Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-04
TRADE WITH SAN DOMINGO.
Concessions of the New Treaty Give the
United States the Most of 1t.

United States the Most of 1t.
WASHINGTON, Sept 4.-The reciproc
ity treaty with San Domingo which has
just gone into effect is one of the most
favorable yet made. The amount Of
trade is not so large, but the concessions
give the United States the most of it.
Last year the United States sold to San
Domingo 1926, ,657 worth of our products
Under the treaty this country ought to
more than double that.
Articles Made Free.
The articles made free of duty under
the treaty, with the amounts of them
sold to San Domingo last year, are as
fellows:
Agricultural implements, $717; ami
mails, alive, $500; corn, corn meal, starch,
oats, rye and rye -four, 81, ,339; hay, $472;
cottonseed oil, $508; tallow and lubricat-
ing oil, $33, 1888; resin, tar, pitch and
turpentine, So, 5S7; coal, $3, 480; machines,
including steam engines and those Of all
other kinds, and parts Of the
Same, implements and tools for
agricultural mining, manufacturing,
industrial and scientific purposes, $117,-
210; material for the construction
and equipment of railroads, $2S, 1855;
iron, cast and wrought, and steel in pig,
bar, rods, plates, beams, rafters, and
other similar articles for the construc-
tion of buildings, and in wire nails.
screws and pipes, $9,S8e; zinc, galvan-
lied and corrugated iron, tin and lead in
sheets, asbestos, tiles and slate, tar, pa
per and other materials for roofing, $l0,-
627; copper in bars, plates, nails and
screws, and copper and lead pipe. 81 ,876;
bricks, fire bricks, cement, lime, artih-
cial stone, paving tiles, marble and other
stones, rough, dressed or polished, and
other earthly materials used in building,
$14,900 trees, plants, vines and
seeds and grains Of all kinds for
propagation, $2l7; wire plain or
barbed, for fencing, with hooks, staples,
nails, ETC., and telegraph wire and tele-
graphic, telephone and electric ap-
paratus of all kinds for com
munication and illumination, $11,-
sol; wood and lumber Of al
kinds for building, in logs or piers,
beams, rafters, planks, boards, shingles,
flooring, joists, wooden houses, mounted
or unmounted, and accessory parts for
buildings, $73,027 cooperage of all
kinds, including staves, headings and
hoops, in barrels and boxes, mounted or
unmounted, $20,b41 books, bound or
unbound, pamphlets, newspapers and
printed matter, $2,949; printers ink of
all colors, type, leads and all accessories
of printing, $1,155; sacks, empty, for
packing sugar, SIS, ,222; meats Of all
kinds, salted or in brine, but not smoked,
6,S97.
These items make total of 1854, 100,
and do not include mineral waters. ice,
wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, materials
for ship building, boats and lighters,
school furniture, blaekboards and all
other articles exclusively for She use of
schools, and some other articles, of
which, according to the official reports,
none were exported In 1890 and all Of
which are made free by the agreement.
The treaty removes entirely for this
country the heavy duties heretofore I'm
posed on more than 38 per cent. Of the
export trade Of this country with San
Domingo.
1t reduces 25 per cent. the duties Inn
posed on 2S per cent. of the trade. Here
after the United States will have the de-
cided advantage over eompsting trade
for two-thirds of the trade of San Do
minqo