Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BRITISH PREFERENTIAL TARIFF. APPLYING AT PRESENT TO THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The British colony of Bermuda; The British colonies commonly called the British West Indies, including the following:— The Bahamas; Jamaica; Turks and Caicos Islands; The Leeward Islands (Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis, Dominica, Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands); The Windward Islands (Grenada, St. Vincent and St. Lucia); British India; Barbados; Ceylon; Trinidad and Tobago; New South Wales; British Guiana; Straits Settlements. Any other British colony or possession the customs tariff of which is, on the whole, as favorable to Canada as the British preferential tariff herein referred to is to such colony or possession. "On articles entitled to the benefits of this preferential tariff under section seventeen, the duties mentioned in schedule A shall be reduced as follows:— On a.nd after the first day of July, 1898, until the first day of July, 1900, the reduction shall be one-fourth of the duty mentioned in schedule A, and the duty to be levied, collected and paid shall be three-fourths of the duty mentioned in schedule A. On and after the second day of July, 1900, the reduction shall jin every case be one-third of the duty mentioned in schedule A, and the duty to be levied, collected and paid shall be two-thirds of the duty mentioned in schedule A. Provided, however, that this reduction shall not apply to any of the following articles and that such articles shall in all cases be subject to the duties mentioned in schedule A, viz.:—Wines, malt liquors, spirits, spirituous liquors, liquid medicines and articles containing alcohol; tobacco, cigars aud cigarettes. Provided further, that the reduction shall only apply to refined sugar...