THE ECONOMIC CONDITION OF THE PHILIPPINES 59 



Of the products of the country the principal ones pay export 

 duties as follows : 



iO 75 per 100 kilo., gross. 

 50 

 05 



2 00 

 10 

 10 



3 00 



Hem p 



Indigo 



Liquid indigo, 



Rice 



Sugar 



Cocoanuts and copra 



Tobacco from Cagayan and Isabella 



Tobacco from Visayas and Mindanao 2 00 



Tobacco from otber jjrovinces 1 50 



Manufactured tobacco. 3 00 



and all produce pa}'S $1.50 per 1,000 kilo, harbor dues. 



In 1880 the harbor dues on both exports and imports were 

 raised — at first by 20 per cent of the import duty and 1 per 

 cent of the export value — for the purpose of building a new 

 harbor, and this, with some few alterations, remains so to this 

 day. The harbor is a long way from being finished; nor will it 

 ever be finished if the present system continues, even though of 

 late the work has been a little expedited. At a normal rate of 

 work, what has been done could have been finished in one or 

 two years. With the amount received through the increased 

 dues, ten harbors could have been built; but probably the money 

 no longer exists. 



The duty returns were, in — 



1S28 $227,000 



1829 229,115 



1830 228,061 



In the last few years they have stood much higher, this being 

 principally caused by foreign houses. 



For the past three years the returns were : 



1895. 1896. 1897. 



From foreign houses . . $2,818,900 $3,106,100 $3,322,500 

 From Spanish houses. . 361,400 425,900 903,000 



Total $3,180,300 $3,532,000 $4,225,500 



Thus the foreign bouses paid of the indirect duties, in — 



1895 87 per cent. 



L896 88 



1897 73 



