The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-10-06
The Commerce of Brazil

WORLD SUPPLY OF INDIA RUBBER
ONES FROM. THE WONDERFUL PROV
.N,E OF AMAZoNE>.
,,ycial correspondence of The journal.
pAEA Brazil, Aug. -, 1892. Among
The South American Republics this
-5vest one is most anxious to cultivate
ueudly relations with the United States
3eug Portuguese, unlike the others, it is
land, because Great Britain long ago
mated the Brazilians by her course to-
..,d the mother country i'll the South
tarau troubles; and then the United
g.. .iras Is 10y far the largest consumer of
Ht, and lndia-rubber, the principal
ducts of Brazil,
foreign trade can never be very
-reto0s in this country until some
al changes have been made in her
-ams laws. For example: suppose Won
id 'u'y a few curiosities to send home
0tNeIdOcS de Brazil You could not
aem out Of Para without paying an
.l lntY of seventeen per cent. on the
nt the articles at the eNorbitant local
tiou; and on many other things the
u. is much higher ON the beautiful
aids fpr which Brazil is So famous, and
.,l Ire abundant enough to supply the
.. J with the finest 'cabnet' timber
tuc next thousand years. the duty is
twenty-five to forty per cent and
consequence is that there is very little
und ion its shipment to foreign parts
ae3r a great deal nowadays about
u- timber famine but unless some
uvention soon takes the place of hard
ard thus lessons the demand for it,
al j million square miles of forest
-atsi.ly untouched and known to be
II mahogany rose, tulip and other
varieties ought to become valuable
1erW
81 Para, in addition to the regular Gus
louise duties. there is another on
.,,~ ro he carried between the neighbul-
-.r,yinces so that all native uroduc.
- and home manufactures are heavily
fuened before they leave the colntry.
.eion Goods the imnort duties are
... five to EIGHTY ner cent ON III. orioi-
aluation varying according to the
r,sities OF the times in the way of
rSino. the wind for revenue. and also
tbe ,nujcr of the officials fhrouoh
..,. hands hey hammer TO BASS so that
IMPORTER may be compelled to pay a
. deal more than another ON the same
MI articles. or the same man nav
.I. the nrice ON the same thino At a
....,t time Briherv j., tlniversalh-
....t..ed with very littl,. effort ut RON
.,uput and unite as a matter Of rours,
NV mdiciousIy "seejuu'' the lropa}.
..1,fl exlcct To Ice bjohly favored
.... BRAZILIAN n]an of rnl1,t.fi1o rnve-
.4- r., fuIl IT aIsrnditie~ ready-nadc
e5ro fin. instance, f. t4<4d ,cror,lino
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h. d,;ad Inv SNAKE or in the SIM or
, -L,. wv, n,,,cossas combined and if the
4no bin does not expressIv state these
e-ia1lals any ionoramus vested with h