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MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS, 1776-1917

Class II—Duty Free Goods

  • All animals used for food or draught
  • Anchors and Chain Cables
  • Coal
  • Clothing (Foreign) not being of articles named in this Tariff
  • Gold and Silver, coined and uncoined
  • Grain, including Rice, Paddy, Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye, Peas, Beans, Millet, Indian Corn
  • Flour and Meal prepared from the above
  • Oil Cake
  • Packing Matting
  • Printed Books
  • Salt
  • Salted Meats in Casks
  • Saltpetre
  • Solder
  • Tar and Pitch
  • Tea Firing pans and baskets
  • Tea Lead
  • Travelling Baggage

Class III—Prohibited Goods

  • Opium

Class IV—Goods Subject to an Ad Valorem Duty of Five Per Cent on Original Value

  • Arms and munitions of war
  • Articles de Paris
  • Boots and Shoes
  • Clocks, Watches and Musical Boxes
  • Coral. Cutlery.
  • Drugs and Medicines such as Ginseng, &c
  • Dyes
  • Porcelain and Earthenware
  • Furniture of all kinds new and second hand
  • Glass and Crystal Ware
  • Gold and Silver lace and thread
  • Gums and Spices not named in Tariff
  • Lamps. Looking Glasses.
  • Jewellery
  • Machinery and Manufactures in Iron or Steel
  • Manufactures of all kinds in Silk, Silk and Cotton, or Silk and Wool, as Velvets, Damasks, Brocades, &c.
  • Paintings and Engravings
  • Perfumery, Scented Soap
  • Plated Ware
  • Skins and Furs
  • Telescopes and Scientific Instruments
  • Timber
  • Wines, Malt and Spirituous Liquors
  • Table stores of all kinds
    • And all other Unenumerated Goods

Note—According to the VIIIth Article of the Convention of Yedo, a duty will be charged on the sale of Foreign Vessels to Japanese of three Boos per ton for Steamers, and one Boo per ton for Sailing Vessels. [Note in original.]