§ Mr. C. Brownasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, what duty has to be paid on semi-manufactured silk and artificial silk hose and half-hose imported into this country; and what ratio such duty bears to the duty on imported fully-manufactured silk and artificial silk hose and half-hose which are imported?
§ Captain CrookshankThe expression "semi-manufactured silk and artificial silk hose and half-hose" does not appear in the Customs Tariff. If by it are meant silk and artificial silk stockings and socks which require only minor operations in order to complete them, the rates of duty are the same as for the completed articles, namely, in the case of silk articles 43⅓ per cent, ad valorem or 12s. the lb., whichever is the greater, subject to a maximum of 10s. per dozen pairs, and in the case of artificial silk articles 43⅓per cent, ad valorem or 5s. the 1b. In the case of goods entitled to preference lower rates of duty apply.