THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MARCH, 1861.
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Description of Articles.
Tariff-continued.
Rates of Import Duties.
1860.
1864.
Former Duties (adding the two decimes.)
Per 100 kil. Fr. c.
Per 100 kil.
Yarns and tissues of wool, or of other materials above mentioned mixed with cotton, or with any other filaments whatever, will pay the same duties as yarns and tissues of pure wool, provided that the wool predominates in weight.
Yarns of goats' hair will continue to pay the duties at present in force. Tissues of goats' hair, other than shawls and scarfs of Indian cashmere, will pay the same duties as woollen tissues.
SILKS :-
In cocoons....
Raw or thrown........................................
Per 100 kil. Fr. C.
Free
Free
"
"
Dyed:-
For sewing, embroidery, or lace..
Per kil.
3 00 Free
"7
Others
Waste:--
"
In mass
Per kil.
0 10
0 10
Combed
In thread, single and twisted, unbleached, bleached, blued or dyed :---
Of 80,000 mètres single, or less, to the kilogramine...
0 75
Of 81,000 mètres single, or more ...................
1 20
1
0 75 20
2223
Tissues, hosiery, and lace, of pure silk.
Free
Per kil.
6c. to 12c.
3f. 67f. 3f. 67f.
Free
Free
10 00
Free from 1866
20 00
19
Free
Per kil.
lf. 20c. to 3f. 60c. Silk stuffs, 19f. 20c. to 22f. 80c. per kil.; coverlets, 244f. 80c. per 100 kils.; carpets, 367f. 206. per 100 kils.; gauze, 37f. 20c. per kil.; lace, 15 per cent."ad valorem; hosiery, 1440f. per 100 kils.
Prohibited
Crapes, called English, unbleached, black, or coloured. Net:
Plain, unbleached.........
Dressed
Figured, unbleached, or dressed........
f 15 per cent. ad valorem. f 10 per cent.
Lad valorem.
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Free from Oct. 1, 1864
Tissues of pure waste silk, of silk and of waste silk, unbleached, bleached,
dyed, or printed
Per kil. 2 00
Per kil.
8f, 40c.
Tissues, haberdashery, and laces of silk or of waste silk :-
With fine gold or silver.....
12 00
With semi-fine or false gold or silver
3 50
Tissues of silk or of waste silk, mixed with other materials, in which the
silk or waste silk predominates in weight......
3 00
Ribbons of silk or of waste silk :---
Of velvet....
5 00
Others
8 00
88 8 38
Per 100 kil. 960f.
Mixed with other materials, the silk or waste silk predominating in weight|
10 per cent. ad valorem.
CHEMICALS.
Iodine.......
Bromine..
Acid :-
Sulphuric.....
Nitric
Tartaric
Benzoic
Boracic
Citric...
Arsenic
Lemon Juice...
Oxide :---
Of iron
Of zinc, grey
Of tin
Of uranium
Of copper
Zafre and other combinations of cobalt..
Sulphuret of arsenic.
Chloride of potassium Iodide of potassium Salts of beetroot Carbonates of potash
Nitrate of potash
Sulphate of potash...
Tartrates of potash....
Vegetable ashes, quick and lixiviated
Lees of wine
Borax, raw
Nitrate of Soda
Kelp...
Bone black.
Bones, calcined, white
Phosphates, natural
Citrates of lime
Sulphate of Magnesia.........................
Carbonate of Magnesia...............
Free
Gf. 48f..
49f. 20c.
108f. 720.
84f.
12f. to 18f.
30c.
1f. 20c, to 180f.
lf. 20c.
Free.
11
11
*
"
>>
of. 600.
6f.
7f. 20c. and 12f.
Free and 2f.
12f.
84f.
Free
Free and 3f. 60c.
Free and 2f
31f. 80c.
8f. 40c.
11. 20c.
84f.
2.10f