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AMERICAN LUMBER IN FOREIGN MARKETS. 

 IMPORTS AND DUTIES. 



The imports of pine lumber at Eio de Janeiro were as follows during 

 the years 1890, 1891, and 1892: 



The quantities of beams, masts, etc., and cabinet woods imported are 

 not available, but they are not large. The greater part of the beams 

 and masts are imported from the United States and the cabinet woods 

 from England and Germany. 



The import duty laid upon foreign lumber is as follows : 



Pieces of wood coming already cut, prepared, or adjusted for build- 

 ing houses or sheds, or for any other civil and naval purposes, pay from 

 the United States 33| per cent, from other countries 45 per cent ;ul 

 valorem; and any others from the United States 54 per cent, and from 

 other countries 72 per cent ad valorem. 



It is impossible to reduce the duty into United States currency owing 

 to the rapid fluctuations in the value of the Brazil milreis. 



PRICES. 



The prices of lumber here, as elsewhere, are subject to the law of 

 supply and demand and, it may be added in this case, to the fluctuations 



