PRINCIPAL IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES, WITH RATES OF DUTY THEREON.*

Table showing Quantities, Values, Total Duties, Rates of Duty and Average Duty, ad valorem, on all imported Commodities paying $100,000 or upwards into the Treasury, in the year 1878.

[Compiled from the Official Report on Commerce and Navigation of the U. S. for 1878.]

For greater condensation, fractions are omitted, and the figures are therefore approximate, except as to rates and percentages of duty, which are the figures of the Bureau of Statistics.

PRINCIPAL IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES, WITH RATES OF DUTY THEREON, 1878-Continued.

919,632 25 per cent.

229,918 25.00

Feathers and flowers, artifi-
cial and ornamental, not
otherwise provided for....
Fire-crackers, in boxes of 40
packs, not exceeding 80 to
the pack....
boxes
Flax Linens, valued at 30
cents or less per square yd.
"valued at above 30 cents
per square yard
"Burlaps, and like manufac-
tures of flax, jute, or hemp,
of which either shall be
the component of chief
value (except bagging for
cotton)..
"Duck, canvas, paddings,
cot-bottoms, diapers,
crash, huckabacks, hand-
kerchiefs (not hemmed),
lawns, or other manufac-
tures of flax, jute, or hemp,
valued at 30 cents or less

PRINCIPAL IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES, WITH RATES OF DUTY THEREON, 1878-Continued.

PRINCIPAL IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES, WITH RATES OF DUTY THEREON, 1878-Continued.

.lbs. 41,179,975

617,160
1,340,382 35 per cent.
1,104,710 22 c. per lb.

$6 per lb.

328,829 53.27

469,163 5.00 1,037,647 93 23

7,075,982

1,284,862

Opium prepared for smok-
ing..
Papier-maché manufactures,
not otherwise provided for

Rice, cleaned...

Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels,
or other packages .lbs. 352,109,963
"in bulk.
.lbs. 414,813,516
Sardines

and anchovies,
packed in oil or other-
wise. ....quarter boxes
Seeds: Flaxseed or linseed (56)
lbs. to the bushel.. bushels
Silk: Braids, laces, fringes,
galloons, buttons, and
ornaments, dress and
piece goods
"Velvets.

"Ready-made clothing "Ribbons

"Ribbons (edge of cotton).. "Silk manufactures not otherwise provided for, made of silk, or of which silk is the component or chief value....

PRINCIPAL IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES, WITH RATES OF DUTY THEREON, 1878-Continued.

6 c. per lb.

26.88

Tin, plates or sheets.....lbs. 242,647,871 9,873,640 1 c. per lb.

2,669,662 26.98

Tobacco, and manufactures