667n.003/15: Telegram
The Consul at Jerusalem (Heizer) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:47 a.m.]
New customs duties amendment ordinance increasing considerably rate on imported articles published August 15th, and duty collected under new schedule from August 18th. Some instances of special [Page 200] interest are herewith: coffee 150 piastres; flour 17.5 piastres; vegetable fats 75 piastres; margarine 125 piastres per hundred kilograms; kerosene, [omission?] .6 piastres gallon; motor spirits 4 piastres gallon; Diesel solar crude oil 60 piastres ton; confectionery, jam, preserved fruit, 20 percent; wood for furniture 100 piastres cubic meter; sole leather Egyptian 130, other countries 200 piastres per hundred kilograms; matches 20 piastres gross of boxes of 10 thousand; pure alcohol and spirits, 60 piastres gallon; charcoal and anthracite 50 piastres; other coal 30 piastres ton; mother of pearl shells 8 percent; bicycles, motor cycles, trucks, carts, automobiles, tires, accessories, musical instruments, photographic apparatus, typewriters, all 15 percent; snuff 15 piastres; tobacco uncut 50 piastres, manufactured and cigarettes 60 piastres; cigars, chewing tobacco 65 piastres per kilogram. Cereals and building material about the same. Most other goods not mentioned 12 percent ad valorem plus 1 percent octroi.