Comparitive table of import duties in the United States and European countries.
ARTICLES | UNITED STATES | GREAT BRITAIN | GERMAN ZOLL- VEREIN | SWITZERLAND | |
1 | Musical instruments........ | 30 per cent...... | Free............ | Centner..$2.88 | Centner..$1.56 |
2 | Musical instruments, strings of gut. | 30 per cent....... | Free............ | Centner...0.36 | Centner...1.56 |
3 | part metal............ | 35 per cent...... | Free............ | Centner...0.36 | Centner...1.56 |
7 | [Steel wire], less than ¼ inch in diameter, not less than No. 16, wire guage. | 20 per cent, and $0.02½ per lb. | Free............ | Manuf. iron in bars, wheel tires for rail road card, wire unpolished of 1-16 inch or less in diameter, centner..$0.84 | Iron wire and sheet iron cop- pered or tinned, centner, $0.29 |
8 | Same, less than ¼ inch in diameter, less than No. 16, wire guage. | 20 per cent, and $0.03 per lb. | Free............ | ||
6 | Wood, bar, box, Brazil Brazilette, camwood carmaguey, dye-wood in sticks, fustic, lignum-vitae, lance, log, Nicaragua, Pernambuco,queen's,red sanders, red, Rio de la Hache, Santa Martha, and other dye-woods; sandal in sticks; ebony and granadilla; ebony, green, (dye ;) jacaranda, rose, satin, cedar, and mahog- ony-all cabinet wood. | Free............ | Free............ | All wood, un- manufact'd,free. wood in ve- neers,cen'r.0.36 All cabinet wood, free. | All cabinet wood, 15 cent'r. 0.029 Dyewood, cent- ner..... 0.145 |
Wood, goncallo | 20 per cent..... | Free............ | Free............ | 10 per cent..... |
(Duties expressed in gold dollars of the United States.) - Continued
FRANCE | RUSSIA | NETHERLANDS | |||||
General tariff. | In treaty with Great Britain, &c. | ||||||
In French ves- sels. | In other vessels. | In vessels of treaty powers. | In other vessels. | ||||
Fifes, flageolets, each | $0.12 | $0.12. | Free... | $0.48 | Piano-fortes and or- gans not portable, each.......$31.20 | 5 percent.......... | 1 |
Flutes, triangles, each | 0.145 | 0.145 | 10 percent | ||||
Tambourines, each... | 0.29 | 0.29 | |||||
Trumpets & violins, e. | 0.58 | 1.58 | Ordinary and church organs, and harps each.......... 7.80 | ||||
Clarionets.......... | 0.97 | 0.78 | |||||
Bass, each......... | 1.45 | 1.45 | |||||
Harmonicas and trans- portable organs, each. | 3.51 | 3.51 | All not specially enu- merated, p'nd.0.117 | ||||
Pianos, square, each.. | 58.50 | 58.50 | |||||
other........ | 78.00 | 78.00 | |||||
........................ | 15 per cent. | 10 per cent. | Pound..........0.08 | 5 per cent.......... | 2 | ||
........................ | 15 per cent. | 10 per cent. | Pound..........0.08 | 5 per cent.......... | 3 | ||
Steel wire all for in- struments, 100 kilogs | $13.95 | $14.82 | $3.90 | $4.29 | Wire, pood, $1.17 | In bars, wire, sheets, and rails, free. | 7 |
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Wood, In leaves, 1,000 leaves.. | 0.019 | 0.29 | Free... | 0.34  | All wood, not other- wise provided for, free. Precious woods, as guaiac,ced'r,cypre's mahogany, nutwo'd, rosewood, palmtree, &c., &c., pood. 0.04 All in leaves or ve- neers, pood ... 0.33 | Furniture wood not sawn, 1 per cent. Sawn, 3 per cent. | 6 |
Cabinet wood in planks, over 2 decimeters thick : Box tree, 100 kilogs.... | 0.195 | 0.195 | ........ | ........ | |||
Other, 100 kilogs | Free... | 0.17 | ........ | ........ | |||
Sawn, less than 2 deci- meters thick : Box tree, 100 kilogs.... | 0.19 | 0.39 | ........ | ........ | |||
Other, 100 kilogs....... | 0.19 | 0.39 | ........ | ........ | |||
Fragrant wood, 100 kil. | Free... | 0.58 | ........ | ........ |
ARTICLES | ITALY | SPAIN | PORTUGAL | |||
