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CLASS I.

Duty Free Goods.

Agricultural implements.

Books, maps, and charts.

Bulliou, being gold and silver refined.

Coins, gold, and silver.

Fire engines.

Models of inventions.

IMPORT TARIFF.

[Classified according to Rate of Duty.]

Packing bags, packing matting, tea-lead, and ropes for

packing goods.

Plants, trees, and shrubs, of all kinds.

Samples in reasonable quantities.

Scientific instruments, as physical, mathematical, meteo-

rological, and surgical instruments and their ap- pliances.

Travellers' baggage.

Types, new and old.

CLASS II.

Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 5 per

Alum.

Anchors and chains.

Bark for tanning.

Bamboo, split or not.

cent.

Beans, peas, and pulse, all kinds.

Bones.

Bricks and tiles.

Camphor, crude.

Coal and coke.

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Cotton, raw.

Drugs and medicines, all kinds.

Fish, fresh.

Flax, hemp, and jute.

Flints.

Flour and meal, all kinds.

Fruit, fresh, all kinds.

Glue.

Grain and corn, all kinds.

Guano and manures, all kinds.

Hides and skins, raw and undressed.

Horns and hoofs, all kinds not otherwise provided for.

Kerosene and petroleum and other mineral oils. Lanterns, paper.

Lime.

Matches.

Matting, floor, Chinese and Japanese, coir, &e.,

common qualities.

Meat, fresh.

Metals, all kinds, in pig, block, ingot, slab, bar, rod,

plate, sheet, boop, strip, band, and flat, T and angle

iron, old and scrap iron.

Oil cake.

Oil, wood (Tung yu).

Paper, common qualities.

Pepper, unground.

Pitch and tar.

Rattans, split or not.

Scales and balances.

Seeds, all kinds.

Soap, common qualities.

Soy, Chinese and Japanese.

Twine and thread, all kinds excepting in silk.

Umbrellas, paper.

Vegetables, fresh, dried, and salted. Wool, sheep's, raw.

Yarns, all kinds, in cotton, wool, hemp, &c.

All unenumerated articles, raw or unmanufactured.

CLASS III.

Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 7} per

cent.

Beverages, such as lemonade, ginger beer, soda and

mineral waters.

Blankets and rugs.

Buttons, buckles, hooks and eyes, &c.

Candles.

Canvas.

Carpets of jute, hemp, or felt, patent tapestry. Charcoal

Chemicals, all kinds.

Cocoons.

Cement, as Portland and other kinds.

Cordage and rope, all kinds and sizes.

Clothing and wearing apparel of all kinds, hats, boots,

shoes, &c.

Cotton manufactures, all kinds.

Cotton and woollen mixtures, all kinds.

Cotton and silk mixtures, all kinds.

Dyes, colours, and paints, paint oils, and materials used

for mixing paints.

Earthenware.

Fans.

Feathers.

Felt.

Fish, dried and salted.

Floor rugs, all kinds.

Foil, tin, copper, and all other kinds except gold and

silver.

Fruits, dried, salted, or preserved.

Gamboge.

Glass, window, plain, and coloured, all qualities.

Grass cloth and all textiles in hemp, jute, &c.

Hair, all kinds except human.

Hides and skins, tanned and dressed.

Isinglass, all kinds.

Lamps, all kinds.

Leather, all ordinary kinds, plain.

Linen, linen and cotton, linen and woollen, linen and

silk mixtures, grey, white, or printed. Matting, superior quality, Japanese "tatamis," &c. Meat, dried and salted.

Metals, all kinds in pipe and tube, corrugated or galvanized, wire, steel, tin plates, nickel, platina, quicksilver, German silver, tutenagne, or white copper, yellow metal, unrefined gold and silver. Metal manufactures, all kinds, as nails, screws, tools,

machinery, railway plant, and hardware.

Musquito netting not made of silk.

Needles and pins.

Oils, vegetable, all kinds.

Oil and floor cloth, all kinds.

Paper, all kinds, not otherwise provided for..

Planks, soft wood.

Porcelain, common quality.

Rosin.

Salt.

Sapan wood.

Sea products, as seaweed, bêche de mer, &c.

