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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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French National Assembly decree prohibits manufactured tobacco imports and regulates leaf tobacco imports from the United States, Spanish colonies, Russia, and the Levant via specific ports and ships, imposing duties of 18-25 livres per quintal.
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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
The following is the DECREE on the importation and exportation of Tobacco, and on the duties on the importation thereof.
Article I. The importation of manufactured Tobacco is prohibited throughout the kingdom, nor shall it be imported in the leaf but in hogheads through the ports and in the ships hereafter mentioned.
II. Leaf Tobacco shall only be imported by sea from the United-States of America, the Spanish colonies, Russia and the Levant—these Tobaccos must be imported direct, that is those from the United States in ships of the said States, or in French ships—those from the Spanish colonies in Spanish or French ships—those from the Ukraine in Russian or French ships—those from the Levant in French ships only—all importation of the said Tobaccos in other bottoms is prohibited.
III. The importation of Tobacco from the United States, the Spanish colonies, the Ukraine and the Levant, shall only take place at the ports following, to wit: Bordeaux, Rochefort, La Rochelle, Nantes, L'Orient, Morlaix, St. Maloes, Granville, Honfleur, Cherbourg, Rouen, Havre-de-Grace, Dieppe, St. Valery on the Somme, Boulogne, Calais, Dunkirk, Marseilles, Toulon, Cette, Point-aux-Herbes.
IV. It is further permitted to import foreign Tobacco in the leaf and in good order whatever be the growth of it—through the custom-houses of Strasburg, Valenciennes and Lille, paying duties thereon of 25 livres per quintal.
V. The same duty of 25 livres per quintal shall be paid on all Tobaccos imported in the ships of the United States, Spain or Russia.
VI. A duty of only 18 livres 15 sols per quintal shall be paid on Tobaccos imported in French ships direct from the United States, the Spanish colonies, Russia or the Levant.
The assembly suspends the consideration of the importation of Tobaccos from the colonies of France ;—by the above regulation a hogshead of Tobacco imported in an American bottom into France pays about 12 dollars more than the same hogshead would do in a French ship.
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Primary Location
Paris
Event Date
April 1
Outcome
manufactured tobacco imports prohibited; leaf tobacco imports restricted to specific sources, ports, and ships with duties of 18 livres 15 sols to 25 livres per quintal; american ships pay higher duties than french ships.
Event Details
The National Assembly decrees prohibition on manufactured tobacco imports; leaf tobacco must be imported in hogheads from United States, Spanish colonies, Ukraine, and Levant via direct ships from those regions or French ships, only at listed ports; additional imports allowed via Strasburg, Valenciennes, and Lille at 25 livres per quintal; lower duty for French ships.