Tea remains on the free list.
Shanghai shipments of green tex four months were $157,000.
Sesame seed, shipped in four months to the value of $138,000 Girses Gree wit become datiabie mains on the free-list. Sesame
three cents per 1b.
'Tung oil, one of the major exports from' China, remains on the Shanghai shipped to the Unit States in four months cotton lace valued at $346,000.
On cotton lace window curtains, nets, nettings, pillow shams, bed sets, ete., made on the Nottingham lace-curtain machine, the old compound ad valorem and specific-rates fare abandoned in favour of a flat ad valorem rate of 60 per cent. This is not an increase. new paragraph on handkerchiefs, (paragraph 1529, B) reads as follows:—"Handkerchiefs, wholly or in part of lace, and handkerehi embroidered (whether with a pi or fancy initial, monogram or otherwise and whether or not the is on a scalloped edge) appliqued, er" fro which threads have bees omitted, drawn, punched, or cut, and threads introduced after weaving to finish or ornament the openwork, not including one row of straight hemstitching adjoining the hem; all the foregoing, finished or unfinished, of whatever material composed, 4 cents each and 40 per cent ad valorem."
Shanghai shipped linen embroidcries valued at $392,000. The general rate en embroideries in the new bill is 90 per cent. ad valorem. In the old bill, the rates were 75 per cent. and 90 per cent. on different types of embroideries.
The Wool Export Carpet woo! from Shanghai in four months was valued at $372,000, The carpet wool paragraph of the tariff law has been re-drafted, with a nominal increase in rates both of wool and camel hair to 24 cents per Ib. of clean content, However, provision is made for the continued remittance of duty when floor coverings are manufactured in four year from the imported wool.(The present provision is only three years). Provision also is made, for the first time, for the remittance or duties in the case of wool imported for knit or felt boots or heavy lumbermen's socks. In case of viol tion of the bond, duties of 50 cents Silk goods, of which Shanghai shipped $168,000 in four months, are subject to somewhat higher duties, increases ranging from 5 to 1 per cent. Silk clothing and manufactured articles of" which chief value is silk are increased to 65 per cent., the present rate being 60 per cen Woven silk fabrics, if Jacquardfigured, are subject to 65 per cent., instead of 65 per cent, ad valorem rate.
Thrown silk, not more advanced than singles, tram, or organzine, is reduced from present rate of 25 per cent. to 20 per cent.
tungsten ore, of which Shanghs shipped $219,500 in four months, is now dutiable'at 45 cents per Ib. of metallic content. The new rate in the house bill is 50 cents per Ib—United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.