FILE CIRCULAR. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 



Washington, August 28, 1889. 



To the consuls of the United States in Mexico and in Central and South 



America. 



GENTLEMEN : Some of the leading file manufacturers of the United 

 States are desirous of extending their commercial relations to Mexico 

 and to Central and South America, and, to that end, have submitted to 

 the Department the following interrogatories, which you are requested 

 to answer at your earliest convenience : 



(1) Is there any demand for American files in your districts ? If there is, give par- 

 ticulars ; if there is not, what is the prospect for creating such demand ? 



(2) Are any files imported into your districts ? Whence and kinds imported. 



(3) Are files manufactured in your districts ? 



(4) Give prices at which files are purchased by the wholesale dealers in your dis- 

 tricts, based on the inclosed list, by discount. This request (No. 4), if it can be even 

 approximately correctly answered, will enable the American manufacturers to form a 

 correct estimate of the value to them of the trade, as well as their ability to compete 

 therein with other foreign manufacturers. 



Give all the necessary information as to tariff and other charges to 

 which the introduction of files into your districts are subject. 

 I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, 



WILLIAM F. WHARTON, 



Acting Secretary. 

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