Additional Changes in the Tariff.

The Government of Chosen have just announced that drawbacks are to be granted on raw materials imported for the manufacture of leather goods and cigarettes. The rate of drawback on leaf tobacco is 20 per cent ad valorem. The rate on tanned hides, horse skins, buffalo skins, sheep skins and goat skins is 20 per cent ad valorem. The same rate is also granted on imported dyed, painted or colored leathers. Un sole leathers the rate of drawback allowed is yen 12.50 per picul. On Indian Red leathers the rate is yen 9.50 per picul

Changes in Duties on Musical Insrtuments.

A decree of August 29, 1920, published in "Le Journal Officiel' for September 4, substitutes ad valorem duties specific rates on the folowing articles: (Items ex604 and 605) Ianos and separate parts and organs, harmoniums, instruments with free reeus, metallic, of one or more stops; complete pipe organs; barrel organs, mechanical instruments with pipe controlled by means of cylinders, interchangeable or not, whatever be the motive power; mechanical pipe organs, pianos with organ pipes reproducing the effects of the violin, flute, or clarinet, orchestrions, etc., played by means of perforated cardboard or paper, what ever be the motive power instruments with strings for striking or reeds, played mechanically by means of a cylinder, interchangeable or not, of perforated cardboard or paper, whatever be the motive power; additional cylinders for such instruments; hand organs, aristons, manopans, and other instruments with free reeds, played by means of perforated cardboard or paper, including separate parts thereof, 35 per cent ad valorem: phonographs, gramophones, and the like, of more than 10 francs in value; phonographs, gramophones, and the like with cylinders or disks, with or without a screw for stimulating the diaphragm, put together or not; movements, accessories, separate parts, cases and horns, together with cylinders and disks of mineral wax or any other material plastic or not, blank or not, 25 per cent ad valorem.

The decree applies also to Algeria.

Prohibition on Pepper.

A decree of November 8, 1920, published in "Le Journal Officiel" for November 13, prohibits the importation of pepper into France and Algeria.

Change in Coefficients.

A decree of November 5, 1920, published in "Le Journal Officiel" November 6, establishes 2.6 as the coefficient for (ex84) grapes for wine making, wine residues, and must; (item 170ter) alcoholized grapes (item 173bis) raisin wines and other beverages not specified in the tariff. GEORGIA.

Prohibition on Articles of Luxury.

The chief of the department of customs has advised all offices under his control that, pursuant to the government's decree, the prohibition of the importation of articles of luxury from abroad became effective September 4, 1920. GERMANY.

Importation of Merchandise by Parcel Post. Merchandise of all kinds, except as hereafter provided, may be imported into Germany only by permit or license issued by the Imperial Commissioner, Tiergartenstrasse 31, Berlin, W10.

A permit or license is not necessary for the following merchandise:

I. a. Goods free from German customs duty, excluding precious stones or pearls or articles ornamented with precious stones or pearls valued at more than 200 marks. Other restrictions, however, may be prescribed by the imperial commissioner. The merchandise considered as free from customs duty are

sample cards and samples which can be used only as samples up to a weight limit of 350 grams (12 ounces), with the exception, however, of samples of foodstuffs destined for consumption, it being, nevertheless, permitted to import by mail up to a weight limit of 12 ounces of samples of coffee, cocoa sugar, raw tobacco, and dried fruits.

b. Drawings and other like objects destined to serve as models for the execution of orders from abroad when such objects are not accompanied with specifications.

C. Foodstuffs destined for personal use of the importer when the following restrictions are complied with:

Each parcel should contain only 1 kilo (2 pounds) of each of the following articles: Margerine, fats, bread and other bakers' articles, pastes, macaroni, sweetmeats, confectionery; other merchandise under customs tariff No. 202-tea, coffee, and products of cocoa and chocolate.

Each package may contain soap, candles, and starch not to exceed a total weight of 5 pounds, but no packages should contain any of the following articles, viz, butter, meat, and meat articles, lard, flour, sugar, pineapples, ginger, vanilla, caviar, caviar substitutes, caviar pickles, crabs, lobsters, and oysters.

