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There are eight leading paper firms, companies, and brokers in 

 Hamburg: L. Apel, Ed. Hadeler, Ferd. Flinsch, Julius Post, Wal- 

 demar Prommel, Sieler & Vogel, Latendorf & Scharlau, Aug. 

 Schauenburg. 



The total number of printers and publishers in Hamburg is 127, 

 but the statistics do not specify the number of printers and the num- 

 ber of publishers, giving only the total of the two branches combined. 



The following figures show that the consumption of paper is likely 

 to increase: 



The nationalities dominating the paper trade can be seen from the 

 statistics of import. 



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OUTLOOK FOR AMERICAN TRADE. 



The United States would meet with strong competition as follow3 : 

 Germany and England in writing paper and cheap imitations of high- 

 grade paper; England in high-grade fancy paper; Austria in fancy 

 paper; Germany and Sweden in printing paper (newspapers, period- 

 icals, and book printing). 



There are no paper manufactories in this consular district, or 

 facilities for making paper machinery. 



It is held by those who are actively engaged with the home and 

 export paper trade in Hamburg that the United States can success- 

 fully compete with the German trade only when our manufacturers 

 are compelled to sell their overproduction, and they seem to prefer 

 to put this overproduction in the hands of one or two London firms, 

 who sell the goods far under the standard value, instead of offering 

 the same systematically, if only a little under the actual trade prices, 

 to English and German consumers. It is claimed also that American 

 manufacturers can not compete in this country, on account of the 



