CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843

## TARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA ### EXPORTS 1. Alum per 100 catties T. M. C. C. 0 1 0 0 2. Aniseed, Star ditto 0 5 0 0 Ditto, Oil of. ditto 5 0 0 0 3. Arsenic ditto 0 7 5 0 4. Bangles (or Glass Armlets) ditto 0 5 0 0 5. Bamboo Screens and Bamboo Ware of all kinds ditto 2 0 0 0 6. Brass Leaf ditto 1 5 0 0 7. Building Materials Duty free. 8. Bone and Horn Ware per 100 catties 1 0 0 0 9. Camphor ditto 0 5 0 0 10. Canes of all kinds ditto 0 5 0 0 11. Capoor Cutchery ditto ... 12. Cassia ditto 0 5 0 0 Ditto Buds ditto 0 2 0 0 13. China Root ditto 0 2 0 0 14. China Ware, all kinds ditto 0 5 0 0 15. Clothes (ready made). ditto 0 5 0 0 16. Copper Ware, Pewter, &c. ditto 0 5 0 0 17. Corals (or False Coral) ditto 0 5 0 0 18. Crackers and Fire-works ditto 0 5 0 0 19. Cubebs ditto 0 5 0 0 20. Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) ditto 0 5 0 0 21. Furniture of all kinds ditto 1 5 0 0 22. Galingal ditto 0 1 0 0 23. Gamboge ditto 0 7 5 0 24. Glass, and Glass Ware of all kinds ditto 0 5 0 0 25. Glass Beads ditto 0 1 0 0 26. Glue (as Fish-glue, &c.) ditto 0 5 0 0 27. Grass Cloth, all kinds. ditto 0 5 0 0 28. Hartall ditto 0 5 0 0 29. Ivory Ware, all kinds ditto 1 0 0 0 30. Kittysols, or Paper Umbrellas 40 Paper Fans. ditto 0 5 0 0 31. Lacquered Ware, all kinds ditto 1 0 0 0 32. Lead (White Lead) ditto 0 5 0 0 33. Lead (Red Lead) ditto 0 5 0 0 34. Marble Slabs ditto 0 5 0 0 35. Mats, (straw, rattan, bamboo, &c. &c.) ditto 0 2 0 0 36. Mother o'Pearl Ware ditto 0 5 0 0 37. Musk per catty 0 5 0 0 38. Nankeen, and Cotton Cloth of all kinds 5 per cent. ad valorem. 39. Pictures, viz., large Paintings Rice Paper Pictures ditto 0 5 0 0 40. Paper Fans. 41. Paper of all kinds ditto 0 5 0 0 42. Pearls, (i.e., false Pearls) ditto 0 5 0 0 43. Preserves and Sweetmeats of all kinds ditto 1 0 0 0 44. Rattan work of all kinds ditto 0 5 0 0 45. Rhubarb per 100 catties 0 3 0 0 46. Silk, Raw, whether from Chekiang, Canton, or elsewhere, all kinds per thousand 5 0 0 0 Coarse, or refuse of Silk per 100 catties 1 0 0 0 Silk Piece goods of all kinds, as Silks, Satins, Pongees, Velvets, Crapes, Lutestrings, &c., &c. ditto 0 7 5 0 Organzine, all kinds ditto 1 0 0 0 Ribbons, Thread, &c., of such classes ditto 0 5 0 0 47. Silk and Cotton mixtures, and goods of such classes ditto 0 5 0 0 48. Shoes and Boots, of Leather, Satin, or otherwise ditto 0 5 0 0 49. Sandal Wood Ware ditto 1 0 0 0 50. Soy. ditto 0 5 0 0 51. Silver and Gold Ware ditto 1 0 0 0 52. Sugar, white and brown ditto 0 5 0 0 53. Sugar Candy, all kinds ditto 0 5 0 0 54. Tin Foil ditto 0 5 0 0 55. Tea . ditto 2 0 0 0 56. Tobacco of all kinds ditto 1 0 0 0 57. Turmeric ditto 0 2 5 0 58. Tortoise-Shell Ware ditto 3 5 0 0 59. Trunks (of Leather) ditto 1 0 0 0 60. Treasure, i.e., Coin of all kinds Free. 61. Vermilion ditto 3 0 0 0 ### IMPORTS 1. Assafoetida per 100 catties 1 0 0 0 2. Bees' Wax ditto 1 5 0 0 3. Betel Nut ditto 0 5 0 0 4. Bicho de Mar, first quality, or blk. ditto 0 8 0 0 Bicho de Mar, second quality, or wht. ditto 0 2 0 0 5. Birds Nests, first quality, cleaned. per 100 catties 5 0 0 0 Birds' Nests, second quality, good middling ditto 2 5 0 0 Birds' Nests, third quality, uncleaned ditto 0 5 0 0 6. Camphor (Malay), first quality, clean. Cainphor, second quality, refuse ditto 0 5 0 0 7. Cloves, first quality, picked Ditto, second ditto, mother ditto 1 0 0 0 8. Clocks, Watches, Spy-Glasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks, Dressing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. 10 per cent. ad valorem. 9. Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide per piece 0 1 5 0 10. Cochineal per 100 catties 3 0 0 0 11. Cornelians Ditto Beads ditto 0 5 0 0 12. Cotton ditto 0 4 0 0 13. Cotton Manufactures, viz.. Long Cloths, white, 30 a 40 yards long, 30 a 36 inches wide per piece 0 1 5 0 Cambricks and Muslins, 20 a 24 yards long, 40 a 46 inches wide ditto 0 1 5 0 Grey or Unbleached Cottons, viz.:- Long Cloths, Domestics, &c., &c., 30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide ditto 0 1 0 0 Grey Twilled Cottons, 30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide ditto 0 1 5 0 Chintz and Prints of all kinds, 20 & 30 yards long, 25 a 31 inches wide ditto 0 2 0 0 14. Cotton Yarn and Cotton Thread per 100 catties 0 5 0 0 15. Cow Bezoar per catty 0 1 0 0 16. Cutch per 100 catties 0 3 0 0 17. Elephant's Teeth, first quality, whole ditto 4 0 0 0 Elephant's Teeth, second quality, broken ditto 2 0 0 0 18. Fish Maws ditto 1 5 0 0 19. Flints ditto 0 0 5 0 20. Glass, Glass Ware, and Crystal Ware, of all kinds 5 per cent. ad valorem 21. Gambier per 100 catties 0 1 5 0 22. Ginseng, first quality ditto 38 0 0 0 Ditto second ditto, or refuse ditto 5 0 0 0 23. Gold and Silver Thread :——— first quality, or real per catty 0 1 3 0 second ditto, or imitation ditto 0 0 3 0 24. Gums, Benjamin Olibanum. Myrrhi ditto 1 0 0 0 Gums, unenumerated 10 per cent. ad valorem. 25. Horns, Bullocks' and Bufalos' per 100 catties 0 5 0 0 26. Horns, Unicorns' or Rhinoceros' ditto 2 0 0 0 27. Linen, fine, as Irish or Scotch, yards long, inches wide per piece 0 5 0 0 Coarse Linen, as Linen and Cotton Mixtures, Silk and Linen Mix-tures, &c. &c. 5 per cent. ad valorem. 28. Mace, or Flower of Nutmeg per 100 catties 2 0 0 0 29. Mother of Pearl Shells ditto 1 0 0 0 30. Metals, viz.:- Copper, unmanufactured, as in pigs ditto 1 0 0 0 Copper, manufactured, as in sheets, rods ditto 1 5 0 0 Iron, unmanufactured, as in pigs ditto 0 1 0 0 Iron, manufactured, as in bars, rods, &c. ditto 0 1 5 0 Lead in pigs, or manufactured. ditto 0 5 0 0 Quicksilver ditto 10 0 0 0 Steel, unmanufactured ditto 3 0 0 0 Tin. ditto 0 4 0 0 Tin Plates ditto 1 0 0 0 Unenumerated Metals. ditto 4 0 0 0 31. Nutmegs, first quality, or cleaned per 100 catties 2 0 0 0 Nutmegs, second quality, or uncleaned ditto 1 0 0 0 32. Pepper ditto 0 4 0 0 33. Putchuck ditto 0 7 5 0 34. Rattans ditto 0 2 0 0 35. Rice, Paddy, and Grain of all kinds Duty Free. 36. Rose Maloes. per 100 catties 1 0 0 0 37. Saltpetre (to be sold to Government Agents only) ditto 0 3 0 0 38. Shark's Fins, first quality, ditto 1 0 0 0 Shark's Fins, second quality or Black ditto 0 5 0 0 39. Skins and Furs, viz. Cow and Ox Hides, tanned, and untanned ditto 0 5 0 0 Sea Otter Skins each 1 5 0 0 Fox Skins, large- ditto 0 7 5 0 Fox Skins, small ditto 0 1 5 0 Tiger, Leopard, and Martin Skins ditto 0 1 5 0 Land Otter, Racoon, and Shark's Skins per hundred 2 0 0 0 Beaver skins ditto 5 0 0 0 Hare, Rabbit, and Ermine ditto 0 5 0 0 40. Smalts per 100 catties 1 0 0 0 41. Soap ditto 0 5 0 0 42. Stock Fish, &c. ditto 0 4 0 0 43. Sea Horse Teeth ditto 2 0 0 0 44. Treasure and Money of all kinds. Free. 45. Wine, Beer, Spirits, &c. In Cask per 100 catties 0 5 0 0 In Quart Bottles. per 100 bottles 3 5 0 0 In Pint ditto 1 7 5 0 46. Woods, namely:--- Ebony per 100 catties 1 5 0 0 Sandal Wood ditto A 1 5 0 Sapan Wood ditto 0 5 0 0 Unenumerated Woods ditto 0 1 0 0 47. Woollen Manufactures, viz.:- Broad Cloths, Spanish Stripes, Habit Cloth, &c., 51 a 64 inches wide 10 per cent. ad valorem. per Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 [Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, to pay a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem.]