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Example sentences for "dutiable"

Lexicographically close words:
dusun; dutches; dutchie; duteous; duteously; dutie; dutied; duties; dutiful; dutifull
  1. In addition to a raft of ordinary baggage, we had six or eight trunks which were filled exclusively with dutiable stuff--household goods purchased in Frankfort for use in Florence, where we had taken a house.

  2. Nobody was disturbing it; nobody was interested in it; all the family's attempts to get attention to it had failed--except in the case of one of the trunks containing the dutiable goods.

  3. Two or three times, at intervals, the officer asked me if I had anything dutiable about me, and seemed more and more put out and disappointed every time I told him no.

  4. Keepsakes and souvenirs are not dutiable and need not be shown.

  5. As for our minor rivers, they are multitudinous, and the dutiable commerce of disease which they carry is rich beyond the dreams of the American custom-house.

  6. He had never declared any dutiable baggage, entering New York alone, and it never occurred to him that he would need to do so now.

  7. They knew how he would fume and swear if he should be discovered with dutiable goods and held up in the Custom House, and they planned for this effect.

  8. It was a late hour when they were finally up to the dock, and Clemens, anxious to get through the Custom House, urged the inspector to accept his carefully prepared list of dutiable articles, without opening the baggage.

  9. The St. Lawrence lies wholly in Canada here, and the men have a right to land any goods they want to, dutiable or not.

  10. If there is nothing dutiable they are allowed to pass.

  11. Passengers on steamships coming from foreign countries are required to declare what dutiable goods they have among their baggage, each person being allowed to enter $100 worth of goods free of duty.

  12. Upon landing, their baggage is examined; trunks and valises are opened, and in suspected cases the persons of travelers are searched for concealed dutiable goods.

  13. Report from the committee on ways and means on bill to extend transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to the port of Sandusky.

  14. An act to extend the privileges of the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement to the port of Sandusky, Ohio.

  15. When asked if they had any dutiable articles, they declared that they had brought nothing with them that ought to pay duty.

  16. In spite of their best endeavors the inspectors were unable to find anything dutiable in the belongings of this charming family, and finally the young Frenchmen were permitted to go on their way with their mother and their belongings.

  17. The chief aim of the law is to secure honest valuations of all dutiable merchandise and to make these valuations uniform at all our ports of entry.

  18. He said he had; but the collector said that he could not, consistent with his duty, give him a clearance 'till all the dutiable articles were out of his ship.

  19. Though the collector, after the twentieth day, seized the dutiable article, as no one would sell it or pay the duty, it perished in the damp cellars where it was stored.

  20. Yet this officer is expected to pass the time agreeably year after year on a miserable pittance of three thousand dollars, without even the hope of ever seeing a dutiable cargo landed upon the wharves of the city.

  21. About one vessel with dutiable merchandise enters the Columbia in the course of half a dozen years, and certainly all sailing vessels have difficulty enough in getting in, without attempting to run away after they come to an anchor.

  22. It was moved by Mr. Woodbury to include sumach among the dutiable articles, on the ground that it was an article of home growth, and the cultivation of it for domestic manufacturing purposes ought to be encouraged.

  23. The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.

  24. The average ad valorem duty paid on dutiable goods imported during the year was 39.

  25. British Columbia, for example, for a long time complained that her subsidy was too small, one of the grounds being that her consumption of dutiable goods was unusually large.

  26. The consumer pays the tax on dutiable commodities, and a financially independent Ireland could not raise revenue twice over from the same commodity.

  27. All dutiable articles must be declared, no matter how small the quantity carried.

  28. The same tissues, bleached or printed: Dutiable as the tissue, with a surtax of 30 per cent.

  29. The same tissues, manufactured with dyed yarns: Dutiable as the tissue, with a surtax of 25 per cent.

  30. Importations from the United States are dutiable like other commodities.

  31. The same tissues, manufactured with dyed yarns: Dutiable as the tissue, with a surtax of 40 per cent.

  32. The same tissues, printed or manufactured with dyed yarns: Dutiable as the tissue, with a surtax of 30 per cent.

  33. The same tissues, bleached or printed: Dutiable as the tissue, with a surtax of 15 per cent.

  34. Passengers with no dutiable property in their possession may be permitted to land without detention.

  35. The same tissues, manufactured with dyed yarns: Dutiable as the tissue, with a surtax of 50 per cent.

  36. The proposed new tariff, which will probably go into effect next year, takes many articles off the free list and puts them on the dutiable list.

  37. Salvage from wrecked vessels is prima facie dutiable on appraised value according to its material.

  38. When containing three-fifths or more of silk the yarns shall be dutiable as untwisted silk.

  39. The same tissue, printed or manufactured with dyed yarns: Dutiable as the tissue, with a surtax of 40 per cent.

  40. But if the foreigner who made and sold the goods in question was liable to pay the duty on dutiable clothing, and attended to his duty, there would be no profit to the returning tourist in importing clothing free of duty.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dutiable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.