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Silk, raw, reeled, thrown floss or waste.

Silk manufactures not otherwise provided for. Spectacles.

Spirits in jars.

Stationery and writing materials of all kinds, blank

books, &c.

Stones and slate, cut and dressed.

Sugar (brown and white), all qualities, molasses, and

syrups.

Sulphur.

Table stores, all kinds, and preserved provisions. Tallow.

Tea.

Umbrellas, cottton,

Umbrella frames.

Varnish,

Vermicelli.

Wax, bees' or vegetable.

Was cloth.

Woods and timber, soft.

Woollen manufactures, all kinds.

Woollen and silk mixtures, all kinds.

All unenumerated articles partly manufactured.

CLASS IV.

Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 10 per

Beer, porter, and cider.

Camphor, refined.

Carmine.

cent.

Carpets, superior qualities, as Brussels, Kidderminster,

Clocks, and parts thereof.

and other kinds not enumerated.

Clothing made wholly of silk.

Confectionaries and sweetmeats, all kinds.

Explosives used for mining, &c. (imported under

special permit),

Foil, gold and silver.

Furniture of all kinds.

Glass, plate, silvered or unsilvered, framed or un-

framed.

Glassware, all kinds.

Hair, human.

India-rubber, manufactured or not.

Leather, superior kinds, or stamped, figured, or

coloured.

Leather manufactures, all kinds,

Lacquered-ware, common.

Materials for scals, &c.

Musical boxes.

Musical instruments, all kinds.

Musquito netting made of silk.

Paper, coloured, faney, wall and hanging.

Photographie apparatus.

Planks, hardwood.

Plated-ware, all kinds.

Pictures, prints, photographs, engravings, all kinds,

framed or unframed.

Porcelain, superior quality.

Saddlery and harness.

Silk thread, or floss silk in skein.

Silk manufactures, as gauze, crape, Japanese amber lustrings, satins, satin damasks, figured satins, Japanese white silk (“habutai ").

Soap, superior qualities.

Telescopes and binocular glasses.

Sugar candy.

Tooth powder.

Trunks and portmanteaux.

Umbrellas, silk.

Vermilion.

Watches and parts thereof in common metal, nickel, or

silver.

Wines in wood or bottle, all kinds. Wood or timber, hard.

All unenumerated articles completely manufactured.

CLASS V.

Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 20 per

Amber.

cent.

Arms, fire-arms, fowling pieces, &c., imported under

special permit.

Artificial flowers.

Birds' nests.

Carpets, velvet.

Carriages.

Cochineal.

Coral, manufactured or not.

Embroideries in gold, silver, or silk.

Enamel-ware.

Fireworks.

Furs, superior, as sable, sea otter, seal, otter, beaver,

&c.

Ginseng, red, white, crude, and clarified.

Hair oranments, gold and silver.

Incense, sticks.

Ivory, manufactured or not.

Jade-ware.

Jewellery, real or imitation.

Lacquered-ware, superior.

Musk.

Pearls.

Perfumes and scents.

Plate, gold and silver.

Precious stones.

Rhinoceros horns.

Scented woods, all kinds.

Spices, all kinds.

Spirits and liqueurs in wood or bottle, all kinds.

Tobacco, all forms and kinds.

Tortoise shell, manufactured or not.

Velvet, silk,

Watches, and parts thereof, in gold and gilt. Works of Art.

CLASS VI.

Prohibited Goods.

Adulterated drugs or medicines.

Arms, munitions, and implements of war, as ordnance or cannon, shot and shell, fire-arms of all kinds, cartridges, side-arms, spears, or pikes, saltpetre, gun- powder, guncotton, dynamite, and other explosive substances.

The Corean authorities will grant special permits for the importation of arms, fire-arms, and ammunition for purposes of sport or self defence, ou satisfactory proof being furnished to them of the bond fide character of the application. Counterfeit coins, all kinds. Opium, except medicinal opium.

Foreign ships, when sold in Corea, will pay a duty of 25 cents per ton on sailing vessels, and 50 cents per ton on steamers.

(L.S.)

HARRY S. PARKES.

(L.S.)

Signature in Chinese of MIN YÖNG-MOK,

Corean Plenipotentiary,

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