N. B.-The export value of other goods is the same as appears in the schedule showing the estimated import value of the goods described therein.

Ground nuts, grain, and other oil producing sub Ad valorem.... stances except gergelim- poles, boards, and planks

2 p. c.

not otherwise specified (for a foreign port).

Gergelim, calumba, gums (except copal), furs and skins, native tobacco (for a foreign port).

Rubber, round pepper, rhinocerus tusks, hippopot amus teeth, and turtle (for a foreign port).

Cloves and ivory (for a foreign port).

All other articles.

Cowries and other shells, wax, and ebony (for a foreign port).

Gum copal, pearls, and other precious stones..

LOURENÇO MARQUEZ, October 6, 1897.1

1 Corrected to April, 1900.

W. CHALMERS BARKER,
Acting Vice-Consul.

AUSTRALASIA.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

It is claimed that what Americans call the "tariff law" in New South Wales is the most concise and comprehensive tariff law extant, and that Sydney is by far the freest of all the great commercial ports on the globe.

On January 1, 1896, all ad valorem duties were abolished and the dutiable list was limited to stimulants and narcotics and twenty-five other articles. On the 30th of June of the same year, the duties on sixteen of the twenty-five ceased; while on the other nine, the duties were to be abolished by a sliding scale before 1900.

The following is the full text of the "permanent tariff" schedule of 1896, in operation from its passage until the recent change of 1898, as fully noted under proper head:

Rate.

United

Articles.

Unit.

English States currency. equivalent.

Spirits:

On all kinds of spirits and spirituous compounds Per proof gallon. imported and not otherwise enumerated.

No allowance beyond 16-5 shall be made for the underproof of any spirit of a less strength than 16-5 underproof.

Case spirits

Contents of 2, 3, 4, or 5 gallons shall be charged-
2 gallons and under as 2 gallons.

Over 2 gallons and not exceeding 3 as 3
gallons.

Over 3 gallons and not exceeding 4 as 4

Delivered from ship's side or from a custom-house bond for home consumption, manufactured, unmanufactured, and snuff.

Unmanufactured entered to be manufactured in the .....do
colony at the time of a removal from a customs
bond or from an importing ship to any licensed
tobacco factory for manufacturing purposes only
into tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes.

Sheep wash

.do

.do

NOTE.-The* indicates the present duty, as retained by paragraph 3 of law of 1898.

REVISED TARIFF LAW OF 1898.

Owing to an insufficient revenue to meet a necessarily increased expenditure, there was a revision of the tariff by the last Parliament, the act going into operation from its passage, November 3, 1898. The total schedule of the new duties is as follows:

Pence.

-per pound.. 2=

.04

Tea ..per pound.. 1=$0.02 Fruits (dried, candied, or prunes, exclusive of dates), in lieu of the duty of 1 pence per pound, now chargeable... The following three paragraphs cover the entire changes, other than the new schedule last above quoted:

(1) The import duties of customs mentioned in the schedule to this act shall be levied and collected upon all goods therein mentioned on their importation and upon all such goods in bond: Provided, That all goods imported for the supply of Her Majesty's service shall be exempt from such import duties.

(2) All contracts made on or before the 3d day of November, 1898, for the sale or delivery otherwise than in bond of any goods the duty on which is newly imposed or is increased by this act, shall be subject to an increase in the contract price of