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Show IMPORTERS PREPARING TO ENTER PROTEST SAM PL'ANCISCO, March The announcement thai Port Collector St rat ton will assess the maximum tariff on all goods imported from China on and after April .1 and collect tho highest high-est duty on all merchandise in bonded warehouses on which tho tax has not been paid stirred commercial circles yesterday and importers, it is said, are preparing to enter protests. Oriental inercliandiso valued at almost al-most $2,000,000 is stored in bonded warehouses here aud the steamship Siberia Si-beria is duo Pridav morning immediately immediate-ly after the maximum tariff goes into effect.. It may mean, it is estimated, an increased "duty of $50,000 on the cargo. Tho maximum duly which will be, levied on imports from China is 25 per cent liighcr than the minimum, which forms the basis of tho schedule fixed by the Payne tariff law. Should the action taken on the merchandise in tlic warehouse by Collector Sfrattou be sustained sus-tained by the treasury department it will make a difference to Pacific coast importers of about $250,000. |