311

No article not specially provided
for which is wholly or partly
manufactured from tin plate,
terneplate, or sheet, plate, hoop,
band, or scroll iron or steel, or of
which such tin plate, terneplate,
sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll
iron or steel shall be the material
of chief value, shall be subject
to 68 a lower rate of duty than
that imposed on the tin plate,
terneplate, or sheet, plate, hoop,
band, or scroll iron or steel from
which it is made, or of which it
shall be the component thereof
of chief value. (Acts of 1913,
1922, and 1930.)

312 Beams, girders, joists, angles, chan-
nels, car-truck channels, tees,
columns and posts, or parts or
sections of columns and posts,
and deck and bulb beams, to-
gether with all other structural
shapes of iron or steel:
Not assembled, manufactured or
advanced beyond hammering,
rolling or casting.
Machined, drilled, punched, as-
sembled, fitted, fabricated for
use, or otherwise advanced be-
yond hammering, rolling, or
casting.

Sashes and frames of iron or steel.
Sheet piling..

313 Hoop, band, and scroll iron or steel,

2500 cent per lb...

35100 cent per lb.

25100 cent per lb..
35100 cent per lb.10 per cent. 71

55100 cent per lb.

or short

25 per cent.
25 per cent.
14 cent per lb.

Hoop or band iron, and hoop or
band steel, cut to lengths, or
wholly or partly manufactured
into hoops or ties, coated or not
coated with paint or any other
preparation, with or without
buckles or fastenings, for baling
cotton or any other commodity.

68" Pay" changed to "be subject to" in act of 1930.

69 Structural shapes, acts of 1913 and 1922.

70 Provided, That barrel hoops of iron or steel, and hoop or band iron, or hoop or band steel, flared, splayed, or punched, with or without buckles or fastenings, shall pay no more duty than that imposed on the hoop or band iron or steel from which they are made. (Acts of 1930 and 1922.)

71 Hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel not otherwise provided for in this section, and barrel hoops of iron or steel, wholly or partly manufactured.

72 Strips of iron or steel, n. s. p. f.

Schedule 3.-Metals and Manufactures of—Continued

Paragraph, act of 1930

Classification

315 Rivet, screw, fence, and other iron
or steel wire rods, whether
round,73 oval, or square, or in
any other shape, nail rods and
flat rods up to 6 inches in width
ready to be drawn or rolled into
wire or strips, all the foregoing
in coils or otherwise:
Valued at not over 4 cents per
pound.

316(a)

Valued at over 4 cents per pound.
Iron or steel wire rods which have
been tempered or treated in any
manner or partly manufactured.

Iron or steel bars and rods of what-
ever shape or section which are
cold rolled, cold drawn, cold ham-
mered, or polished in any way in
addition to the ordinary process
of hot rolling or hammering.

Strips, plates, or sheets of iron or
steel of whatever shape, other
than polished, planished, or
glanced sheet iron or sheet steel,
which are cold hammered, blued,
brightened, tempered, or polished
by any process to such perfected
surface finish or polish better than
the grade of cold rolled, smoothed
only.

Round iron and steel wire:

Valued not above 6 cents per
pound-

Not smaller than 951000 inch in
diameter.

Smaller than 951000 and not
smaller than 651000 inch in
diameter.

Smaller than 651000 inch in
diameter.

Valued above 6 cents per pound...
Wire composed of iron, steel, or
other metal, n. s. p. f. (except
gold, silver, platinum,79 tung-
sten, or molybdenum.8 80

Flat wires and all steel in strips 25 per cent...
not thicker than 14 inch and not

exceeding 16 inches in width,
whether in long or short lengths,
in coils or otherwise, and wheth-
er rolled or drawn through dies
or rolls, or otherwise produced.
Wire of iron, steel, or other metal 83
coated by dipping, galvanizing,
sherardizing, electrolytic,
any other process with zinc, tin,
or other metal.

or

210 cent per lb. ad-
ditional to rate
imposed on wire
of which made.

25 per cent..
25 per cent.

15 per cent.

15 per cent.

15 per cent.78

73 Provided, That all round iron or steel rods smaller than 2100 inch in diameter shall be classified and dutiable as wire.

74 Horseshoe nail rods free in act of 1913.

75

* rolled wire rods in coils or bars not smaller than 29100 inch in diameter made by the crucible, electric, or cementation process

* when

76 Strips not thicker than No. 15 wire gauge nor wider than 5 inches; and sheets.

77 Plates and strips, n. s. p. f.

78 Wire, n. s. p. f.

79 Except gold, silver, or platinum'' added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

80Tungsten or molybdenum" added in act of 1930.

81 Steel in strips not thicker than No. 15 wire gauge and not exceeding 5 inches in width. (Act of 1913.) 'Strips of iron or steel, n. s. p. f. (Act of 1913.)

83Other metal" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

80 "Tungsten or molybdenum" added in 1930.

84" Platinum" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

85 Composed of metal and rubber, or of metal, rubber, and other materials. (Act of 1913.) 86 Wire rope.

87 Wire strand" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

88 Articles manufactured wholly or in chief value of any wire or wires provided for in this section.

89 Articles or wares, n. s. p. f., composed wholly or in cheif value of metal.

90"Spinning and twisting ring travelers" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

91 Duty on content of metal named.

92 Molybdenum, tungsten, or alloys used in the manufacture of steel, n. s. p. f.

93 Chemical compounds or mixtures, n. s. p. f.

94 Metals unwrought, n. s. p. f.

95 Wire, n. s. p. f.

96 Articles or wares, n. s. p. f., of metal, not plated or in chief value of platinum, gold, or silver. 97 At rates for tungsten or molybdenum metal, whichever predominates.

