538 



Import Duties in Costa Rica. 



tinue to be imported. H.M. Consul, who offers to render any 

 assistance in the matter, states that a good plan would be for 

 British manufacturers of superphosphates to send samples of 

 their produce to the agricultural committees through a respon- 

 sible person on the spot, with an exact analysis, and then 

 forward consignments, against bills if required. He has no doubt 

 that in this way orders would be obtained. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2,935. J^rice i%d.] 



According to information received through the Foreign 



Office, the Legislature of Costa Rica has recently passed 



a Decree, revising the scale of duties 



Import Duties charged on various articles of food 

 in Costa Rica. s , . , _ ... 



imported into the Republic, I he new 



tariff, which came into operation on January 1st, last, fixed the 

 duty on beans and cheese at 8 cents, on lard and bacon at 10 cents, 

 on butter at 30 cents, and on salt at 6 cents per kilogramme 

 ' (2*2 lb.) In the case, however, of rock salt imported through 

 Limon for the use of cattle, no alteration was made in the 

 rate of 2 cents per kilogramme. In 1904 the duty on lard 

 and bacon is to be raised to 15 cents ; while on and after 

 January 1st, 1905, the duty on these articles will be levied 

 at the rate of 20 cents per kilogramme. The new tariff will 

 apply to substitutes for beans, lard, bacon and butter, as well 

 as to the genuine articles. 



The Decree further authorises the Executive to import hogs 

 and sows of superior breeds, and to sell them by auction to 

 the farmers. 



Teazels have for many years been grown to good profit 

 in Clackamas County of Oregon State. 



Understates They are use< 3 to some extent by manu- 

 facturers of cloth to raise a nap in the 

 cloth, though steel points are used in American mills in place 

 of teazels for the coarser cloths. Skaneateles, New York, is the 



