The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-26
Statistics OF the German Zoll-Verein.

We have been furnished with interesting extracts
from the official commercial statistics published in the
Zo-yercn down to the close of ls45, having reference
chiefly TO our commercial relations with that country
Statement number gives list of all the German
States composing the Zo- Veren with their population
according to the last census of 1913.
The population of Prussia having increased in the nine
years. from the end Of 1894 to the end of lS43 on an
erage of 1903 per cent, per annum, and admitting
the increase in the other Zol-Verein States the
population of the ZoVerein, at the end of ls47 will be
about thirty millions of inhabitants
Statement number ttro shows the quantity OF cotton TO-
bacco, rice, and whale OIL chiefly the produc of the
United States also the quantity of cotontwst manufac-
tured in Great Britain, imported into the ZollVeren
1885, specifying the several channels by which the i'm
portaion took place.
From the official returns of the numerous custom
houses the frontier, dividing the Zo Veren from
Hanover and Brunswick, could be ascertained ex
acty whether the quantities passed through these
tom-hou5es had been imported by Hamburg by Bre-
According 10 DR.. Bowring's report on the Prussian
Commercial Union presented in 1889 to both houses OF
the British Parliament, page OIL the quintal OF the Zoll
Veren referred to in its tariff, is divided into 100 pounds
and 935422 OF these pounds equal to 900 Prussian
pounds.
The weight OF the English auoirdupois or the United
1882 grains the ZollVeren quintal will be 10 4467
United States pounds.
Statement number three shows what has become of the
imports exhibited in the previous table, under the three
new heads, reerported, consumed, and hand and il
gives also their average prices, value rates of duty and
the revenue derived from them In these and the fol
lowing statements the value of the articles has been cal
cuated on their last average prices in the Hanse Towns
on their importation into which, only per cent ad vao.
rem duty is paid
From the beginning OF the present year, s47,) the du
~ on cotton twist has been raised from two 10 three
Prusslan dollars, from 81 SO So OF per quinta
ms article has been introduced in the above and follow
ing statements in order to show the increase of cotton
manufacturing in the Zo -Verein States
statement number four shows the Importation, re-ex-
portahon, and consumption in the Zol Veen States in
1915 of some other colonial articles, partly the products
OF the United States, and partly imported from the ports
OF the United States together with their value rates OF
Duty and the revenue derived from them The revenue
so coecteds distributed among the States OF the Zoll-
Nereln in proportion TO their population
Stdtement number fue gives comparative view of the
quantity and value of the articles named in numbers three
and FOUR imported, reexported consumed and on hand
IN the five years, from 1897 to ls4l with the same con-
sumed, and on hand in 1915.
From this table it will be seen that the consumption of
these articles in the Veren States has increased in
lew years more than 10 per cent
Since the fall OF 1916, the articles of wheat -four,
corn meal rye and other breadstu have been imported
from the United States in considerable quantities also
oner provisions, namely pork, beef Bacon lard, hams
'allow, cheese, dried fruits, &c &c
FOR want OF official data from the custom house returns
Oh 'he ZolVeren States in 1912, 1919, and 1884, we are