68 COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



any figures ; all kinds and qualities, from the lightest to the heaviest, 

 are imported. 



HOW PURCHASED. 



Goods are purchased by order from samples on six months' credit, 

 with interest added. 



PLACE OF MANUFACTURE. 



The great bulk of staple cotton goods imported here is manufactured 

 in England and shipped from Liverpool and Southampton. Many of 

 the finer fabrics are made in France and are imported from Havre and 

 St. Nazaire. The cheaper light-weight staple goods come from Ger- 

 many through the port of Hamburg. About all the ducks, drills, 

 denims, and first-class heavy-weight white goods come from the United 

 States and all are imported from New York. The English and French 

 prints are much superior to those of the United States in delicacy and 

 variety of figure and color, and hence those countries import quite all 

 of that class of goods. 



DUTIES. 



Duties are levied on the gross weight of packages, and an additional 

 tax of 12 per cent, on the amount of duty collected is levied for inter- 

 nal revenue. These duties vary according to the quality of goods, as 

 follows : 



Canvas, duck, twine, furniture cloths and sails pay $6.63 per 100 

 pounds. 



Brown cottons, unbleached osnaburgs, and domestic and regatta 

 stripes pay $10.06 per 100 pounds. 



Unbleached drilling, ginghams, bleached shirting, sheeting, and hoi- 

 lands pay $22.12 per 100 pounds. 



Knit underwear, socks, and stockings, bombazine, table-covers, bed- 

 spreads, damask, fustians, table-cloths, nainsook, towels, doylies, hand- 

 kerchiefs, percales, pique's, poplins, and calicoes, pay $44.23 per 100 

 pounds. 



Shirts, zephyr, gauze, curtains, corsets, shawls, gloves, grenadines, 

 lawns, garters, insertions, laces, fringes, velveteen, muslins, organdies, 

 and tarletans pay $88.46 per 100 pounds. 



Ready-made clothing of all kinds pays $176.92 per 100 pounds. 



WINFIELD S. BIRD, 



Consul. 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



La Guayra, June 24, 1880, 



