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New German Tariff. 



and a considerable quantity is also shipped by sea. In 1890 

 the fruit sent out of California, including canned and dried 

 fruits, by rail and by sea amounted to 144,000 tons ; while the 

 corresponding figure for 1900 was 464,000 tons. 



[Statistics on the Fruit Industry of California, U. S. Dep. ofAgric., Division oj 

 Statistics, Bulletin Ao. 23, Misc. Scr.~] 



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austro-kungarian trade and the new german 



Tariff. 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 

 summary of a lecture delivered at Budapest in January last 

 by Herr C. Hieronymi, a former Minister of State in the 

 Hungarian Government, as to the influence which the pro- 

 posed new German tariff may be expected to produce upon 

 Austro-Hungarian trade. 



Herr Hieronymi stated that the total imports into Austria- 

 Hungary from Germany amounted in 1900 to over £26,000,000,. 

 the exports to that country being £39,000,000 ; while, con- 

 sidering only the articles liable to duty, Austria-Hungary 

 exports to Germany almost double what it imports. 



Wood and timber occupy the foremost place among the 

 exports, the amount sent to Germany representing a value of 

 almost £6,000,000, out of a total ofover£ 10,000,000. Germany 

 is practically the exclusive market for the raw material (hard 

 and soft wood /( and sleepers, and it is thought that the trade 

 in these two items will not suffer, inasmuch as no increase in 

 duty is contemplated. The exportation of sawn wood, how- 

 ever, appears to be threatened, since Germany obtains all its 

 foreign timber from Russia and Austria-Hungary ; and a 

 consideration of the rates of freight and of the increased duty 

 on sawn timber renders it piobable that the saw-mills will 

 suffer considerably, more especially those lying* near the 

 frontier. On the whole, the lecturer expects that the exports 

 of timber will not fall off, but that there will be an increase 

 in the proportion of raw material as compared with sawn. 



Next in importance is the export of eggs, of which the 

 amount sent to Germany has risen in value from £800,000 in 