2. a. Articles to be finished or repaired and returned to the country of origin, except precious stones or pearls or articles ornamented with precious stones or pearls, with such exceptions, however, as prescribed by the imperial commissioner.

b. Articles destined for the diplomatic representatives of foreign countries articles intended for the dormestic use of the legations, as well as food products, pieces of dress goods and articles of current use for the consuls accredited in Germany, to members of their families, or to their foreign personnel; or C. Parcels sent by authority of a certificate issued by a consul.

3. Foodstuffs and personal effects sent as gifts and for the personal use of the addressees will be admitted by German customs officers free of duty, who, however, must be satisfied that the foodstuffs and effects are really gifts and destined solely for the personal use of the addressee and members of his family.

4. Ship's provisions destined for the exclusive use of the ship. Independently of the merchandise mentioned in the foregoing, certain articles may be imported without special authorization, these articles being as follows:

American aloes; asbestos, raw and milled, fibres; balata, raw or cleaned or the refuse of same; beans, raw, in pieces, scorched or roasted, not hulled to be used for food for cattle, kidney, edible; books in all languages, including printed or manuscript prayer books, the same with images in the text, charted or added, of every kind, books printed in characters for the blind; all these books can be also bound; buttons, glass cloths, refuse of, destined for other purpose, strips of; cocoa fibres; cotton, raw, refuse of the harvest of, bleached, dyed, carded, combed and thrown, refuse of bleached or dyed cotton, coming from the carding, combing threading, weaving, or loom; eiderdown, vegetable; flour, scorched or roasted, coming from papilionaceous plants; gutta-percha, raw or cleaned also the refuse of; hair, animal, macerated hair of hares, including the silky hare, rabbits, beavers, monkey, musk and other curled hair coming from large cattle, swine bristles, and other large hairs of animals also mixed with other animal hair or with fibrous substances of the vegetable kingdom, raw and boiled; horsehair curlings, the same mixed with the hair of other animals or with fibrous vegetable substances; Journals, reviews, lenses of cut or uncut glass for the making of pocket lamps; lentils; necklaces, glass peas, including the hulls; rice starch. refuse of, fit only for fodder, residue of the distillation of rice, also dried; hemp, tow of; ramie, jute and jute tow; manila hemp, tow of; ramie, jute and jute tow; manila hemp and tow; agave fiber; pineapple fiber, esparto fiber, fiber of cocoa and eiderdown; peat wool, forest wool, and other vegetable textile substances; paper, written or printed, considered as waste; pearls, glass and wooded; pendants, glass; pineapples; refuse of uniform wool or of dyed wool coming from carding (wool flakes) of thread making, including the torn ends, of weaving or cloth cutting, wool hair, etc., refuse of other animal hair worked; rice polished or unpolished refuse of ming from the hulling and polishing of the rice, fit only for fodder; rubber, raw or cleaned refuse of; scissors, vine; silk, raw, not dyed, of the mulberry tree, silk work of the oak silk worm, of the tussah silk worm, refuse of; silk hair, refuse silk. uncombed combed, threads of silk, not dyed, simple, double, silk threads; sparta fibers, sparta herb, alfa grass; stones, glass, textile substances, raw bleached, macerated, pealed, towed, unstarched, carded and combed, dyed, refuse of these articles destined for spinning; thread and other fibres of agave; tubes, glass, for

lighting; wool, raw, unwashed, mother, washed, after the shearing, refuse of; forest and other vegetable textile substances, also the refuse of these substances not otherwise named, sheep's also tail wool and other animal hair, dressed bleached, dyed, also under the form of rings fulled or milled, carded or combed, except artificial wool, marine wool, wool of crossed animals, wool combings.

With respect to packages containing merchandise sent as gifts and referred to in paragraph 3, such packages and the customs declarations attached must be marked "gift packages" for the information of the German customs authorities.

GOLD COAST.

Prohibited Importation of Dyestuffs.

