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Statistical notes on 



Additional Import Duties. The additional duties collected by the 

 Custom-houses are ij per cent, of the amount of the import duties, 

 which is levied for the respective municipality ; 2 per cent, of the same 

 duties, for harbor improvements ; and 2 per cent, in revenue stamps, 

 making in all 5! per cent, of the import duties. The custom-houses 

 collect besides the import duties, tonnage and light-house duties, and 

 pilot fees. 



Export Duty. Our export duties are levied upon cabinet and dye- 

 woods, india rubber, cochineal, coffee, henequen, ixtle, indigo, fequila, 

 jalap, tamarind, tobacco, mother-of-pearl, orchilla, vanilla, zacaton, 

 and onyx. 



The following statement shows the amount of export duties col- 

 lected in Mexico from the fiscal year 1881-1882 to 1894-1895, ex- 

 pressing the commodities in which they were collected : 



STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS FROM EXPORT DUTIES IN MEXICO FROM 

 JULY I, l88l, TO JUNE 30, 1895. 



Amount of Import Duties. It is very difficult to give a correct state- 

 ment of the receipts of the Mexican custom-houses before the year 

 1875. I append, however, one made from the reports of the Secre- 

 taries of the Treasury of Mexico, especially those of July 25, 1839, 

 and September 16, 1870, and completed from the years 1839-1851, 

 with data obtained from the Comercio exterior de Mexico^ D. Miguel 

 Lerdo de Tejada. From the fiscal year 1875-1876, the Statistical 

 Bureau of our Treasury Department began to publish detailed and 

 correct statements of the custom receipts, and I append one embracing 

 the fiscal years from 1875 to 1896 which shows how largely our im- 

 port duties have increased. In the ten years elapsed from 1878 to 

 1888 the increase was over 67 per cent, as compared with the corre- 



