JAPANESE STATUTORY TARIFF
IMPERIAL ORDINANCE
We hereby sanction the rates of specific duties to be levied on articles of import, and order the same to be promulgated.
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IMPERIAL SIGN MANUAL AND SEAL.
September 24th, 1898.
MATSUDA MASAHISA,
Minister of Finance.
IMPERIAL DECREE No. 220
In accordance with Art. III of the Revised Customs Law, specific duties will be levied on the following articles of import at the rates therein mentioned, on and after the 1st January, 1899 :---
ARTICLES OF IMPORT ON WHICH SPECIFIC DUTIES
WILL BE LEVIED
*
1,000
...
100 kin...
kin... .065
100 kin... 1.849
712 tins contain-、
ing b. each.
ferent weights
in proportion to
this rate.
a. Crude
+++
100 kin... 100 kin... 1.370
BEVERAGES AND COMESTIBLES.
No. in the Statutory Tariff 33 Butter 34 Cheese
...
•
...
+
35 Coffee (seed)... 37 Eggs, fresh ... 38
Wheat-flour...
40 Hams and Bacon
41 Meat, fresh (mutton).....
Specific Per Duty.
Yeu.
42 Milk, condensed or Tius having dif-
dessicated
44 Salt (sea or rock):
No. in the Statutory Tariff.
69 Alcohol... 70 Alum
83 Cinchonine (muriate or
sulphate of) Cinnabar (hydrargyri sulphuretum rubrum).......
Specific
Per
Duty.
Yen,
...
kin...
.036
kin... .086 kin... .054 kin... .084
-
***
100 kin...
.198
74
1.115
75
Biakujutsu (adix - tractylis ovata or alta) Bismuth subnitrate
100 kin...
.877
kin... .206
.465
77
Borax (Sodii biboras)...
100 kin...
1.233
73
Camphor, Borneo, and
Blumea or Ngai ...
kin... .377
79
Cassia, or cinnamon bark
100 kin...
.723
80
Cassia, or cinnamon oil
kin...
.202
.371
81
Cataria, lead of
100 kin...
539
$2 Cinchona bark
...
100 kin... 1.73%
kin... .200
.083
84
100 kin...
.876
100 kin... 1.292
100 kin... .513
100 kin... .062
knit:-
12 pieces.. 1.410
12 pieces.. 2.543
12 pieces.. 1.812 MEDICINES.
45
b. Refined...
Saltfish
46 Saltmeat (Beef or Pork
in casks)
47 Sekikuasai (gelidium cor-
neum)
48 Tea
*
CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES.
63 Undershirts and Drawers,
136
a. Of Cotton
b. Of Wool
c. Of Wool and Cotton DRUGS, CHEMICALS, AND
Boracic acid...
60 Acidium Carbolicum (in
crystals)
***
67 Acidium salicylicum (in
crystals and powdered) 68 Acidium Tartaricum...
100 kin... 2.038
kin... .03
kin... .157
kin... 9973
99 Gum olibanum 100 Hops 101 Iodoform
***
102 Ipecac (radix ipecacu-
anha)
Digitized by Google
kin...
.511
100 kin... 36.620
kin... .096
88
89
91
85 Cloves (caryophyllus)... Cocaine hydrochloride... Colombo(radix calumba) Cutch and Gambier (ex- tractum catechu nigrum
100 kiu... 1.385
kin... 12.983
100 kin... .517
and extractum terra Ja-
ponica or catechu palli- dum)
92
Gentian (radix gentiana)
100 kin... .927 100 kin... 1.364
94
Glycerine
...
kin... .036
95
96
Gum Arabic, or acacia... Gum benzoin, or benzoi-
100 kin... 1.307
nun
***
100 kin... 1.12 100 kin...
++
* 4 4
.560 kin... .058
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