Undressed furs will continue on the free list. Shanghai shipments of these products in four months were:—Weasel, $1,240,000; raccoon, '3296,000; marmot,' $103,000; dog, '3116, 000, Dressed' furs and dressed fur skins (except silver or black) and plates, mats and crosses of dressed dog, goat, or kid skin, will be subject to 25 per cent. ad valorem duties, as at present; but with a duty of 30 per cent, when dyed.
'Shanghai shipments of dried whole eggs were valued at $68,000; of dry albumen, $76,000; of dried yolk, '$72,000.' In both' the present and the new bills the rate is 18 cents Ib, Frozen yolk shipments, valued at $282,000, were dutiable' at- six cents per 1b. in the present bill, and tthe rate is raised to eight cents in the new bill.
Bristles are one of the few pro-duets to be revised downward. in the new bill. Shanghai shipments in four months amounted to $334,- '000, so the item is an important one. On sorted, bunched or prepared bristles, the proposed new rate is three cents per 1b, instead of seven cents; crude bristles, not -sorted, bunched or prepared, remai on_the free list.
Shanghai shipments of feathers four months were valued at $582,000. In the new bill, asin the old, feathers in an unmanfactured state are dutiable at 20 per cent. ad valorem.. Manufactured feather products are generally dutiable at 60 per cent, but the rate on feather dusters is fixed at 45 per cent.
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