162 COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



The above is an exact copy of an order sent by this mail for goods. 

 The agent, or whoever receives the order, proceeds at once to the whole- 

 sale houses and leaves copies of the order, with a request that samples 

 be sent to his address. The agent upon receiving the samples selects 

 the best material obtainable from among the samples furnished by the 

 various business houses, and gives his order accordingly. Payments 

 are invariably required to be made for soft goods (in England) to the 

 manufacturers within six months from the date of purchase. Much of 

 the cotton goods purchased in England is paid for in New Zealand pro- 

 duce and copra from the South Sea Islands ; the remainder is paid in 

 cash or draft. 



DUTIES. 



The following articles pay duty or are admitted free as more fully 

 appears by the subjoined list: Cotton counterpanes, 20 per cent. 5 

 costumes as apparel, 20 per cent. ; cotton braids and bindings, tailors' 

 trimmings, free; cotton dimity, 10 per cent.; cotton piece goods, not 

 otherwise enumerated, to include cotton prints, muslins, Attalia and 

 Indian twills, dungaree, derries, denims, dimity, lamb skins, swan 

 skins, and all cotton goods unmixed with other material, and unenu- 

 merated in tariff or decisions, when in the piece as it leaves the loom, 

 10 per cent. Cotton, polished for lining coat sleeves, for fabrication of 

 goods in the colony, free. Cotton rugs, 20 per cent. ; cottons, crochet, 

 darning, knitting, and angola mending, as haberdashery, 20 per cent. ; 

 cotton, sewing, free ; cotton shirtings, colored, in the piece, free ; cot- 

 tons, silks, and threads, sewing, free; cotton waste, free ; cotton yarns, 

 free ; coverings for couches and chairs, Chinese, as furniture, 25 per 

 cent. ; table coverings in the piece, not embroidered or sewed, as textile 

 piece goods, 20 per cent. ; covers, rick and wagon, 15 per cent. ; table 

 and toilet, 20 per cent. 5 crapes, as drapery, not otherwise enumerated, 

 20 per cent. ; cravats, as apparel, 25 per cent. 



Crimean shirtings 25 per cent.; crinolettes, as apparel, 25 per cent.; cro- 

 chet cottons, as haberdashery, 20 percent.; crochet, Swiss, and embroid- 

 ered edgings of all kinds, as drapery, not otherwise enumerated, 20 per 

 cent.; crumb-cloths, as textiles, piece goods, 20 per cent.; cuffs, cotton, 

 paper, or other material, as apparel, 25 per cent; corduroy (cotton), in 

 piece, free; cotton (stay-maker's binding) free; corsets, as appferel, 25 

 per cent. ; corset fasteners, stay- maker's binding, free. 



The above list of articles subject to duty, or admitted free, is taken 

 from the customs tariff and decisions, submitted by the tariff commis- 

 sioner, and is therefore thoroughly reliable. 



JOHN D. CONNOLLY, 



Consul. 



UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Auckland, New Zealand, September 4, 1889. 



