APPENDIX VI.— ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 



By a peculiar enactment, the raison d^etre of which is not obvious, the 

 I o per cent ad valorem duty levied at Adis Ababa on all articles of import 

 and export is I'educed at Harrar to 8 per cent. Naturally, therefore, the 

 majority of the merchants prefer to pa)- at the latter place, and thus the 

 bulk of the Shoan trade necessarily passes through it. The remainder goes 

 by an alternative route from Adis Ababa, which, leaving the Harrar track near 

 Tadechamalca, passes north of the boundaries of Harrar province direct 



