of 
1 cent per pound. 
Par. 728. Rye, 15 cents per bushel 
of fifty-six pounds; rye malt, 40 cents 
per one hundred pounds; rye flour and 
meal, 45 cents per one hundred pounds. 
Par. 729. Wheat, 42 cents per bushel 
of sixty pounds; wheat, unfit for 
human consumption, 10 per centum ad 
valorem; wheat flour, semolina, crushed 
or tracked wheat, and similar wheat 
products not specially provided for, 
$1.04 per one hundred pounds. 
Bulbs 
Par. 753. Tulip bulbs, $6 per thou¬ 
sand; hyacinth bulbs, $4 per thousand; 
lily bulbs, $6 per thousand; narcissus 
bulbs, $6 per thousand; crocus corms, 
$2 per thousand; lily of the valley 
pips, $6 per thousand; all other bulbs, 
roots, rootstocks, clumps, corms, tubers 
and herbaceous perennials, imported 
for horticultural purposes, 30 per cen¬ 
tum ad valorem. 
Nursery Stock 
Par. 754. Seedlings and cuttings of 
Manetti, multiflora, brier, rugosa, and 
other rose stock, all the foregoing not 
more than three years old, $2 per 
thousand; rose plants, budded, grafted, 
or grown on their own roots, 4 cents 
each; cuttings, seedlings, and grafted 
or budded plants of other deciduous 
or evergreen ornamental trees, shrubs, 
or vines, and all nursery or greenhouse 
stock, not specially provided for, 25 
per centum ad valorem. 
Par. 755. Seedlings, layers, and cut¬ 
tings of apple, cherry, pear, plum, 
quince, and other fruit stocks, $2 per 
thousand; grafted or budded fruit 
trees, cuttings and seedlings of grapes, 
currants, gooseberries, or other fruit 
vines, plants or bushes, 25 per centum 
ad valorem. 
Par. 762. Oil-bearing seeds and ma¬ 
terials: Castor beans, one-half of 1 
cent per pound; flaxseed. 65 cents per 
bushel of fifty-six pounds; poppy seed, 
32 cents per one hundred pounds; sun¬ 
flower seed, 2 cents per pound; apricot 
and peach kernels, 3 cents per pound; 
soy beans, 2 cents per pound; cotton¬ 
seed, one-third of 1 cent per pound. 
Farm Seeds 
Par. 763. Grass seeds and other for¬ 
age crop seeds: Alfalfa, 8 cents per 
pound; alsike clover, 8 cents per pound; 
crimson clover, 2 cents per pound; red 
clover, 8 cents per pound; white and 
ladino clover, 6 cents per pound; sweet 
clover, 4 cents per pound; clower, not 
specially provided for, 3 cents per 
pound; millet, 1 cent per pound; or¬ 
chard grass, 5 cents per pound; rye 
grass, 3 cents per pound; timothy, 2 
cents per pound; hairy vetch, 3 cents 
per pound; other vetch, 1% cents per 
pound; bent-grass (genus agrostis), 40 
cents per pound; bluegrass, 5 cents per 
pound; tall oat, 5 cents per pound; all 
other grass and forage crop seeds not 
specially provided for, 2 cents per 
pound: “Provided”—That no allowance 
shall be made for dirt or other impuri¬ 
ties in seed of any kind. 
Garden Seeds 
Par. 764. Other garden and field 
seeds: Beet (except sugar beet), 4 cents 
per pound; cabbage, 12 cents per 
pound; canary, 1 cent per pound; car¬ 
rot, 4 cents per pound; cauliflower, 25 
cents per pound; celery, 2 cents per 
pound; kale, 6 cents per pound; kohl¬ 
rabi, 8 cents per pound; mangelwurzel, 
4 cents per pound; mushroom spawn, 
1 cent per pound; onion, 15 cents per 
pound; parsley, 2 cents per pound; par¬ 
snip, 4 cents per pound; pepper, 15 
cents per pound; radish, 6 cents per 
pound; spinach, 1 cent per pound; tree 
and shrub, 8 cents per pound; turnip. 
5 cents per pound; rutabaga, 5 cents 
per pound; flower, 6 eents per pound; 
all other garden and field seeds not 
specially provided for, 6 cents per 
pound; “Provided”—That the provi¬ 
sions for seeds in this schedule shall 
include such seeds whether used for 
planting or for other purposes. 
Onion Sets—cents per pound. 
Beans and Peas 
Par. 765. Beans, not specially pro¬ 
vided for, and black-eye cow-peas: 
Green or unripe, 3^ cents per pound; 
dried, 3 cents per pound; in brine, 3 
cents per pound; prepared or preserved 
in any manner, 3 cents per pound on 
the entire contents of the container. 
Par. 769. Peas and chickpeas or gar- 
banzos: Green or unripe, 3 cents per 
pound in the case of peas, and, in the 
case of chickpeas or garbanzos, 2 cents 
per imurjd; dried. 1% cents per pound; 
split, 2^ cents per pound; prepared or 
preserved in any manner, 2 cents per 
pound on the entire contents of the 
container. 
Par. 1727. Oil-bearing seeds and 
nuts: Copra, hempseed. kapok seed, 
palm nuts, palm-nut kernels, tung 
nuts, rapeseed. rubber seed, perilla and 
sesame seed; seeds and nuts, not spe¬ 
cially provided for, when the oils de¬ 
rived therefrom are free of duty. (See 
following note.) 
Note: In the opinion of thie American 
Seed Trade Association counsel, Curtis 
Nye Smith, Esq., seedsmen should de¬ 
clare hempseed and all varieties of 
rapeseed under this Par. 1727, free of 
duty, and not under Pars. 763 or 764. 
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