By an ordinance passed by the Legislative Council of the Colony on May 25, 1920, and assented to by the Governor on May 29, the importation of the following dyestuffs is prohibited, except under license by the Governor:

All derivatives of coal tar generally known as intermediate products capable of being used or adapted for use as dyestuffs other than articles which are the produce or manufacture of some part of the British Empire; and all direct cotton colors, all union colors, all acid colors. all chrome and mordant colors, all alizarine colors, all basic colors, all sulphide colors, all vat colors, including synthetic indigo,) all oil, spirit and wax colors, all lake colors, and any other synthetic colors dves, stains, color acids. color lakes, leuco acids, leuco bases, whether in paste, powder, solution or any other form, other than articles which are the produce or manufacture of some part of the British Empire.

These goods imported except under license will be forfeited to the Government, and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of of as the Governor may direct.

GREAT BRITIAN.

Fixed Rates on Tinned Fruits.

The Board of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom is prepared to consider applications for the approval of fixed rates. of customs duty on large and regular consignments of standard brands of imported tinned fruits, based on the percentage of sugar or other sweetening matter (exclusive of saccharin) used in the manufacture or preparation of the goods as an alternative to the entry of the goods under the appropriate tariff rating. Applications for fixed rates must be accompanied by a declaration and undertaking given by the overseas manufacturer. in the forms provided by this notice. The declaration and subsequent undertaking must give the required details of each brand or mark of each descriptive of fruit for which a fixed rate is sought. If the goods contain any sweetening matter other than sugar, the forms should be altered accordingly.

Rates of duty will be fixed as soon a the declaration made by the importer or importing agent has been confirmed by official analysis of a sufficient number of samples drawn. Meanwhile, immediate delivery of the relative brands will be permitted, on deposit of duty at the appropriate tariff ratings which will be adjusted when the fixed rates of duty have been approved by the board.

Food Regulations.

The Food Controller reports that, with a view to assisting the hop-growing industry, hops may not be imported except with a permit.

The maximum prices for eggs have been also cancelled. GREECE.

Method of Payment of Duties.

By a Royal Decree dated June 27 (July 9), 1920, it is provided that in future wherever a rate is set forth as payable in gold, collection shall be made at the rate of 1.45 drachmas parer to I drachma gold. This decree is in effect from the date of its publication.

INDIA. (BRITISH).

Reduction in Duty on Printing Machinery.

The Governor General in Council has exempted the following articles used for printing and lithographing purposes from so much of the import duty leviable the on as is in excess of 22 per cent. ad valorem :

Galley presses, proof presses, arming presses. copper plate printing presses, ruling machines. ruling pen making machines. lead and rule cutters, typecasting machines, typesetting and casting machines rule bending machines, rule-mitering machines, bronzing machines, leads, wooden and metal quoins, shooting sticks, and galleys.

ITALY.

Abolition of "Most-Favored-Nation" Clause. Steps to

terminate the provisions of the Italo-German

Treaty of December 3, 1904, and Italo-Austrian Commercial treaty have been taken.

The effect of the measures referred to above is that goods of certain kinds imported into Italy from other countries entitled to most-favored-nation treatment are now subject to the rates of the Italian "General" Tariff, instead of to the reduced duties applicable under the pre-war "Conventional" Tariff. The goods in question (in respect of which it will no longer be necessary to produce certificates of origin are those covered by the schedules of Italian import duties annexed to the abovementioned Italian Treaties with Austria-Hungary and Germany, and not covered by a Treaty between Italy and other States which is still in force.

ITALY.

Changes in Restrictions. Notice has been received from the Ministry of Finance that the importation of the following commodities has been authorized:

Small tubes, shuttles, and bobbins made of paper or cardboard for weaving and spinning.

Wheat flour may be imported by biscuit manufacturers if utilized for the manufacture of biscuits for export. The export permits for biscuits, as well as the import permits for flour, given under this new ruling are subject to control by the Ministry of Finance. For the present, rye and rye flour cannot be imported without an import permit.

Increase in Duties on Automobiles and Tractors. The Government has just decreed radical increases in the rates now in force.

Effective September 15, 1920, passenger automobiles with or without bodies, trucks, traction engines, including farm tractors, motor driven street cleaning apparatus and motor fire engines will pay the following duty in gold per quintal:

Weighing not more than 400 kilos

Over 400 kilos up to and including 900 kilos.
Over 900 kilos up to and including 1600 kilos.
Over 1600 kilos up to and including 2500 kilos..
Over 2500 kilos up to and including 4000 kilos.
Over 4000 kilos

Lire

20 115

65 75

95

60

Automobiles with or without bodies, weighing not more than 2500 kilos will pay also a surtax of 25 per cent ad valorem.

