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container, or housing, whether imported separately or attached to any of the foregoing movements, mechanisms, devices, or instruments, shall have stamped, cut, engraved, or die sunk, conspicuously and indelibly on the back thereof, the name of the country of manufacture.

(f) For the purposes of subparagraph (a) of this paragraph an article shall be considered to be completely assembled, if disassembled only to such extent as may be by regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury as necessary for safety in transportation.

(g) An article required by this paragraph to be marked shall be denied entry unless marked in exact conformity with the requirements of this paragraph.

(h) Taximeters and parts thereof, finished or unfinished, 85 per centum ad valorem. PAR. 369. Automobiles, automobile bodies, automobile chassis, motor cycles, and parts of the foregoing, not including tires, all [of] the foregoing whether finished or unfinished, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That if any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on any article specified in this paragraph, when imported from the United States, in excess of the duty herein provided, there shall be imposed upon such article, when imported either directly or indirectly from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, a duty equal to that imposed by such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government on such article imported from the United States, but in no case shall such duty exceed 50 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 370. Airplanes, hydroplanes, motor boats, and parts of the foregoing, 30 per centum ad valorem. The term "motor boat," when used in this Act, includes a yacht or pleasure boat, regardless of length or tonnage, whether sail, steam, or motor propelled, owned by a resident of the United States or brought into the United States for sale or charter to a resident thereof, whether or not such yacht or boat is brought into the United States under its own power, but does not include a yacht or boat used or intended to be used in trade or commerce, nor a yacht or boat built, or for the building of which a contract was entered into, prior to December 1, 1927.

PAR. 371. Bicycles, and parts thereof, not including tires, 30 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That if any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government imposes a duty on any article specified in this paragraph, when imported from the United States, in excess of the duty herein provided, there shall be imposed upon such article, when imported either directly or indirectly from such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government, a duty equal to that imposed by such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government on such article imported from the United States, but in no case shall such duty exceed 50 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 372. Reciprocating [Steam] steam engines and steam locomotives, 15 per centum ad valorem; sewing machines, [and parts thereof,] not specially provided for, valued at not more than $75 each, 15 per centum ad valorem; valued at more than $75 each, 30 per centum ad valorem; steam turbines, 30 per centum ad valorem; cash registers, [and parts thereof,] 25 per centum ad valorem; printing presses, not specially provided for, lawn mowers, and machine tools [and parts of machine tools, 30 per centum ad valorem; embroidery machines, including shuttles for sewing and embroidery machines, lace-making machines, machines for making lace curtains, nets and nettings, 30 per centum ad valorem; knitting, braiding, lace braiding, and insulating machines, and all other similar textile machinery [or parts thereof], finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, 40 per centum ad valorem; all other textile machinery [or parts thereof], finished or unfinished, not specially provided for. 35 per centum ad valorem; cream separators valued at more than $50 each, and other centrifugal machines for the separation of liquids or liquids and solids, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem; combined adding and typewriting machines, 30 per centum ad valorem; apparatus for the generation of acetylene gas from calcium carbide, 20 per centum ad valorem; machines for cutting or hobbing gears, 40 per centum ad valorem; punches, shears, and bar cutters, intended for use in fabricating structural or other rolled iron or steel shapes, 40 per centum ad valorem; all other machines [or parts thereof], finished or unfinished, not specially provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That parts, wholly or in chief value of metal, of any of the foregoing, shall be dutiable at the same rate of duty as the articles of which they are parts: Provided further, That machine tools as used in this paragraph shall be held to mean any machine operating other than by hand power which employs a tool for work on metal.

PAR. 373. Shovels, spades, scoops, forks, hoes, rakes, scythes, sickles, grass hooks, corn knives, and drainage tools, and parts thereof, composed wholly or in chief value of [iron, steel, lead, copper, brass, nickel, aluminum, or other] metal, whether partly or wholly manufactured, 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 374. Aluminum, aluminum scrap, and alloys [of any kind] (except those provided for in paragraph 302) in which aluminum is the component material of chief value, in crude form, 5 cents per pound; in coils, plates, sheets, bars, rods, circles, disks, blanks, strips, rectangles, and squares, 9 cents per pound. PAR. 375. Metallic magnesium and metallic magnesium scrap, 40 cents per pound; magnesium alloys, powder, sheets, ribbons, tubing, wire, and all other articles, wares, or manufactures of magnesium, not specially provided for, 40 cents per pound on the metallic magnesium content and 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 376. Antimony, as regulus or metal, 2 cents per pound; needle or liquated antimony, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound.

