Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from U. S. Import Duties, Under Existing Laws and Decisions, and Digest of the Tariff Laws, August 1, 1872: With an Appendix Containing Tables of Foreign Moneys, Weights and Measures, Reduced to U. S. Standard, Rates of Tare, Rates of Drawback, Standard Weight of Grain, and Other Important Regulations of the Customs
The comparative rates of duty on any article, as well as the phraseology of the law imposing the same, can be ascertained by tracing the article from the schedule through the various laws, as for example, liquors refer from the schedule to par. 652, that refers to 594, that to 577, that to 423, that to 192, that to 178, and that to 3, thus showing seven changes in the duty on this article within the last twelve years.
The term Reg. Of 1857 refers to the General Regulations of the Treas ury Department issued 1857 Rev. Reg. To the Revised Regulations issued 1869, and the dec. Of, to the Decisions rendered by the Department from 1857 to date.
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