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AMERICAN LUMBER IN FOREIGN MARKETS. 



It is hardly necessary to state that a very large proportion of the lum- 

 ber imported into the country comes from the United States. The 

 returns of imports for 1893 by countries have not yet been published 

 by the statistical office, but I give below those for 1892: 



Importations of pine lumber for 1892. 



Importations of woods for 1892. 



The total number of square feet of lumber imported into the Argentine 

 Eepublic in 1892 was 7,799,229, of a total official value of $3,201,707, 

 gold. 



The custom-house returns do not distinguish the different kinds of 

 pine which are embraced in the above figures for 1892, and I have no 

 means of finding out. For the year 1893, however, I observe from 

 Norton's U. S. Shipping List that the pine shipments to the Eiver 

 Plate were as follows: 32,377,000 feet of white pine, 42,116,000 feet of 

 spruce pine, 43,497,000 feet of pitch pine, and 972,000 feet of Oregon 

 pine, and probably this is about the usual proportion of each. 



DUTIES ON IMPORTED LUMBER. 



All ad valorem duties on articles imported into the Argentine Repub- 

 lic are liquidated according to their values as fixed by a custom-house 

 or valuation tariff. The duty on all lumber, no matter what maybe 

 the variety, is 25 per cent, except for un worked white pine or spruce, 



