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MEXICO. 



IMPORT OF MERCHANDISE INTO THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND FRANCE 

 FROM MEXICO, AND EXPORT FROM THOSE COUNTRIES TO MEXICO. 



RECAPITULATION (MERCHANDISE). 

 Import from Mexico. 



Into the United States, 1859-80 inclusive $79,004,044 



Into the United Kingdom, 1859-'80 inclusive. . . . 87,005,285 

 Into France, 1859-'80 inclusive 



Total $192,838,149 



Export to Mexico. 



From the United States, 1859-'80 inclusive $136,709,506 



From the United Kingdom, 1859-'80 inclusive. . . 115,644,257 

 From France, 1859-'80 inclusive 118,002,542 



Total $370,856,305 



The principal Mexican products imported 

 into the United States, besides 'silver, during 

 the fiscal year 1882, were : 



Cochineal, indigo, and sarsaparilla $208,803 



Coffee, 17,020,669 pounds 1,817,584 



Dye-woods, 126,890 cwt 128,784 



Horse-hair, 199,295 pounds 88,810 



Hides and skins 1,525,107 



India-rubber. 825,206 pounds 164,847 



Mahogany and cedar 499,776 



Sisal hemp, 19,233 tons 2,061,939 



Sugar (raw), 2,931,649 pounds 1 02,147 



Lead, 1,132,064 pounds 44865 



Other goods 1,874,787 



Total $8,461,899 



The chief articles of domestic merchandise 

 exported from the United States to Mexico 

 in the same year were: Agricultural imple- 

 ments, living animals, malt liquors, flour, can- 

 dles, coal, cordage, cotton goods (these to the 

 amount of $2,566,790), drugs, glass-ware, iron 

 and steel manufactures (these to the amount 

 of $3,861,514), leather goods, petroleum, ord- 

 nance, paints, paper, quicksilver (824,759 

 pounds), provisions, soap, leaf-tobacco (1,094,- 

 018 pounds), wooden-ware ($1,426,411 worth), 

 etc., amounting together to $13,324,505. 



The commercial treaty negotiated between 

 the United States and Mexico by Messrs. Eo- 

 mero, Grant, Cafiedo, and Trescott, and signed 



January 20, 1883, still lacks ratification by 

 the Senate of the United States, debate on 

 which has been postponed to the next session 

 of Congress. Under its provisions the ensuing 

 Mexican articles of merchandise would enter 

 the United States duty free: Palm-oil, living 

 animals, indigo, quicksilver, sugar not over 

 No. 16 Dutch standard, coffee, lobsters, beef, 

 barley, leather-belting, raw-hides and skins, 

 esparto - grass, natural flowers, green fruit, 

 Sisal hemp, eggs, India-rubber, Tampico istle 

 (a fiber kindred to Sisal hemp, and used as a 

 substitute for bristles), jalap, all wood in the 

 rough, honey, orchilla, and all dye-woods and 

 tanning materials, straw, leaf-tobacco, vege- 

 tables, and sarsaparilla. 



By way of reciprocity, the ensuing American 

 manufactures and other products would enter 

 Mexico duty free: Accordions and harmoni- 

 cas, metallic wire for telegraphs, wire for 

 carding (No. 26 and upward), barbed -fence 

 wire, plows, spades, hoes and pickaxes, masts 

 and anchors, asbestos for roof-covering, oats, 

 quicksilver, sulphur, crow-bars, stoves, pumps 

 and fire-engines, lime, wooden and iron 

 houses complete, agricultural tools and imple- 

 ments, all sorts of tubing, coal, wire and vege- 

 table cards for machinery, carts, wheel- 

 barrows, coaches and railroad-cars, crucibles, 

 cutlasses for cane - cutting, diligences, dyna- 

 mite, staves, green fruit, guano, ice, iron and 

 steel rails, hyposulphite of soda, scientific 

 instruments, fire and other bricks, fire-wood, 

 printed books not completely bound, locomo- 

 tives, water-cocks, marble in the rough, mar- 

 ble slabs only polished on one side and not 

 over forty centimetres square, steam-engines, 

 sewing-machines, all industrial, agricultural, 

 mining, and scientific as well as artistic ma- 



