G30 U. S Consul 3IcDougaIVs JReport on Oils and Jute at Dundee. 



30th September, 1877," which shows a marked decrease during that period. 1 

 liave also added the decrease for 187G, which makes an enormous falling-off in 

 just two years. I may mention that four-fifths of the total valuation is for jute 

 goods of every sort, but generally of a coarse quality. 



Abstract. 



" I have also, at this point, to note the fact that a large proportion of the 

 total value of these exports is for goods (burlaps principally) sent to the United 

 States on consignment instead of on actual sale. This has come about by the 

 American firms who are represented here by their own houses or agents declining 

 to pur(;hase. ]Manufacturers have thereby been compelled to ship their merchan- 

 dise themselves to keep their establishments moving and from acquiring stock. 

 Business being thus forced has had a disastrous effect on prices in the United 

 States, and the account sales have ad\ised in these cases a Avide discrepancy 

 between the i)rices realii:ed and the actual cost thereof." 



By again turning to the importation of jute into Dundee from 18G1 to 1877 

 (former statement left off at 18C0) a glance at the undernoted statement will show 

 Ijow the trade has develo])ed in these years. 



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