The Tariff and Administrative Customs Acts of 1890, and the Bill H. R. 4864 Volume 7, No. 1; As Reported to the Senate from the Finance Committee Marc (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...and other periodicals published and imported in successive parts, numbers, or volumes, and entitled to be imported free of duty, shall require but one declaration for the entire series. And when entry of merchandise exceeding one hundred dollars in value is made by a statement in the form of an invoice the collector shall require a bond for the production of a duly certified invoice. Sec. 26. That, except in case of personal effects accompanying the passenger, and personal and household effects specially enumerated in the fi-cs list of tb is act, no importation of any merchandise exceeding one hundred dolln rs in dutiable value shall be admitted to entry without the production of a duly certified invoice thereof, as required by law, or of an affidavit m: ide by the owner, importer, or consignee before the collector or his deputy, showing why it is impracticable to produce such invoice; and no entry shall be made in the absence of a certified invoice, upon affidavit as aforesaid, unless such affidavit be accompanied by a statement in the form of an invoice, or otherwise, showing the actual cost of such merchandise, if purchased, or if obtained otherwise than by purchase, the actual market value er wholesale price thereof at the time of exportation to the United States in the principal markets of the country from which the same has liocii imported, the name of the consular district, and the name of the port or place from which the merchandise was procured; which statement shall be verified by the outh of the owner, importer, consignee, or agent desiring to make entry of the merchandise, to be administered by the collector or his deputy, and it shall be the duty of the collector or his deputy to examine the respondent deponent under oath touching the sources of..