(0.0012 g. weight 1 c. c. air at 760 mm. at 21.5° C. (Circular 19, Table 29).) By interpolation from Table 1, Circular 375, column headed "Specific gravity 20/4° C." = Weight per gallon in air at 21.5° C. 11.658 pounds. The weight per gallon at 18.7° C., the temperature of gauging, is therefore: W2= 11.658 11.658 =11.672 pounds. Art. 763. Moisture determination.-For the determination of moisture in sugars dry approximately 4 grams in a metal dish of a diameter of 55 mm. and a height of 15 mm. Each sample shall be subjected to a temperature of 100° C. for two hours, care being exercised that the dishes are not in close proximity to the heaters. WOOL AND HAIR Art. 764. Rates of duty-Regulations authorized.Tariff act of 1930, paragraphs 1101 (a), 1102, 1103, and 1104: PAR. 1101. (a) Wools: Donskoi, Smyrna, Cordova, Valparaiso, Ecuadorean, Syrian, Aleppo, Georgian, Turkestan, Arabian, Bagdad, Persian, Sistan, East Indian, Thibetan, Chinese, Manchurian, Mongolian, Egyptian, Sudan, Cyprus, Sardinian, Pyrenean, Oporto, Iceland, Scotch Blackface, Black Spanish, Kerry, Haslock, and Welsh Mountain; similar wools without merino or English blood; all other wools of whatever blood or origin not finer than 40s; and hair of the camel; all the foregoing, in the grease or washed, 24 cents per pound of clean content; scoured, 27 cents per pound of clean content; on the skin, 22 cents per pound of clean content; sorted, or matchings, if not scoured, 25 cents per pound of clean content: Provided, That a tolerance of not more than 10 per centum of wools not finer than 44s may be allowed in each bale or package of wools imported as not finer than 40s: * * * PAR. 1102. (a) Wools, not specially provided for, not finer than 44s, in the grease or washed, 29 cents per pound of clean content; scoured, 32 cents per pound of clean content; on the skin, 27 cents per pound of clean content; sorted, or matchings, if not scoured, 30 cents per pound of clean content: Provided, That a tolerance of not more than 10 per centum of wools not finer than 46s may be allowed in each bale or package of wools imported as not finer than 44s. (b) Wools, not specially provided for, and hair of the Angora goat, Cashmere goat, alpaca, and other like animals, in the grease or washed, 34 cents per pound of clean content; scoured 37 cents per pound of clean content; on the skin, 32 cents per pound of clean content; sorted, or matchings, if not scoured, 35 cents per pound of clean content. PAR. 1103. If any bale or package contains wools, hairs, wool wastes, or wool waste material, subject to different rates of duty, the highest rate applicable to any part shall apply to the entire contents of such bale or package, except as provided in paragraphs 1101 and 1102. The provisions of paragraph 1103 are subject to the tolerance of 10 per cent provided in paragraphs 1101 and 1102. PAR. 1104. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe methods and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this schedule relating to the duties on wool and hair. Art. 765. Definitions.-Tariff act of 1930, paragraphs 1101 (b), (1) to (4): For the purposes of this schedule: (1) Wools and hair in the grease shall be considered such as are in their natural condition as shorn from the animal, and not cleansed otherwise than by shaking, willowing, or burrpicking; (2) washed wools and hair shall be considered such as have been washed, with water only, on the animal's back or on the skin, and all wool and hair, not scoured, with a higher clean yield than 77 per centum shall be considered as washed; (3) scoured wools and hair shall be considered such as have been otherwise cleansed (not including shaking, willowing, burrpicking, or carbonizing); (4) sorted wools or hair, or matchings, shall be wools and hair (other than skirtings) wherein the identity of individual fleeces has been destroyed, except that skirted fleeces shall not be considered sorted wools or hair, or matchings, unless the backs have been removed; and Art. 766. Grades of wool-Standards.