324 TlMEHRI. 
good a customer greatly helped us with our account 
sales. If we could carry on a similar trade with Canada 
or a much smaller one at first it would still be of impor- 
tance to us, and might expand hereafter into dimensions 
of sufficient magnitude to satisfy all our requirements. 
I do not think, if we came to terms with one another 
thc=t the Dominion would ever get all our sugars, for 
that would be to forego the advantage that the higher 
classes of Demerara crystals have won in the London 
market. 
The basis of reciprocal relations with the Dominion 
of Canada lies in an interchange of trade whereby our 
products would be exchanged for the Dominion's pro- 
ducts through mutual tariff concessions. 
As I have hinted before it is my object now merely 
to break ground and to make this paper tentative 
and suggestive, I have therefore no intention to 
enter into the particulars of any new fiscal scheme, 
but I will enumerate some of our imports drawn from 
different countries all of which Canada exports. 
List of some dutiable goods imported into British Guiana in 1883, with 
values and duties attached. 
ARTICLES. 
VALUES. 
DUTIES. 
Bacon 
...£ 
737 »5 
2i ... 
£ 58 3 

Beef 
18,852 9 
5* - 
3-331 6 
10 
Bread 
22,249 7 
11* ... 
1.967 14 
3* 
Bricks 
15,690 2 
3 ••• 
307 8 
6* 
Butter 
... 
30,188 8 
8 ... 
2,967 14 
3* 
Candles, tallow 
775 
2 
67 18 
6 
Candles, sperm &c. 
... 
888 6 
ui ... 
340 7 
1 
Cheese 
... 
8,146 3 

1,179 2 
8 
Coals 
73,304 16 

8,511 17 
1 
Corn and Pulse 
33.699 7 
3 ••• 
1,602 2 
8 
Corn Brooms 
1,011 17 
6 ... 
no II 
2* 
Forward ... 
••• £205,543 14 
5 
£ 20,444 6 
2 
