COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



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Southern France has no cotton manufactures of any consequence, and 

 receives its supplies of muslins, sheetings, calicoes, etc., from the great 

 mills of Koubaix, Roueii, Tourcoing, and other manufacturing centers in 

 the North. The protection which these industries enjoy under the 

 present tariff laws, and the rebates or discriminations which are secured 

 to cotton textile imports coming from certain nations, which have spe- 

 cial treaties of commerce with France, viz, Great Britain, Belgium, 

 Switzerland, Spain, Austria,, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, and 

 finally Germany, by virtue of the treaty of Frankfort, are indicated by 

 the following tables, per 600 kilograms : 



Description. 



General 

 tariff. 



Treaty 

 rates. 



Cotton cloths not bleached, dyed, or printed : 



Weighing 11 kilograms or more per 100 square meters (20. 27 per 100 

 yards square : 



Not exceeding 30 threads to 5 square millimeters .. 



Over 30 tlm-ads . 



Weighing from 7 to 11 kilograms: 



Xot exceeding 35 threads 



From 36 threads to 43 



From 44 threads upwards 



Weighing from 5 to 7 kilograms: 



Not exceeding 27 threads 



From 28 threads to 35 



From 3(3 threads to 43 



From 44 threads up wards 



Weighing from 3 to 5 kilograms : 



Not exceeding 20 threads 



Xot exceeding 27 threads 



From 28 threads to 35 



From 36 threads to 43 



From 44 threads upwards 



Weighing less than 3 kilograms per 100 square meters: 



Bleached, an additional duty of 



Dyed in Aradrinople red, an additional duty of 



Dyed in any other color, an additional duty of 



Printed (linings), an additional duty of 



Printed in one or two colors, an additional duty of 



Printed in 3 to 6 colors, an additional duty of 



Printed in 7 or more colors, an addkional duty of 



Francs. 

 62 



100 



95 

 125 

 250 



100 

 145 

 235 

 300 



| 230 



300 

 410 

 625 



15 percent. 



60 



30 

 2.50 

 3.75 

 6.25 



10 



Francs. 



100 

 180 



117 

 190 

 242 



110 



148 

 193 

 270 

 403 



15 per cent. 



25 



2 



4 

 7.50 



In the long list of duties assessed upon other fabrics, which range from 

 8 francs per 100 kilograms for oil-cloth to 1,000 francs per 100 kilograms 

 for cotton gloves, it will be sufficient to mention only those which are 

 imported to any extent: 



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