PAR. 377. Bismuth, 72 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 378. Cadmium, 15 cents per pound.

PAR. 379. Metallic arsenic, 6 cents per pound.

PAR. 380. German silver, or nickel silver, unmanufactured, 20 per centum ad valorem; nickel silver sheets, strips, rods, and wire, 30 per centum ad valorem. PAR. 381. Copper in rolls, rods, or sheets, 22 cents per pound; copper engravers' plates, not ground, and seamless copper tubes and tubing, 7 cents per pound; copper engravers' plates, ground, and brazed copper tubes, 11 cents per pound; brass rods, sheet brass, brass plates, bars, and strips, Muntz or yellow metal sheets, sheathing, bolts, piston rods, and shafting, 4 cents per pound; seamless brass tubes and tubing, 8 cents per pound; brazed brass tubes, brass angles and channels, 12 cents per pound; bronze rods and sheets, 4 cents per pound; bronze tubes, 8 cents per pound

PAR. 382. [Aluminum or tin](a) Tin foil less than six one-thousandths of [an] one inch in thickness, 35 per centum ad valorem; aluminum foil less than six one-thousandths of one inch in thickness, 40 per centum ad valorem; bronze powder nol of aluminum, 14 cents per pound; aluminum bronze powder, powdered foil, powdered tin, [brocades,] flitters, and metallics, manufactured in whole or in part, 12 cents per pound; bronze, or Dutch metal, or aluminum, in leaf, 6 cents per one hundred [leaves.] leaves; bronze powder, or Dutch metal powder, or aluminum powder, in leaf, 6 cents per one hundred leaves and 25 per centum ad valorem. The foregoing [rate applies] rates on leaf apply to leaf not exceeding in size the equivalent of five and one-half by five and one-half inches; additional duties in the same proportion shall be assessed on leaf exceeding in size said equivalent. (b) Stamping and embossing materials of bronze powder, or Dutch metal powder, or aluminum powder, mounted on paper or equivalent backing, and releasable from the backing by means of heat and pressure, one-half of 1 cent per one hundred square inches.

PAR. 383. (a) Gold leaf, unmounted, [55] 821⁄2 cents per one hundred leaves. The foregoing rate applies to leaf not exceeding in size the equivalent of three and three-eighths by three and three-eighths inches; additional duties in the same proportion shall be assessed on leaf exceeding in size said equivalent. Gold leaf, mounted on paper or equivalent backing, 63⁄4 cents per one hundred square inches and 25 per centum ad valorem.

[PAR. 384.] (b) Silver leaf, 5 cents per one hundred leaves.

PAR. [1437] 384. Cabinet locks, not of pin tumbler or cylinder construction, not over one and one-half inches in width, 70 cents per dozen; over one and one-half and not over two and one-half inches in width, $1 per dozen; over two and one-half inches in width, $1.50 per dozen; padlocks, not of pin tumbler or cylinder construction, not over one and one-half inches in width, 35 cents per dozen; over one and one-half and not over two and one-half inches in width, 50 cents per dozen; over two and one-half inches in width, 75 cents per dozen; padlocks of pin tumbler or cylinder construction, not over one and one-half inches in width, $1 per dozen; over one and one-half and not over two and one-half inches in width, $1.50 per dozen; over two and one-half inches in width, $2 per dozen; all other locks or latches of pin tumbler or cylinder construction, $2 per dozen; and in addition thereto, on all the foregoing, 20 per centum ad valorem. PAR. 385. Tinsel wire, made wholly or in chief value of gold, silver, or other metal, 6 cents per pound and [10] 20 per centum ad valorem; lame or lahn, made wholly or in chief value of gold, silver, or other metal, 6 cents per pound and [20] 30 per centum ad valorem; bullions and metal threads made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame or lahn, 6 cents per pound and [35] 45 per centum ad valorem; beltings [, toys,] and other articles made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, metal thread, lame or lahn, or of tinsel wire, lame or lahn and india rubber, bullions, or metal threads, not specially provided for, [45] 55 per centum ad valorem; woven fabrics, ribbons, fringes, and tassels, made wholly or in chief value of any of the foregoing, [55] 65 per centum ad valorem.

