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PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



For American paper and for articles manufactured from reaper, as 

 also for all articles of American manufacture, there is an opening in 

 this country. There is a demand for every variety of manufactured 

 goods (with the exception, in this district, of stoves for heating pur- 

 poses, overcoats, and agricultural machinery). In order to compete 

 with European manufacturers, our merchants must be content with 

 smaller profits and offer their goods at prices at least as low as their 

 European competitors Higher prices are asked for American goods 

 in this market than for similar kinds and qualities of English or 

 German manufactures. I say similar kinds and equally good qual- 

 ities in order to anticipate a possible reply that American goods aie 

 of superior quality to the cheaper article manufactured in Europe. 

 If the American article is undeniably better than the European, it will 

 be taken at its real value, for there is a market here for the best of 

 everything. 



The sending of advertising circulars and of commercial travelers 

 to this country is not, in practice, attended with the results desired. 

 Every importer of American goods in this city has his agent in the 

 United States generally in New York by whom all purchases are 

 made. He has carte blanche to buy in the open market, not only in 

 New York, but in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, or elsewhere, such 

 goods in any particular line as his principal in this city requires. 

 Our merchants should treat directly with the agent, to whom they 

 can show their wares and with whom they can arrange the terms of 

 sale. 



IMPORT DUTIES. 



The following schedule gives the import duties on various classes 

 of paper under the tariff which went into effect January i, 1898: 



Free list. Printing paper, wrapping paper, sandpaper, emery 

 paper, paper in ribbons for telegraphic uses, paper for sheathing 

 vessels. 



