Tonnage dues. Sailing vessels, seagoing.. ..per ton burden 100 cubic feet.. $0.167 per ton burden 100 cubic feet.. Steam vessels, seagoing, effecting a regular service between the mother country and the transmarine provinces.. ..per ton.. Coasting vessels of every transmarine province, but only once every year, reckoned from the day of payment.. ..per ton.. .054 .027 . 167 The following are exempt from tonnage dues: Men-of-war; merchant vessels, in virtue of a contract, international treaties, or special laws, shall be exempt from this duty; vessels employed exclusively in fishery; merchant vessels forced through stress of weather or accident to enter any port of the transmarine provinces. 5. PORTUGUESE KONGO. 1. All products imported into the western basin of the Kongo shall be subject to a duty of 6 per cent ad valorem, with the exception of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, and salt, which shall pay 10 per cent. Alcoholic spirits are reserved.' 2. Vessels and boats, steam engines, mechanical apparatus for industrial or agricultural purposes, and tools for industrial or agricultural use shall be free from the payment of duty during a period of four years from the date of the application of this tariff, after which period a duty of 3 per cent ad valorem may be levied on such goods. 3. Locomotives, railway carriages, and railway material shall be free from the payment of import duty during the period necessary for the construction of the lines for which they are intended and until the day when such lines are opened for traffic. After that date a duty of 3 per cent may be levied thereon. 4. Scientific and mathematical instruments, as well as requisites for religious purposes, clothing and personal effects of travelers and settlers in the district, shall be free from the payment of import duty. 5. The export duties to be levied in the Portuguese Kongo district are stipulated in the following table: NOTE.-The present tariff shall not enter into force before the Kongo Free State has adopted a similar tariff. FRANCISCO JOAQUIM FERREIRA DO AMARAL. PALACE, April 16, 1892. 1 According to and in execution of Article XCII of the general act of the Brussels Conference, the importation into Portuguese Kongo of alcoholic beverages at 50° C. shall, in virtue of a decree dated August 3, 1892, be subject to a duty of 2,700 reis per hectoliter. This duty does not exclude the license dues collected on establishments selling alcoholic beverages. * Kilogram 2.2046 pounds; 1,000 reis (milreis) : $1.08. This duty represents 10 per cent of 72,000 reis, the average value of this product. 4 These duties represent 10 per cent of the average value of the different kinds of ivory, i. e., 180,000, 288,000, and 378,000 reis. See International Customs Journal, No. 3 (Kongo Free State), third supplement. Accessories and detached parts for vehicles when of national origin; animals, living; books, printed; buildings of iron, or of iron combined with other materials, to be used as dwelling houses or for indus trial or agricultural purposes; casks, fitted together or not, when of national origin; coal; fishing nets of national origin; foreign gold coin; ice; manioc flour; mineral waters; plants and fruits, fresh; Portuguese coin imported from Portuguese ports: pulse; sackcloth, packing cloth, and the like, of linen or similar material or of cotton, and sacks made of such materials, of national origin; sewing machines; stoves; tiles, bricks, slate, and building stone of national origin; twine for fishing nets, when of national origin; vehicles of any kind, complete or in pieces, when of national origin; vessels, sailing or steam, of a tonnage measurement superior to 200 cubic meters, with their rigging, when of Portuguese nationality; wagons, wagonettes, locomotives, and carriages for railways, and rails. Imports prohibited. Artillery material, except imported for account of the State. Portuguese money proceeding from foreign ports. Foreign copper or silver money. Foreign goods bearing trade or manufacturers' marks contrary to the dispositions of the law of June Steam vessels, seagoing per ton Steam vessels effecting a regular service between Portugal and the transmarine provinces, Coasting vessels of each transmarine province, but only once a year, reckoned from date of payment .per ton (100 cubic feet).. $0.162 .054 .027 per ton.. . 162 SPANISH WEST AFRICA. FERNANDO PO. ART. 1. Products of Spain imported in Spanish vessels are exempt from duty, with the exception of arms, ammunition, alcoholic beverages, and products enumerated in articles 2 and 3. ART. 2. Only the following articles are subject to duties: The ad valorem duties shall be converted into specific duties by taking for a basiз the average value of the goods at Fernando Po, increased by all the expenses incurred up to the place of destination. This calculation shall be effected by the "junta de auditoriades," in concurrence with the advice of the council of notables of the locality, and such merchants as might be deemed proper to consult, after having been approved by the governor-general with the sanction of the minister of finance. ART. 3. Foreign coal shall pay 1 peso (19.3 cents) per ton. Articles not enumerated shall be exempt from duty. ART. 4. The following products are subject to export duties; all other exports are free of duty: Palm oil, for Spain, 6 per cent; for foreign countries, 8 per cent. Cacao, for Spain, 5 per cent; for foreign countries, 8 per cent. ART. 5. In case of doubt as to the application of the tariff, the general customs ordinances of the Peninsula shall, in so far as applicable, be adopted as supplementary legislation. ART. 6. The shipping, discharging, and passenger charges are repealed. ART. 7. The port and bill of health charges shall be regulated by the general customs ordinances. ART. 8. The management and collection of these accessory taxes shall be effected by the council of notables, and one-third of the receipts shall be appropriated to said council. ART. 9. These accessory taxes shall be collected in the port of San Isabel, the only officially recognized port in Fernando Po and its dependencies, with the exception of the port of Elobey, where merchants are obliged to pay a special license. ART. 10. Arms, gunpowder, and ammunition must, as heretofore, be deposited on the pontoon Ferrolano, in virtue of the decision of junta de autoriades. This deposit shall be effected for the account, risk, and under the responsibility of the importer, and no kind of imported arm or ammunition may be withdrawn from the public warehouse without the previous permission from the Colonial Government, as stipulated in article 9 of the general act of the Brussels conference, which prohibits within the colony the establishment of private warehouses. SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN CUSTOMS UNION. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Transkei, Geleakaland, Tembaland, (including Emigrants Tembaland and Boonvanland) District of St. Johns, Pondoland, East and West, Griqualand East, and Waltisch Bay. (b) Roasted, ground, and mixed.... 13. Cocoa and chocolate, plain, unsweetened.... 15. Condensed and desiccated milk or cream.. NOTE. By a special provision the follow- 20. Fish, cured, dried, pickled, preserved, pressed, or smoked, not being of South African catching. 21. Fodder, chaff, hay, lucerne, cut hay and other fodder not otherwise described, but not including bran. 0 0 3 .0608 do Per 100 pounds 0 0 .do 0 6 016 0 C 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 18 9 002 .0405 . 1217 3 .0608 0 16 8 4.0538 3811209 1.6208 4.0538 .0203 .0203 .0405 .73 4.5421 As printed in the Cape of Good Hope Government Gazette. Reduced to United States equivalents in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce. |