Automobile bodies will be classified as automobiles. On automobile parts the following new duties, gold per quintal, will be established:

On frames, 70 lire; gear shifts, 110 lire; rear axles, complete, 90 lire; all plus a surtax of 30 per cent ad valorem. The restrictions on the importation of motor trucks have been removed. effective October 29, 1920.

A ruling extends to farm traction engines, weighing not more than 2500 kilos, the surtax of 35 per cent ad valorem above the regular duties thereon. This decision places these tractors in the same class as automobiles of the same weight.

ties for which during a certain period special import duties, in addition to the regular schedule, shall be paid, not to exceed, however, the value of the article itself."

"Regarding commodities which have been thus designated which have already been imported, and which are owned or possessed by a merchant or his representative, the Government is authorized to levy superduties for such commodities from the seller or his representative, in accordance with the preceding paragraph. The super duties provided in the preceding paragraph shall be collected after the method of collecting national taxes."

Art. VII. The following articles are added to the free list:

4. Mineral oils for fuel purposes imported by the Government.

4. (2) Mineral oils for fuel purposes which the specific gravity exceeds 0.904 at 15 deg. C., but which as defined by an order are only imported by permission of the Government.

Note. The former provision for the free admission of mineral oils reads as follows:

"Mineral oils, other than the crude oils, imported for use by the Army or the Navy, with a specific gravity 0.975 at 15 deg. C."

23. Animals for breeding purposes, serums for the immunity from diseases, innoculation media for the prevention of diseases of animals imported by provisional, prefectural, or other public bodies, legal persons engaged in the industries named by the Government, or persons who were permitted by the Government.

Art. VIII. The following addition is made to the list of articles exempted from import duty if they agree to be re-exported within one year:

8. Commodities imported for the purpose of exhibit at competitive exhibitions and prize shows.

Charges in Duties.

Duties are increased on sake (item 61) and chinese liquors, fermented (item 62) to Y2420; beer, ale, porter and Storet (item 63) to Y16.40; wines (item 64) is increased by Y7.80; champagne and other sparkling wines (item 64) to Y108.00; alcoholic liquors, not otherwise provided for (item 66)-(1) to Y27.80, (2) A-to Y124.00 and (2) B- Y73.90, Note to Y1.28: alcohol (item 197), denatured alcohol (item 198) and alcoholic medicinal preparations (item 220) to Y1.00; metal or woodworking machinery (item 596) (1) to Y50.00, (2) to Y30.00, (3) to Y19.00, (4) to Y17.00; (5) to Y15.00, (6) to Y13.00, (7) to Y9.10, (8) to Y8.00, (9) to Y5.10 and (10) to Y4.70.

Ad varolem duties are imposed on liquorice extract (item 141-2) at 10 per cent; artificial indigo (item 237) at 20 per cent; wood, other than mentioned specially in tariff (item 612, (2) (D) at 25 per cent; bromine (item 151-2); salicylic and acetyl salicylic acid (item 157), salicylate of sodio theobromide (item 172), hydrobromic acid, potassium bromide and other bromides not otherwise provided for (item 179, antifebrin (item 206), chemical products derived from the fractional distillation of coal tar, except carbolic acid, salicylic acid, bakelite and medical drugs and essences other than benzoldenhyde, nitrobenzol and nitrotoluol (item 215), and coal tar dyes not otherwise provided for (item 243) at 35 per cent.

