Vessels admit ted on the same can vessels. CHAPTER XXXIV. COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.1 641. Vessels belonging to the following nations terms as Ameri- are admitted, under the provisions of law, treaties. of commerce and navigation, or conventions, into the ports of the United States, on the same terms as American vessels, with the produce or manufactures of their own or any other country: vored nation." Argentine Confederation, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, (Denmark,2) Ecuador, Great Britain, Greece, New Granada, Guatemala, Hanover, Hanse-Towns, (Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubec,) MecklenburgSchwerin, Netherlands, Oldenburg, Peru, Prussia, Russia, San Salvador, Sardinia, Sweden and Norway, Tuscany, Two Sicilies, Venezuela. "The most fa- 642. Vessels belonging to the following nations, with which the United States have reciprocal treaties on the footing of "the most favored nations," or with which reciprocity exists by virtue of an act of Congress of the 24th day of May, 1828, are adEqualization of mitted into the ports of the United States on the navigation Same terms, as respects tonnage or navigation duties, as.American vessels, with the produce or manufac tonnage or dues. 1 Compiled from General Regulations of the Treasury Department, and from other official authorities. 2 The treaty between the United States and Denmark expired on the 14th day of April, 1856. 3 By decree of December 18, 1854, equality with the national flag is offered by the government of the Two Sicilies to the vessels of such nations as reciprocate the favor. This equality applies to the direct and indirect trade. tures of their own or any other country: Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Muscat, Ottoman Empire, Port ugal, and Uruguay.1 lations of Uni 643. In respect to the commercial relations be- Commercial retween the United States and Great Britain, since the ted States and repeal of the navigation laws of the latter nation in Great Britain. 1849, (carried into effect on and after the 1st day of January, 1850,2) the Treasury Department issued, under date of October 15, 1849, the following general instructions, for the information of the officers of the customs, and others interested: First. In consequence of the alterations of the British navigation laws, above referred to, British vessels, from British or other foreign ports, will, (under our existing laws,) after the first of January next, be allowed to enter in our ports with cargoes of the growth, manufacture, or production of any part of the world. Second. Such vessels and their cargoes will be admitted, from and after the date before mentioned, on the same terms as to duties, imports, and charges, as vessels of the United States and their cargoes. Vessels of the United States are permitted to Japan. enter the ports of Simoda and Hakodade, in Japan, where they can be supplied with wood, water, provisions, and coal, and other articles their necessities may require; but these articles can be procured only through the agency of Japanese officers appointed for that purpose, and in no other manner. : 1 By a law of Uruguay, of June 17, 1854, similar privileges are granted to vessels of the United States. 2 By virtue of this act (12 and 13 Victoria, chap. 29) the comprehensive principle was established of admitting into Great Britain, or into any British possession, goods of any sort, in a ship of any country, from any part of the world. Equality in direct trade. French vessels. French vessels from Marti Guadaloupe. If there be any other sort of goods wanted, or any business which shall require to be arranged, there shall be careful deliberation between the parties in order to settle such matters. 644. Vessels belonging to the following nations are admitted into ports of the United States on the same terms as American vessels, only when laden with the produce or manufactures of the country to which such vessels respectively belong: Hawaiian Islands, Portugal and her colonies, and the Pontifical States 645. French vessels enjoy an equality as to import duties and charges in the direct trade, the origin of cargoes being attested by consular certificate, but they are subject to a tonnage duty of ninety-four cents per ton of the vessel's passport. French vessels laden with the produce of Marnique and tinique and Guadaloupe are admitted on equal terms with American vessels, as to duty and tonnage, when direct from these islands in ballast or with articles the growth or manufacture of either of said islands, so long as the French ordinance of February 5, 1826, shall continue in force. Cayenne. St. Pierre and Portuguese. French vessels from Cayenne, in French Guiana, are admitted with the same privileges granted above, under the act of May 9, 1828, to vessels from Martinique and Guadaloupe. French vessels from St. Pierre and Miquelon, admitted on the same footing as vessels from Martinique and Guadaloupe. Vessels of Portugal, when bringing articles the growth, production, or manufacture of countries other than Portugal or her dependencies, are not liable to the penalties provided by the navigation act of 1st March, 1817, the articles so brought being entitled to entry on the payment of the appropriate rates of duty; but the exemption from duty of tea and coffee in certain cases, as provided in schedule I of the tariff act of 1846, does not extend to cases of the importation of those articles in vessels of Portugal. to tonnage and 646. Vessels belonging to the following nations, Vessels subject having no reciprocal treaties with the United States, discriminating are subject to tonnage and discriminating duty on duties. their cargoes as foreign vessels, whether laden with the produce or manufactures of their own or any other country: Hayti, and Spain. Haytien vessels are subject to a duty of one dollar Hayti. per ton.1 from Spain. Spanish vessels from the ports of Spain or her Spanish vessels European islands are liable to a tonnage duty of five cents per ton, that being the rate of duty charged on vessels of the United States arriving in such Spanish ports, and ten per cent. "additional duty" on the cargo, as provided in the 11th section of the tariff act of 1842. from Cuba and Porto Rico. Spanish vessels from Cnba, in ballast, or laden with Spanish vessels molasses, are not subject to tonnage duty, (but are subject to ten per cent. additional duty on the cargo,) provided they have a consular certificate that no tonnage duty is exacted there on American vessels in ballast, or when laden with molasses. Spanish vessels from Cuba and Porto Rico, (except as above,) are subject to tonnage duty, from Cuba, $1.50 per ton; Porto Rico, 87 cents per ton, 1 The differential duty of ten per cent. levied in Hayti upon the vessels of non-treaty nations was abolished as to the Uuited States, May 9, 1850, (vide Senate Ex. Doc., No. 52, 32d Congress, 2d session.) Canary Islands. and ten per cent. additional duty; also a discriminating duty equal to the export duty to which an American vessel would have been liable in those islands over a Spanish vessel; and before clearing, directly or indirectly, for either of those islands, such further duty as an American vessel on a similar cargo would be liable to pay more than a Spanish vessel in the same ports. The laws of 13th July, 1832, and 30th June, 1834, contemplate and require Spanish vessels coming from any port or place in the islands of Cuba or Porto Rico, to pay in the ports of the United States the same rate of duty on tonnage that shall be levied on American vessels at the port in the said islands from whence such Spanish vessels shall have last departed; and likewise such further tonnage duty as shall be equivalent to the amount of discriminating duty that would have been imposed on the cargoes imported in the same vessels, respectively, if the same had been exported from the port of Havana in American bottoms. It consequently follows, that where no tonnage or discriminating duty on the cargoes of American vessels entering and departing from ports or places in the island of Cuba is imposed and collected thereat, Spanish vessels coming from such ports or places are similarly treated, as regards tonnage duty, in the ports of the United States. 647. The ports of Santa Cruz de Teneriffe, Orotana, Ciudad Real de los Palmas, Aneciffe de Langarole, Puerto de Cabras, and San Sebastian, in the Canary Islands, having been declared free by royal decree, proclaimed on the 10th October, 1852, and vessels of the United States and their cargoes arriving in |