180 COTTON TEXTILES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



these wares are, with few exceptions, forwarding agents who receive 

 the goods from the interior and know nothing about the mode of pur- 

 chase. Even the small percentage of the goods which actually remains 

 in this district is purchased in a hundred different ways and mostly in 

 comparatively small lots. 



Place of manufacture. By far the greater part of the German cotton 

 textiles are manufactured in Saxony. The following two tables, com- 

 prising the years 1885, 1886, and 1887 will show from where the goods 

 are imported, the respective quantities and values. 



Duties. As the most simple and at the same time most reliable man- 

 ner of replying to this question, I give below a translation of a part of 

 the JSTew Imperial German Tariff. (Duties assessed per 100 kilograms): 



Cotton and cotton goods : 



Cotton, raw, combed, dyed free 



Marks. 



Cotton batting. 1.50 



Cotton thread, unmixed, or mixed with linen, silk, wool, or other vegetable 

 or animal spinning stuffs : 

 Single cord, raw 



Up to No. 17 English 12 



Over No. 17 to No. 45 English 18 



Over No. 45 to No. 60 English 24 



Over No. 60 to No. 79 English 30 



Over No. 79 English 36 



Double cord, raw : 



Up to No. 17 English 15 



Over No. 17 to No. 45 English 21 



Over No. 45 to No. 60 English, 27 



Over No. 60 to No. 79 English 33 



Over No 79 English 39 



Single and double cord, bleached or dyed : 



Up to No. 17 English 24 



Over No. 17 to No. 45 English 30 



Over No. 45 to No. 60 English 36 



Over No. 60 to No. 79 English 42 



Over No. 79 English 48 



Triple cord or more, twisted once or more, raw, bleached, dyed 48 



Double cord, repeatedly twisted, raw, bleached, dyed, also cut cotton 



thread, manufactured for retail sale of every description 70 



Wicks, unwoven 24 



Cotton textiles without and in connection with metal threads, without 

 admixture of silk, wool or other animal hair : 

 Raw, (manufactured from raw yarn) solid textiles with exception of cut 



velvets, tulle, ra'-v without designs 80 



Bleached solid textiles, also finished, with exception of uncut velvets .. 100 

 All solid textiles not included in Nos. 1, 2 and 6, raw (manufactured 

 from raw yarn), loose textiles with exception of curtainings, as far as 

 not classed under No. 1 ; hosiery, upholsters' and button-makers' wares, 



also textiles in connection witli metal threads 120 



Cuvtainiiigs, bleached and finished 230 



All loose textiles, as jaconet, muslin, tulle, marly, gauze, as far as not 



classed under Nos, 1,3, and 4 200 



Laces and all embroideries .. . 350 



