90 PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



DUTY.* 



The import duties are as follows, per 100 kilograms (220.46 

 pounds) : 



Articles. 



Machine-made paper , 



Hand-made paper, rough edges. 

 Fancy papers: 



White or colored 



Covered with metal in leaf or metallic powder. 



Paper hangings 



Sulphurated paper... 

 Photographic paper: 



Nonsensitive.. 

 Sensitive 



Cardboard (rough) in sheets and weighing not less than 350 grams per square meter. 



Papier-mache 



Cardboard: 



Cut or prepared , 



Cut and in boxes- 

 Tubes .... 



Decorated or painted 



Duty. 



Francs. 

 13 



$2.509 

 2.895 



6.948 

 13-896 

 2.509 

 4-825 



24.125 



43-4 2 5 



2.509 



2.316 



3.667 

 8.685 



4.825 

 J7-37 



As there are no. direct importations, no statistics on this subject 

 exist. What is imported, however, comes from England. 

 There are no exports of paper from Nice. 



TRANSPORTATION. 



Mail and telegraphic facilities are very good. 



The freight rates from Lyons to Nice are, for paper, 52.10 francs 

 ($10. 055) per ton and 38 francs ($7.334) in carloads. I mention the 

 rate from Lyons, as the greater part of the paper used here comes 

 from that neighborhood. It should be remarked in this connection 

 that, so far as I am able to ascertain, the freight for paper from New 

 York to Marseilles ought not to be more than 35 to 40 francs ($6.75 

 to $7.72) per ton. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



After having made several inquiries, I should say that it would 

 not be difficult to inaugurate a trade in American paper. In such 

 case, it would be necessary to forward a complete series of samples 

 to a commission house, with prices and quotations of freight rates 

 from New York to Marseilles. At the moment of completing this 

 report I am informed that the Societe des Forces Motrices (see my re- 

 port in Commercial Relations before referred to) is considering a 

 project for building a paper-pulp manufactory. 



After careful inquiry, I find that other consulates here do nothing 



*See SPECIAL CONSULAR REPORTS Tariffs in Foreign Countries, part i, page 164, for full details 

 showing duties on paper imported into France. 