Par 386. Quicksilver 25 cents per pound: Provided. That the flasks, bottles, xder vessels in which quicksilver is imported shall be subject to the same ay of dicy as they would be subjected to if imported empty.

PAR 387 Aides, fulminates, fulminating powder, and other like articles 109 Specially provided for, 121⁄2 cents per pound.]

38". Plominating or lighting fixtures, lamps, lamp bases, candelabra, and zan escoes, any of the foregoing and parts thereof, finished or unfinished, not speciely provided for, if wholly or in chief value of base metal or alloy, 50 per ad valorem; if wholly or in chief value of, or plated with, platinum, gold, or st, 50 per centum ad valorem.

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PAR 388. Dynamite and other high explosives, put up in sticks, cartridges, ther forms, suitable for blasting, 14 cents per pound.]

Ct. 388. Phosphor-copper or phosphorus-copper, 3 cents per pound. PAR. 389. New types, [20] 30 per centum ad valorem.

Po 390, Nickel oxide, 1 cent per pound; nickel, and [nickel alloy of any kind】 alloys (except those provided for in paragraph 302 or 380) in which nickel is the component material of chief value, in pigs or ingots, shot, cubes, grains, cathodes, or similar forms, 3 cents per pound; in bars, rods, plates, sheets, strips, strands, castings, wire, tubes, tubing, anodes, or electrodes, 25 per centum ad sorem; and in addition thereto, on all [of] the foregoing, if cold rolled, cold drawn, or cold worked, 10 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 391. Bottle caps of metal, collapsible tubes, and sprinkler tops, if not decorated, colored, waxed, lacquered, enameled, lithographed, electroplated, or embossed in color, 30 per centum ad valorem: if decorated, colored, waxed, lacquered, enameled, lithographed, electroplated, or embossed in color, 45 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 392. Lead-bearing [ores] ores, flue dust, and mattes of all kinds, 11⁄2 cents per pound on the lead contained therein: Provided, That such duty shall not be applied to the lead contained in copper, gold, or silver ores, or copper mattes, unless actually recovered: Provided further, That on all importations of leadbearing ores and mattes of all kinds the duties shall be estimated at the port of entry and a bond given in double the amount of such estimated duties for the transportation of the ores or mattes by common carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly equipped sampling or smelting establishments, whether designated as bonded warehouses or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores or mattes at such establishments they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus obtained to a Government assayer, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make a proper assay of the sample and report the result to the proper customs officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph.

PAR. 393. Lead bullion or base bullion, lead in pigs and bars, lead dross, reclaimed lead, scrap lead, antimonial lead, antimonial scrap lead, type metal, Babbitt metal, solder, all alloys or combinations of lead not specially provided for, 2 cents per pound on the lead contained therein; lead in sheets, pipe, shot, glazier's lead, and lead wire, 23 cents per pound.

PAR. 394. Zinc-bearing ore of all kinds, containing less than 10 per centum of zinc, shall be admitted free of duty; containing 10 per centum or more of zinc and less than 20 per centum, one-half of 1 cent per pound on the zinc contained therein; containing 20 per centum or more of zinc and less than 25 per centum, 1 cent per pound on the zinc contained therein; containing 25 per centum of zinc, or more, 11⁄2 cents per pound on the zine contained therein: Provided, That such duties shall not be applied to the zinc contained in lead or copper ores unless actually recovered: Provided further, That on all importations of zincbearing ores the duties shall be estimated at the port of entry, and a bond given in double the amount of such estimated duties for the transportation of the ores by common carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly equipped sampling or smelting establishments, whether designated as bonded warehouses or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores at such establishments they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus obtained to a Government assayer, designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make a proper assay of the sample and report the result to the proper customs officers, and the import entries shall be liquidated thereon. And the Secretary of the

Treasury is authorized to make all necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this paragraph.

PAR. 395. Zinc in blocks, pigs, or slabs, and zinc dust, 134 cents per pound; in sheets, 2 cents per pound; in sheets coated or plated with nickel or other metal (except gold, silver, or platinum), or solutions, 24 cents per pound; old and worn-out zinc, fit only to be remanufactured, zinc dross, and zinc skimmings, 11⁄2 cents per pound.

