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form as nearly as practicable to the commercial strength in ordinary use in the United States prior to July 1, 1914; that if a dye or other article has been introduced into commercial use since said date then the standard of strength for such dye or other article shall conform as nearly as practicable to the commercial strength in ordinary use; that if a dye or other article was or is ordinarily used in more than one commercial strength, then the lowest commercial strength shall be adopted as the standard of strength for such dye or other article: Provided further, That any article or product which is within the terms of paragraph 1, 5, 38, 40, 61, 68, 84, or [1585] 1689, as well as within the terms of paragraph 27, 28, or [1549] 1651, shall be assessed for duty or exempted from duty as the case may be under paragraph 27, 28, or [1549] 1651.

PAR. 29. Cobalt: Oxide, 20 cents per pound; sulphate and linoleate, 10 cents per pound; and all other cobalt salts and compounds, 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 30. [Cellulose esters, collodion] Collodion and other liquid solutions of pyroxylin, of other cellulose esters or ethers, or of cellulose, 35 cents per pound.

PAR. 31. [Compounds of pyroxylin, of other cellulose esters or ethers, or of cellulose, by whatever name known (except compounds of cellulose known as vulcanized or hard fiber), in blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, and not made into finished or partly finished articles, 40 cents per pound; made into finished or partly finished articles, of which any of the foregoing is the component material of chief value, 60 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all such articles (except photographic and moving-picture films), whether or not more specifically provided for elsewhere, shall be dutiable under this paragraph.] (a) Cellulose acetate, and compounds, combinations, or mixtures containing cellulose acetate:

(1) In blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, powder, flakes, briquets, or other forms, whether or not colloided, and cellulose acetate rayon waste and other cellulose acetate waste, all the foregoing not made into finished or partly finished articles, 50 cents per pound;

(2) made into finished or partly finished articles of which any of the foregoing is the component material of chief value, and not specially provided for, 80 per centum ad valorem.

(b) All compounds of cellulose (except cellulose acetate, but including pyroxylin and other cellulose esters and ethers), and all compounds, combinations, or mixtures of which any such compound is the component material of chief value:

(1) In blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, powder, flakes, briquets, or other forms, whether or not colloided, not made into finished or partly finished articles, 40 cents per pound, except that transparent sheets more than

three one-thousandths of one inch and not more than thirty-two onethousandths of one inch in thickness shall be subject to duty at the rate of 45 cents per pound;

(2) made into finished or partly finished articles of which any of the foregoing is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for, 60 per centum ad valorem:

(3) transparent sheets of cellulose, not exceeding three one-thousandths of one inch in thickness, chiefly used for wrapping, by whatever name known, 45 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 32. Compounds of cellulose, known as vulcanized or hard fiber, made wholly or in chief value of cellulose, 35 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 33. Compounds of casein, known as galalith, or by any other name, in blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, not made into finished or partly finished articles, 25 cents per pound; made into finished or partly finished articles of which any of the foregoing is the component material of chief value not specially provided for, 40 cents per pound and [25] 50 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 34. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots, excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, roots, stems, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of morbid growth, weeds, and all other drugs of vegetable or animal origin; any of the foregoing which are natural and uncompounded drugs and not edible, and not specially provided for, but which are advanced in value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to the proper packing of the drugs and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, 10 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That the term "drug" wherever used in this Act shall include only those substances having therapeutic or medicinal properties and chiefly used for medicinal purposes: And provided further, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 35. Aconite, aloes, asafetida, cocculus indicus, ipecac, jalap, manna; marshmallow or althea root, leaves and flowers; maté, and pyrethrum or insect flowers; all the foregoing which are natural and uncompounded, but which are advanced in value or condition by shredding, grinding, chipping, crushing, or any other process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to proper packing and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, 10 per centum ad valorem; Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 36. [Buchu leaves, 10 cents per pound; coca] Coca leaves, 10 cents per pound; gentian, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; [licorice root, one-half of 1 cent per pound;] sarsaparilla root, 1 cent per

pound; belladonna, digitalis, henbane, and stramonium, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 37. Ergot, 10 cents per pound.

PAR. 38. Ethers and esters: Diethyl sulphate and dimethyl sulphate, 25 per centum ad valorem; ethyl acetate, 3 cents per pound; butyl acetate, 7 cents per pound; ethyl chloride, 15 cents per pound; ethyl ether, 4 cents per pound; and ethers and esters of all kinds not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article containing more than 10 per centum of alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 39. Extracts, dyeing and tanning: Chestnut, cutch, chlorophyll, divi-divi, fustic, hemlock, logwood, mangrove, myrobalan, oak, Persian berry, quebracho, sumac, saffron, safflower, saffron cake, valonia, wattle, and other extracts, decoctions, and preparations of vegetable origin used for dyeing, coloring, staining, or tanning, not specially provided for, and combinations and mixtures of the foregoing articles in this paragraph, 15 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 40. Flavoring extracts and natural or synthetic fruit flavors, fruit esters, oils, and essences, all the foregoing not containing alcohol, and not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 41. Formaldehyde solution or formalin, 2 cents per pound; solid formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde, 8 cents per pound; and hexamethylenetetramine, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 42. Edible gelatin, valued at less than 40 cents per pound, 20 per centum ad valorem and [32] 5 cents per pound; valued at 40 cents or more per pound, 20 per centum ad valorem and 7 cents per pound; gelatin, glue, glue [size] size, and fish glue, not specially provided for, valued at less than 40 cents per pound, [20] 25 per centum ad valorem and [12] 2 cents per pound; valued at 40 cents or more per pound, [20] 25 per centum ad valorem and [7] 8 cents per pound; casein glue, agar agar, pectin, isinglass [and other fish sounds, cleaned, split, or otherwise prepared], and manufactures, wholly or in chief value of gelatin, [glue] glue, or glue size, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 43. Glycerin, crude, 1 cent per pound; refined, 2 cents per pound.

