Mr. MCINTIRE. It may be put into the record, and whether or not it is on an ad valorem basis, or just what the basis is on which the tariff is assessed. Mr. IMMASCHE. There are two kinds of tariff. Raw wool carries a specific duty, and that is 251⁄2 cents a pound clean on most wools. Manufactured articles coming in carry both a specific and ad valorem rates of duty. I do not have those rates, but we would be glad to get them for you. (The data referred to above are as follows:) The rates of duty which apply to imports of wool and wool manufactures are set forth in Schedule 11 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. Following is a copy of that schedule taken from United States Import Duties (1952) as published by the U. S. Tariff Commission, Miscellaneous Series TC 1.10: Im7/4/952, with changes as indicated by Supplements I, II, III, and IV through May 25, 1957. in "Full rate" column.-Except in a very few specially identified instances, the rates shown in this column are those specified in the Tariff Act of 1930 or the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, unless identified by an asterisk (*), which case the rate is one established pursuant to section 336 of the Tariff Act of 1930. The full rates apply to products of the following countries or areas, whether imported directly or indirectly therefrom, as a result of actions taken by the President under section 5 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, notifications of which were published in the Treasury Decisions respectively indicated. China (any part of which may be under Communist domination or control) 52788 Hungary. 53012 Indochina (any part of Cambodia, Laos, or Vietnam which may be under 52788 Korea (any part which may be under Communist domination or control)__ 52788 Kurile Islands__ 52788 If a product of any foreign country or area not named or described in the preceding paragraph, except the Philippine Republic, is classifiable under a description for which no rate is specified in the "Reduced rate" column, such product also is subject to the rate of duty specified for its description in the "Full rate" column. "Reduced rate" column.-The rates in this column are the reduced rates established pursuant to trade agreements entered into under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. They apply to products of any foreign country or area, except the Philippine Republic, which is not named or described in the above list. (b) Aleppo, Arabian, Bagdad, Black Spanish, Chinese, Cordova, Cyprus, Donskoi, East Indian, Ecuadorean, Egyptian, Georgian, Haslock, Iceland, Kerry, Manchurian, Mongolian, Oporto, Persian, Pyrenean, Sardinian, Scotch Blackface, Sistan, Smyrna, Sudan, Syrian, Thibetan, Turkestan, Valparaiso, and Welsh Mountain wools; similar wools without merino or English blood; and other wools of whatever blood or origin not finer than 40s; all the foregoing: In the grease or washed.. On the skin. Scoured. Sorted, or matchings, not scoured. Hair of the camel: In the grease or washed. On the skin. Scoured.. Sorted, or matchings, not scoured. Provided, That a tolerance of not over 10% of wools not finer than 44s may be allowed in each bale or package of wools imported as not finer than 40s. Any of the foregoing may be entered or withdrawn from warehouse without the payment of duty by a dealer, manufacturer, or processor upon the filing of bond to insure that any hair or wool entered or withdrawn thereunder shall be used only in the manufacture of camel's hair belting, felt or knit boots, floor coverings, heavy fulled lumbermen's socks, or press cloth. A dealer, manufacturer, or processor may be relieved of liability under his bond with respect to any hair or wool so entered or withdrawn which is transferred in its imported or any other form to another dealer, manufacturer, or processor who has filed a bond to insure that the merchandise so transferred shall be used only in the manufacture of the above-enumerated articles. If any hair or wool so entered, withdrawn, or transferred under bond is used or transferred for use in its imported or any other form in any manner otherwise than in the manufacture of the articles enumerated above, duty shall be levied, collected, and paid on the merchandise so used or transferred in violation of the bond as follows: White soft wastes and white threads resulting in the usual course of manufacture of such enumerated articles. Noils resulting in the usual course of manufacture of such enumerated articles. Other merchandise resulting in the usual course of manufacture of such enumerated articles which cannot be used (with or without further preparation) in the usual course of manufacture of such enumerated articles, or which is destroyed or exported. Hair or wool other than a waste or byproduct described in any of the three foregoing subdivisions. Par. SCHEDULE 11.-Wool and manufactures of-Continued Description 1101(b) (c) (2) (3) (4) (5) Such duties shall be paid by the dealer, manufacturer, or processor whose bond is charged with the hair or wool at the time of such use or transfer; but such duties shall not be levied or collected on any merchandise which is destroyed or exported. When any hair or wool which has been entered or withdrawn under bond as provided for in this subparagraph is used or transferred for use, in its imported or any other form, otherwise than in the manufacture of the aboveenumerated articles and prior to such use or transfer there shall have been combined or mixed with such hair or wool any other merchandise, the whole of the combination or mixture shall be presumed to be composed of hair or wool entered or withdrawn under bond, as provided for in this subparagraph, unless the dealer, manufacturer, or processor liable for the payment of the duties shall establish the quantity of bonded hair or wool in such combination or mixture. Every dealer, manufacturer, or processor who has given a bond pursuant to the provisions of this subparagraph shall report any transfer or use of merchandise in viclation of the terms of his bond, within 30 days after such transfer or use, to the collector of customs in whose district the bond is filed; and for failure to so report such dealer, manufacturer, or processor shall be liable to a penalty equal to the value of the merchandise so transferred or used at the time and place of such transfer or use. Such penalty shall be in addition to the duties above provided for. