APPENDIX VI.— ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 



By a peculiar enactment, the raison d'etre of which is not obvious, the 

 10 per cent ad -'a lore in duty levied at Adis Ababa on all articles of import 

 and export is reduced at Harrar to 8 per cent. Naturally, therefore, the 

 majority of the merchants prefer to pay at the latter place, and thus the 

 bulk of the Shoan trade necessarily passes through it. The remainder goes 

 by an alternative route from Adis Ab.aba, which, leaving the Harrar track near 

 Tadcchamaica, passes north of the boundaries of Harrar province direct 