PAR. 44. Ink, and ink powders not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 45. Iodine, resublimed, 20 cents per pound.

PAR. 46. Bromine and all bromine compounds not specially provided for, 10 cents per pound.

PAR. 47. Lead: Acetate, white, 22 cents per pound; acetate, brown, gray, or yellow, 2 cents per pound; nitrate, arsenate, and resinate, 3 cents per pound; and all other lead compounds not specially provided for, 30 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 48. Licorice, extracts of, in pastes, rolls, or other forms, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 49. Lime, citrate of, 7 cents per pound; juice of lemons, limes, oranges, or other citrus fruits, unfit for beverage purposes, 5 cents per pound.

PAR. 50. Magnesium: Carbonate, precipitated, 112 cents per pound; chloride, anhydrous, 1 cent per pound; chloride, not specially provided for, five-eighths of 1 cent per pound; sulphate or Epsom salts, [onehalf of 1 cent per pound; kieserite, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; oxide or calcined magnesia, [medicinal, 31⁄2 7 cents per pound [; oxide or calcined magnesia not suitable for medicinal use, 31⁄2 cents per pound].

PAR. 51. Manganese: Borate, resinate, sulphate, and other manganese compounds and salts, not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 52. Menthol, 50 cents per pound; natural crude camphor [, crude, natural,] and synthetic camphor, 1 cent per pound; natural refined camphor, [refined or synthetic,] 6 cents per pound.

PAR. 53. Oils, animal and fish: Sod, herring, and menhaden, 5 cents per gallon; whale and seal, 6 cents per gallon; sperm, crude, 10 cents per gallon; sperm, refined or otherwise processed, 14 cents per gallon; spermaceti wax, 6 cents per pound; [and all fish oils, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem;] wool grease containing more than 2 per centum of free fatty acids, 1 cent per pound; containing 2 per centum or less of free fatty acids and not suitable for medicinal use, 2 cents per pound; suitable for medicinal use, including adeps lanæ, hydrous or anhydrous, 3 cents per pound [, crude, including that known commercially as degras or brown wool grease, one-half of 1 cent per pound; wool grease, not crude, including adeps lanæ, hydrous and anhydrous, 1 cent per pound]; all other animal and fish oils, fats, and greases, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 54. Oils, vegetable [expressed or extracted]: Castor [oil], 3 cents per pound; hempseed [oil], 11⁄2 cents per pound; linseed or flaxseed [oil], [raw, boiled, or oxidized,] and combinations and mixtures in chief value of such oil, [30] 4100 cents per pound; olive [oil], weighing with the immediate container less than forty pounds, 72 cents per pound on contents and containers; olive [oil], not specially provided for, 62 cents per pound; poppy-seed [oil], [raw, boiled, or oxidized,] 2 cents per pound; rapeseed [oil], 6 cents per gallon; all other expressed [and] or extracted oils, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 55. Coconut oil, 2 cents per pound; cottonseed oil, 3 cents per pound; peanut oil, 4 cents per pound; palm-kernel oil, 1 cent per pound; sesame oil, 3 cents per pound; and [soya-bean] soy-bean oil, [22] 5 cents per pound.

PAR. 56. Alizarin assistant, Turkey red oil, sulphonated castor or other sulphonated animal or vegetable oils, soaps made in whole or in part from castor oil, and all soluble greases; all [of] the foregoing in whatever form, and [used] suitable for use in the processes of softening, dyeing, tanning, or finishing, not specially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem.

PAR. 57. Hydrogenated or hardened oils and fats, 4 cents per pound; other oils and fats, the composition and properties of which have been changed by vulcanizing, oxidizing, chlorinating, nitrating, or any other chemical process, and not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad valorem.

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PAR. 58. Combinations and mixtures of animal, vegetable, mineral oils or of any of them (except combinations or mixtures containing essential or distilled oils), with or without other substances, and not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem, but not less than the rate applicable to the component material subject to the highest rate of duty: Provided, That no article containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 59. Oils, distilled or essential: [Lemon] Lemon, grapefruit, and orange, 25 per centum ad valorem; clove, eucalpytus, peppermint, patchouli, sandalwood, and all other essential and distilled oils not specially provided for, 25 per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article mixed or compounded with or containing alcohol shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

PAR. 60. Opium containing not less than 8.5 per centum of anhydrous morphine, [crude or unmanufactured and not adulterated,] $3 per pound; [powdered, or otherwise advanced beyond the condition of crude or unmanufactured, and containing 15 per centum or less of moisture, $4 per pound;] morphine, morphine sulphate, and all opium alkaloids and salts, esters, and other derivatives thereof, $3 per ounce; cocaine, ecgonine, and salts, esters, and other derivatives thereof, $2.60 per ounce; tincture of opium, such as laudanum, and other liquid preparations of opium, not specially provided for, 60 per centum ad valorem; opium containing less than 8.5 per centum of anhydrous morphine, $6 per pound: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal or in any manner impair or affect the provisions of [an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February 9, 1909, as amended by an Act approved January 17, 1914] the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, as amended.

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