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Textiles, mixed: With loss than 1'J ]>er cent, silk, duty aeeordiiin to material, with 

 $7. 84 per hundred weight added ; with less than 50 per cent, wool, duty as above, 

 with ijvJ.'.Ki per hundred weight added ; with metallic threads, 98 cents per kilogram, 

 with duty on material added. 



sh.-ts, table-cloths, towels, etc., duty according to material, with 10 per cent, 

 added. 



Collars, c ufls, and men's shirts, double the duty on material. 



Wbenever a manufactured article can not be classified by its weight and measure 

 and the number of threads in a square ot'5 millimeters, the highest duty of the class 

 to which it belongs is charged. 



WALLACE S. JONES, 



Consul. 

 UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 



Messina, July 8, 1889. 



NAPLES. 



REPORT BY CONSUL CAMPHAVSEN. 

 ITALIAN VS. FOREIGN COTTONS. 



In obedience to the instructions of your circular of May 27, 1889, I 

 have the honor to present the following report upon the cotton textiles 

 imported into this consular district : 



From persons for many years engaged in manufacturing and import- 

 ing this article, I have reliable information, that twenty years ago 

 nearly all cotton textiles used in Italy were imported, but the high duty 

 on imports, which has steadily increased year after year, has given im- 

 petus to Italian industries, and to-day 75 percent, of all articles of this 

 description are produced in this country. 



National spinning and weaving is progressing continually and rap- 

 idly. 



The present almost prohibitory tariff on French goods gave additional 

 advantages to German competitors, who inundate the markets with 

 dress goods, both sightly and cheap, gradually cutting out English 

 products. Alsatian prints are being preferred to those of Manchester 

 on account of superior finish and better color, notwithstanding that 

 great progress has been made in English productions. 



Furniture prints, once important articles, are now to a large extent 

 superseded by jute fabrics, which are cheap and more durable, and are 

 largely manufactured in this country. Gray madapollams to be used 

 for linings are imported from Manchester, England, and from Switzer- 

 land ; bleached shirtings and long-cloths from Manchester ; piques and 

 white fancy cotton materials suitable for dress and other purposes mainly 

 from Manchester and to some extent from Switzerland and Austria; 



