COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



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PUERTO CABELLO. 



j;i PORT BY CONSUL DE KLANO. 

 QUANTITY AND KIND IMPORTED PER ANNUM. 



There are no official data concerning the quantity and kinds of cotton 

 goods imported inro Venezuela. 



In the statistics which are published yearly by the minister of finance 

 at Caracas the total amount of duties collected on imports at eacli 

 custom-house of the Republic is given, but no details as to the kinds of 

 goods imported or their quantity are furnished. 



The last report of the minister of finance for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1889, states that the total duties collected at the port of Puerto 

 Cabello on imports during that year amounted to 11,844,721.46 bolivares 

 (*2,277,S31.04 American gold), but it gives no information with respect 

 to the value or kinds of goods upon which these duties were levied. 



If it be true, as the principal merchants at this port have assured me, 

 that the duties on imported merchandise in Venezuela average 54 per 

 cent, of the cost price, we may calculate the total value of the imports 

 at Puerco Cabello for the year above stated at about $4,218,205.62 

 (American gold), but there is still no means of ascertaining the amount 

 of each kind of goods composing this aggregate. 



In the absence of official statistics with regard to the quantity and 

 kinds of cotton goods imported into this consular district, I have had 

 recourse to private sources ; and, as the importing business in that class 

 of goods at this port is almost exclusively in the hands of five leading 

 houses, who have very courteously given me all the information I asked 

 of them, I am enabled to state approximately the quantity and accurately 

 the kinds imported. 



The total quantity of cotton textiles imported into this consular dis- 

 trict yearly is estimated at $2,500,000 (American gold), distributed as 

 follows: From Great Britain, 81,200,000; Germany, $600,000; France, 

 6400,000 ; United States, 8300,000. 



The following list shows the kinds of goods imported and the class 

 of the tariff to which they belong: 



List of cotton goods imported into this district. 



