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. 1908 Excerpt: ...duty on wheat remained stationary, the rates on corn, rye, barley, and oats were slightly reduced. The duties on wheat and flour have been lowered from time to time in order to offset the temporary high domestic prices, the purpose being to keep prices within the Kingdom nearly stationary. (See Tables 26 to 30.) The ...
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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. 1908 Excerpt: ...duty on wheat remained stationary, the rates on corn, rye, barley, and oats were slightly reduced. The duties on wheat and flour have been lowered from time to time in order to offset the temporary high domestic prices, the purpose being to keep prices within the Kingdom nearly stationary. (See Tables 26 to 30.) The extremely high level of prices reached in 1898 caused France, Italy, and Spain to suspend for a time all duties on wheat. The duties on rye are considerably lower than those imposed on wheat. The tariff on corn, barley, and oats is generally about the same for equal weights, but in Germany feeding barley is admitted from the "most favored nations" at less than half the rate levied on corn. In general the duties on flour are higher than the duties on the corresponding quantity of wheat, so that. it is found more profitable, as a rule, to import wheat in the form of grain than as flour. Table 25.--Current import duties on grain, flour, and malt, bij countries. a For malting barley; for other, the conventional duty is 6.7 cents. b For white corn; for other, the duty is 5.6 cents. c Special regulations. Table 25.--Current import duties on grain, flour, and malt, by countries--Cont'd. a When rate of extraction is more than 60 per cent and less than 70 per cent. When extraction is not less than 70 per cent the duty is $1.89, and when not more than 60 per cent. $2.75. b For barley malt; for malt from other grain the general duty is 40.4 cents, there being no conventional rate. c For meal of white corn; for other kinds the duty is 54 cents. d Special regulations. - For barley malt; other, 19.4 cents. / If in packages weighing not more than 11 pounds, 1.8 cents per pound. Table 26.--Changes in import duties on grain, flour, and malt in Fra...
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