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COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Measurement or weight, whichever mode of computation shall in 

 each case be capable of yielding the larger wharfage duties. 



The falling offin both quantity and value in 1883 is owing to a larger 

 importation about the close of 1887 to escape the new duties in pros- 

 pective. 



CORNS. MAY, 



Vice- Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Sierra Leone, October 16, 1889. 



EGYPT. 



REPORT BY CONSUL-GENERAL SCHUYLER, OF CAIRO. 



The trade in foreign cotton textiles is almost entirely in the hands of 

 British importing houses at Alexandria, who are very jealous of com- 

 petition. I had hoped to obtain some information from a friend con- 

 nected with one of these merchants, but he had at last to confess to me 

 his inability to give me what I wished, as he was " flouted and jeered 

 at, and accused of being unpatriotic, and of taking part in the con- 

 spiracy to substitute American for British goods in the Egyptian 



market.* 7 



EUGENE SCHUYLER, 



Consul- General. 

 UNITED STATES AGENCY AND CONSULATE-GENERAL, 



Cairo, November 29, 1889. 



Note by the Department : The exports of British cottons to Egypt were as follows during the 



year 1888 : 