On the free list are placed: Shellfish for breeding purposes (item 9); silkworms' eggs (item 10-2); zoom nuts and other similar nuts for button manufacture (item 28); oil seeds not named in a separate number (except paulownia seed) (item 29-3) salt (item 67-3); furs of sheep and goats, other than tanned (item 69-1); tortoise shells (item 87); olive oil in can or barrel (item 98); beef tallow (item 108-2); vegetable tallow or wax obtained from the seeds of the "tsillingia Sebifera" (item 115-2); liquorice (item 123); ipecacuanha root (item 125); cassia and cinnamon bark (item 127); conchona bark (item 128); patchouli leaves (item 128-2); ryutan or gentian root (item 129; rhubard (item 130); apricot seed and bitter almond (item 132-2); nux vomica (item 132-3); ergot of rye (item 133); cloves (item 137); pitch and asphalt (item 259); gypsum uncalcined (item 423-1); minerals and manufactures thereof, not other wise provided for (item 435 (1) and (2) A); matte, bottom or mineral dust (item 458); iridium, osmium, palladium, rodium, indium and ruthenium (item 459); the following waste or old metals fit only for remanufacturing: copper (item 464-4); brass and bronze (471-7); wood, cut, sawn or split simply, cedar and other not exceeding 65 millimeters in thickness (item 612 (1) F1 and F2b); match splint (item 612 (2) C); wheat bran (item 644), and rice bran (item 645).

Renewal of Duty on Wheat and Flour.

The duty on wheat and flour, which in the case of wheat was taken off altogether, while the duty on flour was reduced from 1.85 yen per picul in March, 1919, is now to be put back on the old scale, which is as follows: Wheat, 0.77 yen per picul. Flour, 1.85 yen per picul (133 pounds).

The Government also decided to revoke the ordinance which suspended the duties on rice and other grain. These changes have taken effect on November 1.

Free Import of Live Stock.

The Minister of Finance has just announced that certain bodies or unions of live stock men are now privileged to import free of duty live stock for the improvement of breeding in Japan. Applications for import of horses must be addressed to the Minister of War, while licenses for import of all other animals will be given by the Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce.

Prohibition on Certain Plants.

The Government Gazette of August 13, 1920, contained an announcement of regulations which prohibited the importation of the following plants or of articles used as containers or wrappers of seed plants:

Raw fruits or raw vegetables originating from or that have been landed in Hawaii; cucumbers, watermelons, muskmelons, pumpkins, and fruits of other cucurbitaceae and tomatoes, string beans and stringed peas originating from or that have been landed at Taiwan, British India, Burmah, British Straits Settlements, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, the Philippines, and other localities between 30 deg. south latitude and 30 deg. north latitude and between 60 deg. and 170 deg. each longitude; apples pears, quince, peaches, plums and apricots and walnuts originating from or that have been landed at or in Europe, United States of America. British Canada, South African Union, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, or Brazil.

1902.

The ordinance will be in effect on and after October 15,

LATVIA.

Changes in Duties.

The following items are added to the list of goods which may be imported free of duty: Eggs, flour, vetches, clover, timothy grass, cat seed, flax, linseed, rags and stamps.

Motor vehicles will be dutiable at the rate of 2 per cent ad valorem, while tin plates, cocoanut oil, waterproof overcoats and locomotive axles, at 5 per cent ad valorem; rubber footwear, at 10 per cent ad valorem; and hair pins, sewing needles, thimbles and ready made corks at 25 per cent ad valorem.

MALTA.

Regulations for the Control of Narcotics.

The sale in the Maltese Islands of all drugs in medicinal doses is reserved to the apothecaries only under article 60 of the Second Sanitary Ordinance. The Opium Ordinance 1913 regulates and retsricts the importation, storage, and disposal of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs.

With the exception of licensed chemists, physicians, surgeons and dentists, who may be authorized to withdraw from customs specified quantities of the substances mentioned in the Opium Ordinance 1913, there are no authorized dealers in narcotics in the Maltese Islands. In the cases of the classes of persons mentioned they must be specially authorized in writing in each particular instance, by the medical officer of health or the head of the Government, before they may withdraw narcotics from the customs. MEXICO.

Changes in Duties.

Changes in the schedule of the Mexican import tariff reclassify condensed, evaporated and powdered milk and opium and opium extract without affecting the rate of duty. The duty on cotton textiles with mixture of gold, silver or platinum threads has been increased from 6 pesos per legal kilo to 25 pesos per legal kilo, and on silk textiles with mixtures of gold, silver or platinum threads from 25 pesos per legal kilo to 40 pesos per legal kilo.

