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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MARCH, 1861.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITCHALL, OCTOBER 25TH, 1860.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade are pleased to publish, for general in bruation, the following comparative statement, showing the rates of duty pay- able on the direct importation into France from the United Kingdom, under the French or British flag, of the undermentioned articles of British origin or manufacture, as set forth in the Tariff annexed to the Convention concluded on the 12th instant between Great Britain and France, as compared with the corresponding rates of import daty levied on the same articles under the old French Tariff.
Description of Ami les,
New Duties.
1864.
Former Dulles. (Adding the two decimes.)
IRON-
METALS.
1860.
Per 100 kilos. Fr. c.
Per 100 kilos. Fr. c.
Per 100 kilos.
Free
Free
>>
50
3 05
5
and dimensions; angle
7 00
8 359
O A10 10
2
SR3 8
6 00
00
75
50
Free
Free and 96c.
Af. 800.
8f. 40c. aml 9f. 60c.
Prohibited
Bars and rails 12f. to 16f.
80c.
Ore of
Filings, slag and dross, from the forge
Pig and fragments of old cast irea
Purified cast, called “mazle,” and old bredden trenght frot
Crude, in lamps or prisas, not fre: i stum
Bars, square, roun l. or dat, mils of all da
and Tiron; and wire, with the exceptions in painatter mentioned Hoops, of the thickness of 1 millimetre or less
Sherts, rolled or hammered exceeding 1 millimetre in thickness In plates weighing 200 kilos, or less, and of which the breadth does not exceed 1 mêtre 20 centimetres, nor the length 4 mètres 30 centimètres,
In plates exceeding 200 kilogrammes in weight or 1 nêtre 20 centimètres
in breadth, or 4 mètres 50 centimètres in length.............. Sheet, thin, and black iron, in plates of 1 millimètre or less in thickness..
(N.B. Thin sheet and black iron in Hat plants, cat cat or trimmed in
any way, to pay one-tenth more than re-tangular plates.)..............
Sheets, tinned, copperud, covered with zine or had........
8
50
.
9 50
13 00
1-
7
50
24f.
ཚག
7
10
88
50
00
16
Wire, not exceeding th millimètres in diameter, whether tinned, coppered,
or covered with zinc....
14
STEEL:--
In bars of all kinds.....
15
Sheet, exceeding 2 millimôtres in thickness,
22
Shert, not exereding 2 millimetres in thickness, and Wire, including
bright wire for instruments..........
30
8 8 8 8 8
8 8 88
00
13
486
10
00
36f. and 84f.
13 00
36f.
00
18
00
Sheets 60 to 600, Wire
00
25
00
COPPER:-
Ore, filings and old broken articles....
Free
Free
Ditto, and brass snelted, in pigs, bars, or plates.
""
Rolled or beaten into bars or sheets...
Wire of all sizes, whether polished or not
Ore, crude, caleined or pounded, filings, and old broken articles.
Gilt or silvered, beaten, drawn, or rolled, and wire laid on thread or silk. ZINC :-
228
15
15
100 00
888
10 00
00
10
100
888
00
841.
Free
12c. to 2f. 40c.
36C to 96f.
1201 to 3438f. 20e.
00
244f, 80c. to 1,140f.
Free
Free
Free and 12c.
In pigs, bars, or plates.......
0 10
0 10
12c.
Rolled
LEAD :---
6
00
4 00
Gof.
Ore and dross of all sorts, filings and old broken articles.......
Free
Free
Free
In pigs, bars, or plates.....
3 00
Rolled or sheet, alloyed with antimony, in pig, and type, old..
5 00
3
8.
00
Ore and metal in pigs, bars, or plates, filings and old broken articles. Alloyed with antimony (Britannia metal) in ingots..........
Free
Free
5 00
Pure metal or alloyed, beaten or rolled.......
6 00
88
5 CO
6 00
BISMUTH :-
Crude.
Free
Free
ANTIMONY:-
Ore and sulphurated....
Pigs Gf.
Alloyed with antimony
31f. 20e.
Free and 2f. 40c.
72f.
2f. 40c.
Free and If. 20e.
Sheets 28f. 80c.
Metal or regulus....................
NICKEL-
Ore aud speiss
12
8 00
Free
6 00
Free
Pure, and alloyed with other metal, especially copper or zinc (argentine or
German silver), in ingots or pigs...
Ditto, ditto, rolled or drawn.........
31f. 20c.
Free
15 00
10
00
lf. 20c. 1201.
MANGANESE:—
Ore..
ÅRSENIC :---
Metallic..
ORES:-
Not enumerated...
Free
Free
Free
METAL MANUFACTURES.
CAST IRON-
Not turned nor polished :-
1st Class. Chairs for railways, plates and other castings from the open
mould..
3
2nd Class. Cylindrical pipes (straight), rafters, solid columns, and gas
retorts..
4 25
3rd Class. Pots and all other manufactures not included in the precced-
ing classes...
5 00
+
Polished or turned
9 00
Tinned, enamelled, or varnished.
12 00
8888
50
3
Co
3
10
8 2 288
+49
00
75
50
-Prohibited
00
00
WROUGHT IRON :-
Ironwares (heavy), including framework; pieces of frames..... Knees and girders for ships.
Ironwork for carts and waggons........................
9 00
8 00