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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [54 STAT. Description of Articles Column 1 Minimum Column 2 preferential Maximum rates of duty. reduction Specific rates in United to Cuba States dollars those in effect on August 24, 1934. For the purposes of this note, the quantity (un- stemmed equivalent) of unstemmed filler tobacco shall be its actual net weight as determined for the assessment of duties or taxes in the United States, and the quan- tity (unstemmed equivalent) of stemmed filler and scrap tobacco shall be 133 per centum of the actual net weight as de- termined for the assessment of duties or taxes in the United States. 605 Cigars and cheroots of all kinds 771 White or Irish potatoes (other than certified seed potatoes) when imported and entered for consumption during the period from December 1 in any year to the last day of the following February, inclusive 802 Rum, in containers holding each one gallon or less 20% 2.25 per lb. and 12%% ad valo- rem 50% 0.30 per 100 lbs. 20% 2.00 per proof gal lon ARTICLE III Equal treatment imports. 49 Btat. 3564. 49 Stat. 8670. 49 Stat. 36 of Article VIII of the Agreement of August 24, 1934, is amended to read as follows: Articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America or the Republic of Cuba shall, after importation into the other country, be exempt from all internal taxes, fees, charges or exactions other or higher than those payable on like articles of national or any other foreign origin, subject, in the case of the United States of America, to the constitutional limitations on the authority of the Federal Government. Articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the United States of America enumerated and described in Schedule I annexed to this Agreement, with respect to which a rate of duty is specified in Column 2 of the said Schedule, shall be exempt from all other duties, taxes, fees, charges or exactions, in excess of those imposed on September 3, 1934, or required to be imposed thereafter by laws of the Republic of Cuba in force on September 3, 1934. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply, however, to the tax of 1% percent on gross sales and incomes referred to in Decree-Law No. 393 of November 8, 1935, or to any increase which may be made in the general rate of such tax. Articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the Republic of Cuba enumerated and described in Schedule II annexed to this Agreement shall, on their importation into the United States of America, be exempt from all duties other than ordinary customs duties and all taxes, fees, charges or exactions, imposed on or in connection with importation, in excess of those imposed on September 3, 1934, or required to be imposed thereafter by laws of the United States of America in force on September 3, 1934. Tariff Act of 1930 Para- graph

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