Amendments to Philippine Tariff Act of 1909

January 22, 1931

ACT NO. 3818

AN ACT AMENDING FURTHER CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF ACT OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINE RELATING TO CHARGES FOR WHARFAGE

SECTION 1. Section fourteen of the Philippine Tariff Act of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-four hundred and twenty-nine, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 14. That there shall be levied and collected upon all articles, goods, wares, or merchandise, except coal, timber, cement, guano, the minerals and ores of copper, lead, zinc, iron and steel metals, refractory gold ores, and sugar molasses, the product of the Philippine Islands, exported through ports of entry of the Philippine Islands, or shipped therefrom to the United States or any of its possessions, a duty of one dollar per gross ton of one thousand kilos, as a charge for wharfage, whatever be the port of destination or nationality of the exporting vessel: Provided, That articles, goods, wares, or merchandise imported, exported or shipped in transit for the use of the Government of the United States, or of that of the Philippine Islands, shall be exempt from the charges prescribed in this section."

SECTION 2. All acts and regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. When this Act shall have been approved by the President of the United States, as provided in section nine of the Act of Congress of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, such fact shall be made known by proclamation of the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, and this Act shall take effect on the date of the proclamation. ¹

Approved, January 22, 1931.

Footnotes

1. Declared in force by Proclamation No. 358 (1931).