General Tariff | Tariff in treaty with France, &c. | |||||
1 | Musical instruments........ | Organs for ch's, 100 kilogs. | $1.95 | $1.95 | Pianos each $50.00 | Harps, each $10.80 |
Others, porta- | 0.78 | 0.78 | Pianos, e'h 24.84 | |||
ble, each. or | 5 per cent | Other scientific in- strum'ts, 10 p. ct. | ||||
Pianos, each... | 1.36 | 1.36 | All not specified, 25 per cent. | |||
Other instrum'ts not enum'd, e'h. | or 5 per ct | |||||
2 | Musical instruments, strings of gut. | 100 kilogs........ | 9.75 | 9.75 | 20 per cent........ | Kilogramme . 0.54 |
3 | part metal............ | 100 kilogs........ | 9.75 | 9.75 | 20 per cent........ | Kilogramme . 0.324 |
7 | [Steel wire], less than ¼ inch in diameter, not less than No. 16, wire guage. | Wire, or manu- factures, per 100 kilogs. | 3.90 | $4.50 | Fine, 100 kilogs, $3.50. | Wire,kilog,$3.054. |
8 | Same, less than ¼ inch in diameter, less than No. 16, wire guage. | |||||
6 | Cabinet wood not sawed, 100 kil.. | 0.39 | ..... | Cabinet wood in pieces, 100 k. 0.10 In boards: 100 kilogs... 0.50 | Boards, for cabinet work, kilog. 0.162 Boards of ordinary wood, kilog. 0.02 | |
Sawed, in tables or slabs, of 1 centimeter or less thick, 100 kilogs ......... | 2.34 | 0.55 | ||||
In larger slabs, 100 kilogs...... | 0.97 | 0.55 |
BELGIUM | AUSTRIA | DENMARK | SWEDEN | NORWAY | |||
General tariff. | Tariff in treaty. | ||||||
6 per cent........ | Centner..... | $4.80 | $3.60 | Pianos, organs, accordeons, and similar, 10 p. c. | Guitars, violins, drums, trump'ts. &c., each 0.2756 | Pianos, guitars, violins, violin- cellos, contr- bassos, e. 0.273 | 1 |
Flutes, clar'n't's. &C., each 0.138 | |||||||
Pianos, e.11.025 | Flutes, clarion- ets, hautboys, &c., each 0.137 | ||||||
Others, p.$0.091 | Gr'd do., e. 16.54 | ||||||
Musical boxes, each.....0.138 | Bows for instru- ments, c. 0.054 | ||||||
Org'ns,harmoni- ums, 5 per cent. | |||||||
10 per cent........ | Of gut, cov- ered, cent'r | 24.00 | 14.40 | Pound.....0.091 | Pound.....0.138 | Pound....0.159 | 2 |
10 per cent........ | Steel wire. cen. | 2.40 | 1.92 | Pound.....0.0056 | Pound.....0.0275 | Pound....0.036 | 3 |
Others.cent'r. | 14.40 | 14.40 | |||||
Bars, leaves, or wire, 100 kilos., $0.195 | Steel wire, polish'd, & strings, centner. | 2.40 | 1.92 | Hoops, bar, rails, axletrees, wheel- tires, tubes, gas- retorts, plates, sheets, bolts,spik's, nails, wire, steel strings for instr'mts, sheets painted, pound, $0.0014. | Manufactures of steel, not pol- ished, per lb., $0.0275. | Wire, steel, and other; also, if covered, and wire cordage, pound, $0.036. | 7 |
Same, polished, p'r lb., $0.0689. | Manufacture of wire, lb., $0.109. | 8 | |||||
For building and furniture, oak beech, &c., cub. meter....0.195 Other, cubic me- mer ...... 0.58 For building and cabinet furnit're over 5 centime- ters thick, cub. meter .... 1.17 As above, of 5 centimeters th'k or less, cubic meter .... 1.76 | Wood for manufactures: | Wood, not at all worked, for fuel; oak, ebony, beach, free. Timber in ships, commercial last ......1.775 Other, cubic foot.....0.0217 | Wood, all, not manufactured : Staves, masts, spars, boards & planks, blocks for rifle stocks, handspikes,fuel willow, veneers of ¼-inch or less thick, free | Wood not manu- factured : ve- neers, planks over ½-in. thick, spokes, staves, bars, manufac- tures not speci- fied, wooden shoes, free. Vene'rs of foreign wood, ¼ inch thick or less ; also if inlaid with mother-of- pearl, lb. 0.031 | 6 | ||
Common, in trunks of 2 meter leng'h or more, in doubes and othe'r rough- ly prepared work, 100 cubic feet... | 0.388 | Free. | |||||
Foreign wood in blocks, boa'ds,posts. | Free. | Free. | |||||
Veneers, cen'r | 0.12 | 0.36 |