COST OF PRODUCTION 



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PARA 



FEDERAL TERRITORIES 



The value of rubber for the payment of duties is 

 announced officially weekly, or more often if any violent 

 fluctuations occur in the price. 



There is a very great difference in these charges. At 

 Para the taxation is equal to 5*80 pence per pound of 

 rubber; at Manaos 4*60 pence; and for rubber from 

 the Federal Territories only 4*40 pence per pound is 

 paid. Rubber from Matto Grosso is subject to the 

 export duty of 18 per cent., the port office charges, dock 

 dues, and the additional 2 per cent, tax if shipped from 

 Para, but is exempt from the 2\ per cent, financial 

 impost and from the municipal and bourse contributions. 

 These charges compare with an export duty of 2j per 

 cent, in the Federated Malay States ; a tax on the trees 

 in bearing equivalent to 2j per cent, on production in 



