460, REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Import duties in foreign countries. — The rates of duty imposed on 

 fishery products imported for consumption in the United States do not 

 greatly differ from the average in other countries. Of European coun- 

 tries, the average rates of duty in Austria, France, Greece, Eussia, Spain, 

 and Switzerland are somewhat higher, while the average in Denmark, 

 Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden is generally less. 

 There are no duties on fishery products imported into Great Britain, and 

 most articles are admitted free into Belgium. On the American conti- 

 nent, the specific rates of duty in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Puerto 

 Eico, Mexico, Nicaragua, Salvador, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, 

 Colombia, Uruguay, and Venezuela average greater than in the United 

 States, while the duties are less in Canada, the Bahamas, Barbados, 

 Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Dutch West Indies, 

 French West Indies, British Honduras, Ecuador, British Guiana, and 

 Peru. In Australia the specific duties are greater than on similar 

 products in the United States, but the ad valorem duties are much less, 

 averaging only about 12 per cent. In French Oceanica, China, Korea, 

 Siani, Japan, Ceylon, and British New Guinea the import duties are 

 very much less than in the United States. 



Table 18 shows approximately the rates of duty imposed on the prin- 

 cipal fishery products imported into certain foreign countries, and is 

 arranged so as to compare readily with the present rates of duty on 

 similar products imported into the United States. The comparative 

 rates of duty imposed in each foreign country on each of the principal 

 fishery products are shown in succeeding tables. 



18. Comparative statement showing approximately the rales of duty imposed on fishery 

 products imported into certain countries. 



((Smoked, $1. 