Fourdrinier wires and cylinder 50 per cent......
wires, suitable for use in paper-
making machines (whether or
not parts of or fitted or at-
tached to such machines), and
woven-wire cloth suitable for
use in the manufacture of
Fourdrinier wires or cylinder
wires.

319(a) Forgings of iron or steel, or of com-
bined iron and steel, not machined,
tooled, or otherwise advanced in
condition by any process or oper-
ation subsequent to the forging
process, n. s. p. f.

319(b)

320

321

322

Iron or steel anchors and parts
thereof.

Autoclaves, catalyst chambers or
tubes, converters, reaction cham-
bers, scrubbers, separators, shells,
stills, ovens, soakers, penstock
pipes, cylinders, containers,
drums, and vessels, any of the
foregoing composed wholly or in
chief value of iron or steel, by
whatever process made (except
by casting), wholly or partly
manufactured, if over 20 inches
at the largest inside diameter
(exclusive of non-metallic lining)
and having metal walls 14 inches
or more in thickness, and parts
for any of the foregoing.
Electric storage batteries and parts
thereof, storage battery plates,
and storage battery plate ma-
terial, wholly or partly manu-
factured, all the foregoing n. s. p. f.
Antifriction balls and rollers, metal
balls and rollers commonly used
in ball or roller bearings, metal
ball or roller bearings, and parts
thereof, whether finished or un-
finished, for whatever use in-
tended. 5

25 per cent....

25 per cent..

Rail braces, and all other railway o cent per lb....
bars made of iron or steel, and
railway bars made in part of steel,
Trails, and punched iron or steel
flat rails.

10 cents per lb. and 35 per cent.
45 per cent.

0 cent per lb..... Free.

Railway fishplates or splice bars, 4 cent per lb...
and tie plates," made of iron or

steel.

98 Articles manufactured wholly or in chief value of any wire or wires provided for in this section.

99 Articles or wares n. s. p. f., if composed wholly or in chief value of metal.

1 If parts of machines; otherwise dutiable as woven wire cloth.

2 Cylindrical tubular tanks or vessels; also might be classified as parts of machines at 30 per cent, or as manufactures of metal n. s. p. f. at 40 per cent.

3 Manufactures of metal n. s. p. f.

4 According to component material of chief value.

"Antifriction balls, ball bearings, and roller bearings, of iron or steel or other metal, finished or unfinished, and parts thereof" in act of 1913.

6 Rail braces added in acts of 1922 and 1930 (classified as manufactures of metal n. s. p. f. at 20 per cent in act of 1913.)

7 Tie plates added in acts of 1922 and 1930 (classified as manufactures of metal n. s. p. f. at 20 per cent in act of 1913.)

323

324

325

326

327

1 cent per lb..

1 cent per lb..

20 per cent.

Axles and parts thereof, axle bars, 10 cent per lb... 40 cent per lb... 10 per cent.
axle blanks, and forgings for axles,
of iron or steel, without reference
to the stage or state of manufac-
ture, n. s. p. f., valued at not more
than 6 cents per pound.
Wheels for railway purposes, and
parts thereof, of iron or steel,' and
steel-tired wheels for railway pur-
poses, wholly or partly finished,
and iron or steel locomotive, car,
or other railway tires and parts
thereof, wholly or partly manu-
factured.

328 Furnaces, tubes, and flues, welded cylindrical, made from plate metal, whether corrugated, ribbed, or otherwise reinforced against collapsing pressure. Tanks or vessels, cylindrical and tubular, for holding gas, liquids, or other material, whether full or empty.

20 per cent..
40 per cent 15 or
33% per cent.16

20 per cent.

50 per cent..

25 per cent

25 per cent..

10 per cent.
20 per cent 15 or 15
per cent.16

20 per cent.

Tubes, iron or steel, finished or
unfinished, 17 n. s. p. f.
Tubes or pipes, rigid, of iron or
steel, prepared and lined or
coated in any manner suitable
for use as conduits for electrical
conductors.

8 Provided, That when iron or steel axles are imported fitted in wheels, or parts of wheels, of iron or steel, they shall be dutiable at the same rate as the wheels in which they are fitted.

9 Provided, That when wheels for railway purposes, or parts thereof, of iron or steel, are imported with iron or steel axles fitted in them, the wheels and axles together shall be dutiable at the same rate as is provided for the wheels when imported separately.

10 This classification added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

11"But not including enameled ware and hollow ware containing electrical elements" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

12" But not including electric irons" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

13 "Cast-iron fittings for cast-iron pipe" added in act of 1930; fittings might also have been classified as "manufactures of metal, n. s. p. f." under the acts of 1913 and 1922.

14 "Or parts thereof" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

15 Manufactures of metal, n. s. p. f.

16 Manufactures of wood, n. s. p. f.

17"Unfinished" added in acts of 1922 and 1930.

18 All other iron or steel tubes, finished, n. s. p. f.