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TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE UNITED STATES

SCHEDULE 3. - TEXTILE FIBERS AND TEXTILE PRODUCTS Part 1. - Textile Fibers and Wastes; Yarns and Threads

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Rates of Duty Articles

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Subpart B. - Vegetable Fibers, Except Cotton Subpart B headnote: 1.

For the purposes of the tariff schedules — (a) the term "veaetable fiber" means veaetable fiber which can be spun and Includes fiber chiefly used for padding and stuffing (such as kapoK and crln vegetal), but does not Include vegetable fiber chiefly used in the manufacture of brushes and brooms (see part 15 of schedule II; (b) the term "raw" means the fiber as obtained from the plant source, or such fiber which has been merely dried, sorted, or graded. This subpart does not cover the plant or part of the plant from which the fiber is obtained (see part 15 of schedule 11; (c) the term "hemp" means fiber derived from the plant Cannabis satlva; and Id) the term "jute" means fiber derived from the plants of the Corchorus species, of Hibiscus cannabinus. or of Urena lobata.

Vegetable fibers (except cotton), raw; wastes and advanced wastes of such fibers; and vegetable fibers (except cotton) including fiber blends in chief value of such fibers, processed (except roving) but not spun: Abaca: Free 8% ad val. Free 0.50 per lb.

Free 205^ ad val. Free 10 per lb.

0.255; per lb. 0.10 per lb.

1.50 per lb. 10 per lb.

0.250 per lb. 0.60 per lb. 8^ ad val.

1.50 per lb. 30 per lb. 2 0 ^ ad val.

0.40 per lb.

20 per lb.

0.40 per lb. 0.40 per lb. %% ad val.

20 per lb. 3.50 per lb. 205^ ad val.

Free

Free

1,50 per lb. 1 0 ^ ad val.

1.50 per lb. 2 0 ^ ad val.

Free 8% ad val.

Free 2 0 % ad val.

Free %% ad val.

Free 205^ ad val.

Free %% ad val.

Free 2 0 % ad val.

Free 8% ad val.

304.02 304.04 304.06 304.08

Free 2 0 % ad val.

Free 8S^ ad val.

Free 2 0 % ad val.

Flax: 304.10 304.12 Processed: 304.l4 304.16 304.18 Hemp: 304.20 Processed; 304.22 304.24 304.26 Jute (including jute butts): 304.32 Processed: 304.34 304.36 Kapok: 304.38 304.40 Ramie: 304.42 304.44 Sisal and henequen: 304.46 304.48 Sunn: 304.50 304.52 Other: 504.56 304.58