The duty on iron piping exceeding 15 centimeters inside diameter has been removed from October 20, 1920. NEW ZEALAND.

Goods From Enemy Countries.

"The New Zealand Gazette" has published an Order in Council revoking the Order in Council prohibiting the importation of products from Germany, Austira-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, and has made it possible for the impor

tation of products from Germany, as now constituted, or Austria, other than territory that is now territory of CzechoSlovakia, or of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovens, or of the Kingdom of Italy that was a portion of AustriaHungary in 1914, if the manufactured articles or products contain as much as 5 per cent of the value thereof manufactured in Germany or Austria, and this only after securing a permit from the Minister of Customs in New Zealand.

If a collector of customs has reason to believe or suspect that any goods imported into New Zealand are goods the importation whereof is prohibited by this Order in Council without the leave of the Minister of Customs, the collector may detain those goods, and they shall not be delivered from the control of the customs until the collector is satisfied by such evidence as he requires, that the goods are not goods the importation whereof is hereby prohibited, or the Minister of Customs consents to the importation of those goods or to the exportation thereof.

If the invoice for any goods imported into New Zealand from any country contains or is accompanied by a certificate signed by the exporter to the effect that less than 5 per cent of the fair market value in the country of export of each article in its condition as exported has its source in Germany or Austria, such certificate shall be accepted by the collector of customs as sufficient evidence that the goods are not goods the importation of which is prohibited within the meaning of this order, unless the collector has reason to believe or suspect that the certificate is false or erroneous. NORWAY.

Prohibitions on Luxuries.

The importation of the goods specified below has been prohibited from August 19, 1920. These prohibited goods may, however, be admitted if the shipping documents show that they were shipped before midnight of August 18, or, in case of imports by parcel post, if the despatch note is stamped by the Norwegian postal authorities not later than August 25, 1920. License granted will be valid for three months from the date of issue. The import prohibition does not apply to transit goods.

The goods on the prohibited list are as follows:

(Item 56) Cotto blonde, lace, insertions and the like; (items 159-170) ornamental feathers, whether prepared or not, and other feathers (not including bed feathers), and manufactures thereof; (item 213) glass wares (other than those specifically mentioned in the tariff), cut, etched, sandblasted, painted, gilt or ornamented or decorated otherwise than by molding or pressing; (items 244-246) hats trimmed with flowers, feathers or lace; hats of pure or mixed silk, including tall hats and opera hats; other hats, if trimmed with silk or mixed silk material; (items 264-265) grand and upright pianos; (item 276) talking machines such as phonographs, gramophones, and the like, with cylinders, disks, and other appurtenances, including receiving apparatus and parts thereof; (item 293) common pottery, other than unglazed, unpainted, or uncolored; (item 296) porcelain (china) and biscuit ware (not including patent stoppers); items 367-369) lamps (not including household lamps) and parts of lamps (except counterweights, chimneys and globes), candelabra, brackets and parts of the same, candlesticks and lanterns; (item 371) toys of all kinds and of any material, and parts thereof; (item 404) linen, hemp, jute, etc., lace, blonde, insertions, embroidered lengths and the like; (item 422) paintings and drawings unframed; (items 453-456) gold, silver, and platinum wares except plates and wire and articles set in these metals; (item 57)) pearls' real or imitation) and glass beads, whether combined or not with other materials; (items 623, 625, 626) silk goods, the following-blonde, lace, and embroidered bands, insertions and the like, bobbinet and tulle, and other goods (except twist and seive gauze) of silk alone or combined with other materials; (note-goods of the kinds included in items 623, 625 and 626, are also prohibited if they are sewn, embroidered or otherwise made up); (item 645) boots and shoes of silk cloth or containing silk, boots and shoes of patent, shagreened, bronzed, tawed varnished or alum tanned leather, and real or imitation kid, whether or not combined with leather of other kinds; (items 653-755) dressed fur skins and feathered skins, whether sewn together or not; made up furriers' wares; (items 675, 676) wares of marble porphyry, syenite granite, labrador, sandstone, and other similar stones (not including paving stones and rough hewn blocks), and of alabaster, kalipasta, and the like; (item 717) wooden rods, beading and frames with real or imitation gilding, beadings or lacquered; (item 721-723) furniture and parts thereof, of, or veneered with, oak, ash, beech; of pear tree wood, jacaranda, walnut, mahogany and other exotic woods: also real

