TlMEHRI. 
Guiana. Broadly stated it was as follows : The statis- 
tics showed that during the year ending June 30th, 1891, 
there was imported to the United States from British 
Guiana produces to the value of $4,883,206. Of these 
produces the sum of $12,946 was dutiable. For the same 
period the exports from the United States to British 
Guiana amounted to $1,761,350. Of this amount fully 
90 per cent, paid duty. This was regarded as an unequal 
and unreasonable state of trade between the two 
countries. But this inequality became more apparent 
when the tariff of Guiana was examined. The principal 
articles of exportation from the United States to that 
colony, with the rate of respe6live duty, were as 
follows : — Flour, 23^ per cent, ; pork, 23 per cent. ; 
lumber, 13 percent.; beef, 28 per cent. ; kerosine, 189 
per cent. ; tobacco, 353 per cent. ; butter and substi- 
tutes, 135 per cent. It was believed that the statistics 
of trade of the United Kingdom with Guiana would 
show that the leading articles of exports therefrom paid 
on their introduction into Guiana the ad valorem rate of 
7 per cent, fixed in the tariff, and it would also be found 
that a considerable portion of those exports were on the 
free list. General Foster maintained, as a reasonable 
and just claim, that in view of the treatment which was 
extended to the produces of Guiana on their importation 
into the United States, American merchandize should be 
admitted into British Guiana at a rate of duty at least as 
favourable as that collected on goods from any other 
country, and that similar treatment should be extended 
in the free list, 
The above urged with much ability and persistency by 
General Foster, was a formidable complaint to answer, 
