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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MARCH, 1861. Tariff annexed to the Convention concluded on the 12th October, 1860, between Great Britain and France.
IRON:
Description of Articles.
MÉTALS.
Rates of Import Duties.
1860.
1864.
Fr.
C.
Fr.
C.
Ore of.....
Free
Free
Filings, slag and dross, from the forge
12
Pig and fragments of old east iron
Purified cast, called “mazée,” and old broken wrought iron........
Crude, in lumps or prisms, not freed from the dross...
22 3
3
5
333
2 50 100 kil.
25
11
00
##
220
4
Bars, square, round, or flat; rails of all shapes and dimensions; angle and
SRG
00
100 kil
75
60
""
Tiron; and wire, with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned..
7
00
6 00
""
Hoops, of the thickness of 1 millimètre or less.
Sheet, rolled or hammered, excceding 1 millimètre in thickness...
8
50
7
In plates weighing 200 kilos, or less, and of which the breadth does not exceed 1 mètre 20 centimètres, nor the length 4 mètres 50 centimètres..... In plates exceeding 200 kilogrammes in weight or 1 metre 20 centimètres in
breadth, or 4 mètres 50 centimètres in length
50
23
10
9
13 00
385
50
A
880
7
50
11
10 00
Sheet, thin, and black iron, in plates of 1 millimètre or less in thickness..
(N.B. Thin sheet and black iron in flat plates, cut out or trimmed in any
way, to pay one-tenth more than rectangular plates.)
Sheets, tinned, coppered, covered with zine or lead
Wire, not excceding 5th millimètres in diameter, whether tinned, coppered,
or covered with zine..
16 00
13
"
90
00
**
14 00
10
00
:
1
12
STEEL:-
In bars of all kinds
Sheet, exceeding 2 millimètres in thickness.......
Sheet, not exceeding 2 millimètres in thickness, and wire, including brightị
wire for instruments
28
15
22
38
00
13
00
"
00
18
T
S3
17
00
30
00
25
00
COPTER:
Ore, filings and old broken articles...
Free
Free
Ditto, and brass smelted, in pigs, bars, or plates.
29
Rolled or beaten into bars or sheets...
15 00 100 kil.
10
00
100 kil.
Wire of all sizes, whether polished or not.
15
00
10
13
00
Gilt or silvered, beaten, drawn, or rolled, and wire laid on thread or silk.
11
100
00
100
00
ZINC:-
Ore, crude, calcined, or pounded, filings, and old broken articles.. In pigs, bars, or plates......
♡♡
Free
Free
0
10
100 kil.
0
10
100 kil.
6
00
09
**
Rolled......
LEAD:-
TIN:
Ore and dross of all sorts, filings and old broken articles
In pigs, bars, or plates.....
Boiled or sheet, alloyed with antimony, in pig, and type, old.............
محمد
Ore and metal in pigs, bars, or plates, filings and old broken articles... Alloyed with antimony (Britannia metal) in ingots...... Pure metal or alloyed, beaten or rolled.
BISMUTH:
Crude.........
ANTIMONY :-
Ore and sulphurated.
Metal or regulus .
NICKEL :-
Ore and speiss
Pure, and alloyed with other metals, especially copper or zinc (argentine or
German silver), in ingots or pigs..................
Ditto, ditto, rolled or drawn
MANGANESE:~
Ore.......
ABSENIC:-
Metallic
ORES:-
Not enumerated
CAST IRON:
METAL MANUFACTURES.
Not turned nor polished:
Free
cr co
3 00
100 kil.
5
00
Free
3 00" 100 kil.
Free
Free
5
c
00
100 kil.
5
00
100 kil.
6 00
6
00
"
Free
Free
Free
Free
8
00
100 kil.
6
00
Free
Free
100 kil.
15
00'
""
"
100 kil.
10
00
100 kil.
Free
Free
1st Class. Chairs for railways, plates and other castings from the
mould
open
3 50
100 kil.
3 00
100 kil.