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Olive Seed

Paint, Green

Palampore,

or Cotton

Bed Quilts

Hundred

27 50

Paper, 1st quality

Pieul

0700

0400

"

Pearls, False

2000

CUSTOMS TARIFF

57

NAME OF ARTICLE.

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTY.

NAME OF ARTICLE.

TARIFF UNIT AND DUTY

Per Picul

\T. m. c. c.

0300

Silk, Ribbons and Thread]

Per Picul

7. m. c. c.

10 0 0 0

Oyster-shells, Sea-shells.

0090

Piece Goods,-

"

0450

Pongces, Shawls,

Scarves, Crape,

|12 0 0 0

Satin,

Gauzes,

*

Velvet and Em-

2nd

"

broidered Goods Piece Goods,--Sze-

5 0

Peel, Orange

0300

Pumelo, 1st quality

2nd

0450

chuen, Shantung j Tassels

"

10 0 0 0

*

"

23

0150

"

**

"

Caps

Peppermint Leaf

Pictures and Paintings...

0100

Silk and Cotton Mixtures

Hundred Picul

0900 5000

Oil

3 500

Silver and Gold Ware

10 0 0 0

"

**

Each

0100

Pictures on Pith

or? or

Hundred

Snuff Soy

0800

0400

0100

Rice Paper

Straw Braid..

0700

多款

Pottery, Earthenware

Picul

0 0 5 0

Sugar, Brown

>>

Preserves, Comfits, and

White

0120

0200

0500

+3

"

Sweetmeats

97

Candy

02 50

99

Rattans, Split

0250

35

Rattan Ware

0300

Rhubarb

1250

Rice or Paddy, Wheat,

Tallow, Animal

Vegetable

Tea (sce Note at the

end of the Tariff)

0 200

JJ

0300

29

29

Millet,

and

other

0 1 0 0

Tin Foil

A

27

Grains

Tobacco, Prepared

Rugs of Hair or Skin...

Each

0090

Tobacco, Leaf

Samshoo

Picul

0150

Tortoiseshell Ware.

Sandalwood Ware

Catty

0 1 0 0

Trunks, Leather.

Seaweed

Picul

0150

Turmeric

"}

"

Catty Picul

01 50 0200

1 500

0 1 0 0

"

2500

1 2 5 0

0450

Sessamun Seed

0 1 3 5

Twine, Hemp, Canton

Shoes and Boots, Len-)

Soochow...

0150 0500

Pairs

3000

**

>>

"

ther or Satin

Turnips, Salted

0 18 0

31

Shoes, Straw

Silka, Raw and Thrown.....!

Picul

0180 10 0 0 0

Varnish, or Crude Lac-Į

0 500

**

quer

>

"

Yellow, from Sze-

Vermicelli

0 180

"

chuen

"

7000

Vermillion

2500

*

Reeled from Dupions,

5000

"

Silk, Wild Raw

2500

Refuse..

H

**

Cocoons

H

Floss, Canton...

from other Provinces

1000

Wax, White or Insect Wood-Piles, Poles, &

Joiste...

1500

"

Each

0030

""

75

3000

Wood Ware

Picul

43 0 0

Wool

1 1 5 0 0350

"

10 0 0 0

TEA.--Course unpred Japanese Tea imported for local consumption.-Since February, 1861, it has been the practice of the Shanghai Customs to charge duty ad rulorem on Tea of this description.

Tra imported from Japan for the purpose of being refired and re-exported to a Foreign country. Since the 1st of April, 1861, Japanese Tea imported for re-exportation has been dealt with at Shanghai according to the following rule:

Tea imported into this port from Japan for the purpose of being refired and re-exported to a Foreign country will be allowed a reduction on the actual weight imported of Twenty per cent. on the Import duty, and when re- exported a Drawback Certificate for the entire amount of duty paid will be granted or application in the usual manner, provided that the terms of Article XLV. of the Treaty between Great Britain and China be complied with, and that the weights, &c., &c., be correctly declared."

Brick Tea. In the Tariff appended to the Russian Regulations of 1862, the Export duty on Brick is fixed at 6 Maɛe per picul

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