or imitation gilt wares of any wood; furniture and parts thereof, upholstered or padded, in which the joinery is not the essential feature; (item 751) woolen carpets and carpeting; (item 757) woolen blonde, lace embroidered bands, insertions and the like, and bobbinet and tulle; (items 785-790) carts and carriages for carrying persons, whether or not varnished and with or without upholstery and leather work; and (item 794) sledges (other than children's and industrial sledges), if varnished, upholstered, or with leather work; motor cars for passenger traffic; motor cycles, with and without side cars, and cycle cars.

Licenses for Certain Shoes.

The Government will grant import licenses for shoes made of glazed kid or imitation glazed kid if they contain no patent leather.

Addtiional Restrictions.

"In accordance with law of March 22, 1918, No. 5, paragraph 2, by authority of royal resolution of August 17, 1920, the import prohibition of August 19, 1920, is from this date (September 11, 1920) extended to apply also to the articles and goods listed below, which it is forbidden from this date to import into the country unless import licenses are first obtained from the Department of Commerce. For the items marked with a star (*) licenses will be issued if such articles are not deemed to be luxuries. For the other articles listed permission to import will be granted only in th most exceptional cases.

"Application for import licenses must be made on the authorized blanks provided by the department.

"When shipping documents prove that goods were loaded for shipment before midnight of September 10, 1920, the same may be imported without special permission upon_application therefor to the Norwegian Customs Service. This also applies to goods arriving by parcel post when the postal documents indicate that they have been stamped by the Norwegian Postal Department not later than September 11, 1920. This import prohibition applies to new as well as to used articles and goods."

The following goods are affected by this order: Artificial flowers; umbrellas and parasols covered with silk or with any silk attached; neckwear of silk or half-silk; ribbons and belts of silk; gloves and mittens of silk or half silk; floor coverings composed entirely or for the greater part of hair; wall hangings and Gobelin tapestries of wool; (*) toilet articles; (*) barbers' supplies; (*) sewing and writing articles; (*) pocketbooks; (*) notebooks, etc; (*) brief cases; (*) albums; (*) portemanteaus; (*) women's pocketbooks and small bags, made of skin or silk; trunks, traveling bags and other travelers' requisites made of skin or leather; (*) furniture and other cabinetmakers' work of birch; perfumes; perfumed toilet soap; cakes, including cookies, crackers, etc., containing vanilla, almonds, cocoanut, citron, honey, sugar, sirup or similar articles; chocolate; candies, including chocolate candy, drops, marsipan and other confectionery; apples and pears, fresh, dates; preserved fruits of all kinds cigars and cigarettes. PALESTINE.

Changes in Duties.

From 31st August, 1920, the following goods are subject to 3 per cent ad valorem duty for a period of two years: Timber-hard or soft woods in the round, balk, or sawn square, for house building or constructional purposes, including prepared joinery, such as doors and windows, with or without frames and the like; laths for blinds; jalings; pickets, dressed or undressed; architraves, mouldings and skirtings of any material; picture and room moulding; woodware for vehicles; wood, all articles made of, not included elsewhere, whether partly or wholly finished.

Iron and steel bar, round, square or flat, up to 4 square inches in section, and of any length.

Plates and sheetings including tin plates, galvanized or corrugated.

Sections, rolled iron or steel of H, channel, angle, or other shape excluding all articles of brass, coper and lead, and such articles of iron and steel lined or plated with brass, copper, or lead pipes and tubes; wrought and cast-iron fittings for pipes; metal parts of machinery; and manufactures of iron and steel not otherwise stated.

Glass Window glass, ordinary (excluding plate-glass, whether mounted looking-glasses and mirrors, mounted).

or 11n

us from

Bricks-Hollow bricks for partitions; slates de income is roofing (excluding plaster of Paris, limes and having a lime basis).

or an aggregate

ssessment makes

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PARAGUAY.