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to prescribe such regulations and the amounts, conditions, and forms of such bonds as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this subparagraph. For the purposes of this schedule: Hair and wools in the grease shall be considered such as are in their natural condition as shorn from the animal, and not cleaned otherwise than by burr-picking, shaking, or willowing: washed hair and wools shall be considered such as have been washed, with water only, on the animal's back or on the skin, and all hair and wool, not scoured, with a higher clean yield than 77% shall be considered as washed; scoured hair and wools shall be considered such as have been otherwise cleaned (not including burr-picking, carbonizing, shaking, or willowing); sorted hair or wools, or matchings, shall be hair and wools (other than skirtings) wherein the identification of individual fleeces has been destroyed, except that skirted fleeces shall not be considered sorted hair or wools, or matchings, unless the backs have been removed; and the Official Standards of the United States for grades of wool as established by the Secretary of Agriculture on June 18, 1926, pursuant to law, shall be the standards for determining the grade of wools. 'As used throughout paragraph 1102, the term "lb." means pound of clean content. NOTE.-By a proclamation of the President (TD 54212) the ad valorem part of the rate shown in the "Reduced rate" column of paragraph 1108 and paragraph 1109 (a) is applicable during each calendar year beginning January 1 in 1957 and in subsequent years, only to a quantity by weight of fabrics described in th se paragraphs which the President shall have found to be not less than 5 percent of the average annual production in the United States during the three immediately preceding calendar years of fabrics similar to such fabrics. This "tariff rate" quota will be published in the Federal Register. The ad valorem part of the duty applicable to overquota fabrics entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption is 45 percent. Articles provided for in the proviso to paragraph 1111, and articles provided for in paragraph 1122, of the Tariff Act of 1930. are not counted in the quota above, but are subject to the increased ad valorem duty when entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the quota for the period is filled. 1103 1104 1105 (a) (b) Hair n. s. p. f. of animals like the alpaca, Angora goat, or Cashmere goat (including hair of the Angora rabbit): In the grease or washed. On the skin.. Scoured. Sorted, or matchings, not scoured.. If any bale or package contains hairs, wools, wool wastes, or wool waste material subject to different rates of duty, the entire contents of such bale or package, except as specified in the provisos to paragraphs 1101 (a) and 1102 (a), shall be subject to. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe methods and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this schedule 11 relating to the duties on hair and wool. He is further authorized and directed to procure from the Secretary of Agriculture and deposit in such customhouses and other places, in the United States or elsewhere, sets of the Official Standards of the United States for grades of wool. He is further authorized to display, in the customhouses of the United States or elsewhere, numbered, but not otherwise identifiable, samples of imported hair and wool to which are attached data as to clean content and other pertinent facts, for the information of the trade and of customs officers. Hair and wool wastes: Burr or card waste: Carbonized. Not carbonized. Flocks.. Garnetted waste.. Mungo.. 10¢ per lb. Noils: Carbonized. Not carbonized.. 236 per lb. 12¢ per lb. Ring waste, roving waste, slubbing 37¢ per lb. 28¢ per lb. waste, and top waste. 14¢ per lb. Thread or yarn waste... Wool rags.. 18¢ per lb. 9 per lb. Wool wastes nspf. 24¢ per lb. 9¢ per lb. 37¢ per lb. and 20% ad val. 2734 per lb. and 64% ad val. 1106 1107 Hair and wool of the kinds provided for in this schedule 11, if carbonized or advanced in any manner beyond the scoured or washed condition, including tops, but not further advanced than roving. Yarn wholly or in chief value of wool: Wholly or in chief value of Angora Over $1 but not over $1.50. Over $1.50.. Other, valued per pound- Over $1 but not over $1.50. Par. No. 1108 1109 (a) (b) 1110 1111 SCHEDULE 11.—Wool and manufactures of—Continued Description Woven fabrics weighing not over 4 ounces per square yard, wholly or in chief value of wool: With warp wholly of cotton or other vegetable fiber, valued per poundNot over $1.... Over $1 but not over $1.50. Over $1.50... Other, valued per poundNot over $1.25. Over $1.25 but not over $2. Over $2.. Woven fabrics weighing over 4 ounces per square yard, wholly or in chief value of wool: Green billiard cloths in the piece, weighing over 11 but not over 15 Other, valued per pound- Over $1.25 but not over $2. Over $2.. Belts, blankets, felts, jackets, or other articles of machine clothing, for papermaking, printing, or other machines, wholly or in chief value of wool, woven as units or in the piece, finished or unfinished. Pile fabrics wholly or in chief value of wool, whether or not the pile covers the entire surface, and all finished or unfinished articles made or cut from such fabrics; all the foregoing: If the pile is partly cut.. If the pile is wholly cut or wholly uncut. Blankets and similar articles (including automobile and carriage robes and steamer rugs), made as units or in the piece, finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of wool, not over 3 yards long, and valued per pound Not over $1. |