ART. 178. The cargo, on being transported from shipboard to the wharf, shall be confided to the supervision of a guard, who shall accompany each lighter to the wharf. The goods shall thereupon be placed under the control of the Customs service and of the Director of the wharf, who will be required to give the corresponding discharge. ART. 179. Owners and brokers of lighters, barges, and other craft of small tonnage, proceeding from Tumbes, Sechura, and other ports of the northern coast of Peru, shall not be required to furnish manifests and invoices, provided that they do not transport manufactured goods. ART. 180. Goods arriving in ports of the Republic and unaccompanied by Consular invoices shall be detained in the Customs warehouse until production of such documents, but so soon as the detailed manifest is presented and the request for clearance made the goods shall be delivered to the importer, after all the packages have been previously opened and examined, and subject to a bond, deemed sufficient by the Administrator, being furnished to guarantee the payment of the estab lished duties and surtaxes, in case, on arrival of the invoice or copy thereof, the declaration should not tally therewith. ART. 181. Invoices of goods imported for or addressed to the Government as well as postal parcels shall be exempt from the Consular visé fee. ART. 182. To facilitate Customs operations and in case of doubt as to the interpretation of Customs formalities the Executive, after taking the advice of the Council of State, is authorized to decide thereon. ART. 183. Should, in default of invoices or if the contents of the packages be unknown, it be impossible for the merchant to draw up the detailed manifest of the goods, he may, within six working days from the vessel's arrival, request the Administrator to cause the invoice to be established by the Controller and one Examiner, on payment of a fee of from 5 to 100 sucres, which the Administrator shall allow to them according to the importance of the supplementary work furnished. Such invoice shall be attached to the application for clearance, and the Administrator must cause the goods to be verified by an officer other than the Examiner who assisted in drawing up the invoice. ART. 184. With the view of protecting the interests of the Treasury, all necessary formalities relative to import and export documents may be imposed on commerce. The Consular invoices addressed to the competent Ministry must be transmitted monthly to the "Tribunal de Cuentas" for examination. SECTION XIV.-TEMPORARY DISPOSITIONS. ART. 185. The Executive is empowered to regulate imports and exports through the frontier custom-house of Macará. ART. 186. The Executive is authorized, in concurrence with Council of State, to increase up to 50 per cent the Customs duties fixed in the present tariff on importation of products of the soil and industry of such countries as, not having signed a Commercial Treaty with Ecuador, should apply their maximum tariff to products of the soil and industry of the Republic. ART. 187. The Executive may, in concurrence with the Council of State, reduce the import duties leviable on sugar, alimentary pastes and flour, when the trade in these products becomes a monopoly and a cause of abuse on the part of merchants in the country. ART. 188. All Laws and Decrees contrary to the present Law are hereby amended or repealed. . ART. 189. The Minister of Finance shall codify the articles of the present Customs Law, subject to taking into account any amendments made thereto and carefully modifying any inaccurate stipulations. ART. 190. The present Law shall enter into force on January 1, 1904. Alphabetical table of the goods specified in the tariff law, showing classification respectively applicable thereto. Alphabetical table of the goods specified in the tariff law, showing classification respectively applicable thereto-Continued. Alphabetical table of the goods specified in the tariff law, showing classification respectively applicable thereto-Continued. a If lined with silk, it shall pay the special rate of 2 sucres per kilo. When with gilt or silvered ornaments or imitation precious stones they shall be dutiable as imitation jewelry. |