PAR. 396. Print rollers, of whatever material composed, with raised patterns of brass or brass and felt, finished or unfinished, used for printing, stamping, or cutting designs, 72 per centum ad valorem; embossing rollers and print [blocks] blocks, and print rollers not specially provided for, of whatever material composed, used [in] for printing, stamping, or cutting designs [for wall or crêpe paper, linoleum, oilcloth, or other material, not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief value of iron, steel, copper, brass, or any other metal], 60 per centum ad [valorem.] valorem: Provided, That the foregoing rates shall apply whether or not the articles are imported separately, or as parts of machines.

[PAR. 397. Cylindrical steel rolls ground and polished, valued at 25 cents per pound or over, 25 per centum ad valorem.]

PAR. 397. Drills (including breast drills), reamers, taps, dies, bits, gimlets, gimletbits, countersinks, planes, chisels, gouges, and other cutting tools; pipe tools, wrenches, spanners, screwdrivers, bit braces, vises, and hammers; calipers, rules, and micrometers; all the foregoing, if hand tools not provided for in paragraph 352, and parts thereof, wholly or in chief value of metal, not specially provided for, 50 per centum ad valorem.

[PAR. 398. Twist drills, reamers, milling cutters, taps, dies, and metalcutting tools of all descriptions, not specially provided for, containing more than six-tenths of 1 per centum of tungsten or molybdenum, 60 per centum ad valorem.]

PAR. [399] 398. Articles or wares not specially provided for, if composed wholly or in chief value of platinum, gold, or silver, and articles or wares plated with platinum, gold, or silver, or colored with gold lacquer, whether partly or wholly manufactured, [60] 65 per centum ad valorem; if composed wholly or in chief value of iron, steel, lead, copper, brass, nickel, pewter, zinc, aluminum, or other metal, but not plated with platinum, gold, or silver, or colored with gold lacquer, whether partly or wholly manufactured, [40] 50 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. [400] 399. No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any article wholly or partly manufactured of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron or steel.

SCHEDULE 4.-WOOD AND MANUFACTURES OF

REPORT BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE

JAMES A. FREAR, Chairman
LINDLEY H. HADLEY

RICHARD S. ALDRICH

Your committee made few changes in the existing wood schedule. Several transfers from one paragraph to another have been made for administrative purposes that do not involve changes in rates.

With limited exceptions, lumber remains on the free list. Cedar lumber and shingles have been given an ad valorem duty of 25 per cent under provisions of paragraph 401 for reasons hereafter stated.

The provision or restriction affecting importation of fir, cedar, and Western hemlock logs has been eliminated, leaving a tariff of $1 per thousand feet board measure without restriction. This action was based upon the discrimination that results in ownership of Canadian imported logs, some of which may be subject to the restriction contained in the proviso; also, that logs exported only upon permits given when a Canadian surplus exists injuriously depress the American market. The competition is exceedingly severe between loggers in the State of Washington and those in Canada, but no change in rate is made beyond striking out the restriction that affected about half the imports in 1928.

MAPLE AND BIRCH LUMBER

Paragraph 402 provides for an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent on maple and birch lumber. Many appearances were made before the committee in the hearings urging a 25 per cent ad valorem duty. It was based not only on vigorous competition across the border but in addition it was shown that Canadian rail rates give to their dealers in some cases a $5 preferential rail rate over American rail rates from our mills to the Detroit, New York, and New England markets.

Competition holds down the market in Chicago and elsewhere, and in order to permit American manufacturers of these two hard woods to compete in the markets named, a tariff of 15 per cent ad valorem, about one-half that requested, is believed sufficient to meet the freight differential. Otherwise this lumber has the same cost of production status as other lumber imported from Canada.

CEDAR LUMBER

The item of cedar lumber in paragraph 401 was given a 25 per cent ad valorem duty because the total amount of red cedar lumber, which is the species chiefly imported, is between 125,000,000 and 150,000,000 feet per year.

United States statistics do not segregate red cedar from other imports, but Canadian statistics show shipments of cedar planks and boards to the United States for the year ending March 31, 1927, to have been 56,020,000 feet and for the year ending March 31, 1928, 52,190,000 feet. These imports are approximately one-third of the red-cedar production in this country, present hard competition, and warrant a 25 per cent ad valorem duty.

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