Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, Sixtieth Congress, 1908-09 |
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Page 897 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise to be appraised; and if the appraised value of any article of imported merchandise subject to an ad valorem duty or to a duty based upon or regulated in any manner by the value thereof...
Page 25 - CHAIRMAN WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, House of Representatives" Washington. DC DEAR SIR : We...
Page 897 - States for sale, including the value of all cartons, cases, crates, boxes, sacks, and coverings of any kind, and all other costs, charges, and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States...
Page 765 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries.
Page 551 - ... cents per pound; .all other acids not specially provided for in this Act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.
Page 385 - Chairman Ways and Means Committee, House of Representatives, Washington, DC DEAR SIR...
Page 555 - Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others, containing ferrocyanide of iron, in pulp, dry, or ground in or mixed with oil or water, eight cents per pound.
Page 154 - ... cents per pound ; If In blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, not polished, wholly or partly, and not made up Into finished or partly finished articles...
Page 553 - Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts...
Page 55 - ... those who are more largely interested, Mr. Howard, who has just been before you, being one of those. Paragraph 5, ammonia, we should advocate that the duty on sulphate of ammonia be retained at three-tenths of 1 cent per pound. It is in a measure protective. There was 32,000 tons of sulphate of ammonia imported into the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. Mr. DALZELL. How many tons? Mr. BOWER. Thirty-two thousand tons. The CHAIRMAN. You do not mean to include all ammonia...