Section 2
Sec. 2. Section fourteen of the Philippine Tariff Act of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended by Acts Numbered Thirty-four hundred and twenty-nine, Thirty-eight hundred and eighteen, Thirty-nine hundred and seventeen, and Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred, and thirty-two, is further attended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 14. That there shall be levied and collected upon all articles, goods, wares, or merchandise, except coal, lumber, creosoted, and other pressure treated materials as well as other minor forest products, cement, guano, natural rock asphalt, the minerals and ores of copper, lead, zinc, iron, and steel metals, refractory gold ores, and sugar molasses, the products of the Philippines, exported through ports of entry of the Philippines, or shipped therefrom to the United States or any of its possession, a duty of one dollar per gross ton of one thousand kilos, as a charge for liar fage, irrespective of-the port of destination or nationality of the exporting vessel. In the case of logs, or flitches twelve inches square or equivalent cross-sectional area, or over, a charge of thirty cents per cubic meter shall be collected. All articles, goods, wares, or merchandise imported, exported, or "shipped in transit for the use of the Government of the United States, or of that of the Philippines, shall be exempt from"the charge prescribed in this section."