Russian Customs Duties. 



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grape vines, etc. Orders in this rapidly-growing trade are 

 going almost exclusively to Germany, where Russians find 

 the}^ can buy on three to six months' credit as cheaply as 

 they can from England upon cash against bills of lading. Mr. 

 Mackie fears that unless British firms are willing to waive the 

 point, this trade will be carried on exclusively through Ham- 

 burg, whereas upon equal terms the Russians prefer to do 

 business with English firms. 



\Foreign Office Report. Annual Series. No.2^\']\. Price 2d 7^ 



Duties on Agricultural Articles Imported 

 INTO Russia. 



Mr. Consul-General Michell, in his Report on the Trade of 

 the St. Petersburg District for 1897, gives the following 

 information as to the alterations which have been made in 

 the Customs tariff on certain artificial manures and prepara- 

 tions, and on agricultural machinery and implements. The 

 value of the agricultural machinery imported into Russia 

 under the old tariff is shown in this Journal for December, 

 1897, page 370. 



According to a decision of the Council of the Empire, 

 confirmed by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor, and in 

 accordance with the recommendations of the Minister of 

 Finance, the following articles hitherto dutiable are to be 

 admitted respectively free, or at reduced rates of duty into 

 the country. 



Duty free : — 



Glutin (Ermish) for protection of trees against injurious 

 insects; Stassfurt salt, though ground ; chloride of potassium ; 

 potassic sulphate ; Chilian saltpetre (nitrate of soda) ; 

 sulphuret of carbon ; Schweinfurt green. 



All preparations for treating diseases of the vine and fruit 

 trees specified in a list confirmed by the Minister of Finance 

 acting in consultation with the Minister of Agriculture and 

 Imperial Domains. 



