2 5 2 



PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



IMPORT DUTY. 



The import duty on paper, etc., is as follows, per kilogram 

 (2.2046 pounds) : 



Articles. 



Duty. 



Pasteboard: 



Pressing board, sheathing, and roofing paper or felt 



Other kinds 



Paper: 



Sandpaper and emery paper 



Packing paper, wrapping paper, and other coarse paper not suited for 

 writing, drawing, or printing purposes. 



Gilt, silvered, or coated with other metals, or with colored surface coating, 

 including white glazed paper, and paper pasted on cotton or linen cloth... 



Other kinds, ruled paper included 



Paper hangings and borders 



Envelopes and paper bags. 



Manufactures of paper, pasteboard, and pulp, not specified: 



Not japanned 



Japanned, bronzed, gilt, or silvered 



Pulp 



Kroner. 



o.oi 



05 



Free. 



2 5 

 3 



So 



2.OO 



Free. 



Cents. 

 0.268 

 i-34 



-53 



5.36 

 2.68 



6-7 

 8.04 



13-4 

 53-6 



Pasteboard or cardboard composed of two or several sheets of 

 paper pasted together (lamellar) must pay duty as paper. 



Bouquet paper made partly of cloth or trimmed with lace, rib- 

 bons, etc., is classified with manufactured goods not specially pro- 

 vided for (15 per cent ad valorem). 



No deduction in weight is allowed for the immediate covering of 

 the goods in question. 



The town dues for paper, etc., imported at Gothenburg amount 

 to i per cent of the import duty on the goods. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



I do not think that the American manufacturers will be able to 

 sell wood pulp or coarse kinds of paper to Sweden, unless the prices 

 are very low. From the foregoing tables, it has been learned that 

 these articles are produced in comparatively large quantities in this 

 country. The processes and methods of manufacture are also im- 

 proving. It is reported that a large wood-pulp mill is now being 

 built, where the pulp will be bleached by electricity, and that a paper 

 mill is under construction at Donnarfoet, which will be the largest 

 in Europe and able to produce 30,000 tons of printing papei and 

 wall paper per year. Better classes of writing paper, envelopes, 

 congratulation cards, and Christmas and New Year's cards of Amer- 

 ican manufacture may be sold here, if the prices do not exceed those 

 demanded by German or English exporters for articles of same qual- 

 ity. I am told that the Atlantic liners carry goods at such low rates 

 that the transportation charges from Boston or New York would be 



