[Office Correspondence letterhead] [November] 6, 1914 Mr. Rotter: We have received a letter from the Treasury Department at Washington, advising us as to the duty on castings which we might import from Europe. Two paragraphs apply to such importations as follows: Paragraph 125: �Cast iron pipe of every descriptions, cast-iron andirons, plates, stove plates, sadirons, tailor�s irons, hatter�s irons, and castings and vessels wholly of iron, including all castings of iron on cast-iron plates which have been chiseled, drilled, machined, or otherwise advanced in condition by processes or operations subsequent to the casting process but not made up into articles or finished machine parts; castings of malleable iron not specially provided for in this section; cast hollow-ware, coated, glazed, or tinned, 10 per centum ad valorem.� Paragraph 167: �Articles or wares not specially provided for in this section; if composed wholly or in part of platinum, gold, or silver, and articles or wares plated with gold or silver, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, 50 per centum ad valorem; if composed wholly or in chief value of iron, steel, lead, copper, brass, nickel, pewter, zinc, aluminum, or other metal, but not plated with gold or silver, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, 20 per centum ad valorem.� It would seem to me that paragraph 125 above covers any rough turned castings we might import, in case the castings did not come in duty free, owing to the fact that they are for a Government vessel. JRH-LM. 1st V.P. & Gen. Mgr. CC FPB �DG Mr. Boyd: Kindly keep in your file the attached correspondence with the Treasury Department on the above subject. The Tariff Act of Oct. 3, 1913, has been handed to Mr. Garrett to keep on file for ready reference. J.R.Harris. On Mr. Boyd�s copy only.
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