-(a) Tariff act of 1930, paragraph 1101 (b) (5): 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. * (b) Tariff act of 1930, paragraph 1104: * The Secretary of the Treasury 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 as he may designate, 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 wool and hair, to which are attached data as to clean content and other pertinent facts, for the information of the trade and of customs officers. (c) Collectors of customs at the principal wool-importing ports have been furnished with official standards. When any wool provided for in paragraph 1101 or 1102 is imported at a port not supplied with official standards, a representative sample of not less than 1 pound shall be taken from each bale of the importation designated for T. Ds. 39838, 40217. Dept. Circ. No. 612, Sept. 23, 1922. T. D. 41548. examination and submitted to the C. I. E. for advice as to classification. If the volume of imports at any such port is sufficient, the collector may, upon request, be furnished with a set of official standards. Art. 767. Invoices.-Invoices covering importations of wool or hair provided for in paragraphs 1101 and 1102 should show the following detailed information: (1) If wool, the quality or grade, specifying the standard or basis used, i. e., whether United States official standard or, if commercial, whether English, South American, etc. (2) Shipper's estimate of yield of clean content in normal condition of the wool or hair covered by the invoice. (3) Classes of wool or hair, whether carpet, combing, clothing, mohair, alpaca, camels' hair, etc. (4) Condition, whether in the grease, washed, scoured, sorted (if not scoured), or on the skin. (5) Unit per se price per pound. Art. 768. Determination of clean content.-(a) On the entry or withdrawal of wool or hair on the basis of clean content under the provisions of paragraph 1101 or 1102, the importer will be required to file with the entry or withdrawal a statement showing the number of bales, the marks, grade or quality if wool (specifying the standard or basis used, i. e., whether United States official standard or, if commercial, whether English, South American, etc.), unit price and estimated shrinkage and yield, in substantially the following form: Entry Marks Grade or Weight Unit price Shrinkage Yield (b) The total estimated or actual weight of the wool or hair in its condition as imported, as well as the estimated clean content, shall be stated in the entry or withdrawal. (c) In the absence of such statement, or when such statement is obviously incorrect, the collector will take estimated duty on the full weight as the clean content. The collector shall designate for examination not less than one bale out of each lot or grade. (d) The appraising officers will follow commercial methods in determining clean content of wool or hair. (e) Appraising officers, before making final returns on wool or hair imported in the grease and dutiable on the basis of clean content, shall require the importer to file a sworn copy of the settlement basis, that is the percentage of clean content on the basis of which the wool was sold and purchased, or, if no such basis was agreed upon, a sworn statement of the buyer, showing the estimated clean content on the basis of which the wool was purchased. If such settlement basis or buyer's estimate, as the case may be, differs from the importer's statement of clean content filed with the entry or withdrawal, the matter shall be submitted to the bureau for instructions. (f) If the clean content reported by the appraiser differs T. D. 39767. from the estimate filed with the entry or withdrawal, the importer shall be immediately notified and, if he does not agree with the appraiser's finding, a representative and adequate sample of each lot as to which there is a disagreement shall be sent to a properly equipped scouring plant, there to be scoured by the four or five vat system, with water from 115 to 135° F., and with the solutions properly adapted to the particular type of wool being scoured. The sample shall then be reduced to bone-dry weight by the use of recognized standard apparatus, and 13% per cent regain added thereto as determined by the Bureau of Standards. (g) The result of the test must be reported in the form of an affidavit that the scouring has been done in accordance with the above regulations. The expense of scouring shall be borne by the importer. Art. 769. Tolerance. If there is a difference of opinion between the importer and the appraiser as to the estimated percentage of tolerance that shall apply to a certain lot of wool, one or more representative bales of the lot or lots on which there is a dispute shall be selected by agreement between the importer and the appraiser, and the wool contained in the bale or bales selected shall be sorted under Government supervision at the expense of the importer. Art. 770. Wool on the skin.-The weight of wool or hair on the skin shall be determined on the basis of the quantity obtainable by pulling. T. D. 44489. |