Analysis for Food Products.

By a decree issued on May 17, 1920, all imported food products must have a certificate of analysis from the muni cipal bureau of chemistry before they can be cleared from the custom house of the capital. This measure is intended to prevent the entrance of food which is unfit for consumption.

Import Surtaxes.

The ad valorem import surtaxes on articles of luxury imported into Rumania, established by Articles 2 and 3 of Decree Law No. 2969, of July 10, 1919, and the commission tax of 2 per cent ad valorem on all imported goods, have hitherto been paid in lei by converting the invoice price into lei at the rate of exchange officially fixed. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce have issued a ruling, dated September 29, to the effect that, as from October 1, 1920, the above mentioned taxes shall be calculated by converting the currency of the invoice into lei at the exchange rate of the day. RUSSIA.

Payment of Duty in Vladivostok.

By the new law which the local authorities have adopted customs duties and port and customs dues and fines are to be paid in gold or the equivalent of gold. SALVADOR.

Restoration of Duties.

"El Diario Oficial" for September 16, 1920, carried a decree of September 11, which reestablished the import duty of 5 centavos (gold) per kilo on all automobiles except trucks for industrial, agricultural and commercial purposes, and farm tractors. The duty on gasoline oil will also be 5 centavos per kilo. This decree goes into effect 12 days after publication with reference to gasoline, and in 30 days for automobiles.

Duty on Electric Pans, Ranges and Irons.

By a decree published in "El Diario Oficial" for October 8, 1920, the duty on electric pans, ranges, irons, curlers and soldering irons will, beginning with that date, be determined by the component materials instead of at the flat rate of 10 centavos (American gold) per kilo, fixed on December 17, 1918.

SWITZERLAND.

Decisions of Food Commission.

The Federal Food Commission in a meeting at Berne on October 20, 1920, decided to allow the large centers of consumption to import fresh meat and butchers' meat on the hoof.

TRINIDAD.

Customs Duty Changes.

All foodstuffs, cattle feeds and cotton prints are now admitted free of duty from the British countries, while on those commodities for other countries the duty is reduced 50 per cent. Machinery of British origin has been placed on the free list, but the duty on foreign machinery has been increased from 22 per cent to 5 per cent. Most classes of manufactured goods, including apparel and hardware, formerly paying 10 per cent without preference, and goods such as paper, shoes, motor cars, paying 8 per cent preferential rates and 10 per cent general rates will hereafter be dutiable at 10 per cent preferential and 15 per cent general rates. Duties on luxurious articles such as jewelry, perfumery, plated ware, and pleasure motor cars have been doubled. All ad valorem duties are computed on values converted into Trinidad money at the market rate of exchange on the day the duty is paid. These duties came into effect on Novmber 5, 1920.

TUNIS.

Relaxation of Restrictions.

A Bey's decree of August 12, 1920, published in the Tunisian "Le Journal Officiel" for September 22, abrogates the decree of May 10, 1920, which extended the French import restrictions of April 23 to Tunis. There are, however, a few specified commodities including firearms and foodstuffs, tea, alcohol, and gunpowder which are still prohibited or specially restricted.

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Merchandise in Parcel Post.

The Pretoria office has given notice that the war duty of 5 per cent ad valorem has recently been abolished on wearing apparel, other than articles composed of or containing silk or imitation silk; consequently it is essential that the material of articles of clothing be fully described on the customs declarations to show whether of wool, cotton, or silk.

Prohibition on Wheat, Flour and Meal.

Under date November 18, 1920, importation into South Africa of wheat, flour and meal is prohibited until further notice. By a notice in the Union's "Official Gazette" for January 6th, 1921, this prohibition is extended to barley. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Marking of Bags for Vegetables.

The Treasury Department gave a recent ruling to the effect that bags or sacks containing imported potatoes, turnips and similar articles may be admitted to entry without being marked to indicate the country of origin.

URUGUAY.

Windmills Exempt from Duty.

By a decree of September 10, 1920, windmills and their accessories and spare parts are declared free of duty when imported under regulations made by the decree of September 14, 1912, for the importation of seeds, machinery and implements, etc., for agriculture.

VENEZUELA.

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