PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
RESOLUTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF

SEPTEMBER 3, 1841, AND JANUARY 31, 1842.

WASHINGTON:

PRINTED BY GALES AND SEAΤΟΝ.
1842.

CONTENTS.

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting the Report, &c.

Report

Index to

British territories in Europe and the East Indies

British colonial possessions

Colonies of Great Britain, with regard to which there exists special enactments,

on the part of the mother country, regulating the imports into each

France

French colonial possessions

Spain and its colonial possessions

The Canary islands

The Philippine islands

Cuba

Porto Rico

Appendix to Spain

Page.

1

3

3

4

9

10

12

15

22

24

25

35

36

Hanseatic cities

Tables exhibiting a comparative statement between the tariffs of other nations and that of

the United States

67

69

69

159

No. III. Spain and her colonial possessions

265

No. IV. Tariff of importation into Brazil

Appendix to No. 3, being the tariff of importation into Spain from America, tariff of impor-

tation into Spain from the Philippine islands, tariff of importation into Spain from China

356

356

No. VI. Tariff (in part) of importation into Sweden

No. V. Tariff (in part) of importation into Russia, and the money, weights, and mea-

sures, of Russia

363

373

No. VII. Denmark. New tariff dues at the Sound and the Two Belts

375

No. VIII. Kingdom of Portugal-official consular statement with regard to new tariffs;
articles paying additional duty; custom-house tares; foreign and national vessels enter-

ing Oporto during the year 1840; statement of wine shipped from Oporto, 1838, 1839,

1840, and 18413; port charges, currency, weights, and measures

381

Tabular statements exhibiting the amount and value of the domestic exports, &c., from the Unit-
ed States to the following countries, during the commercial years 1838, 1839, and 1840, with
the tariffs, and amount of duties paid thereon:

No. XXV. Summary statement exhibiting the aggregate value of exports of articles the
growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, to the countries herein enumera-
ted, during the commercial years 1838, 1839, and 1840; together with the amount of
duties paid thereon, and the character of the same

No. XXVI. Summary statement exhibiting the average value of exports of articles the

growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, to the countries herein enume-

rated, during the three commercial years 1838, 1839, and 1840; together with the ave-

rage amount of duties paid thereon, and the character of the same

523

481

485

489

493

498

501

505

515

524

No. XXVII. Duties on importation into foreign countries on the staple or principal pro-
ductions of the United States

527

No. XXVIII. Commerce. Imports into and exports from foreign countries, special privi-
leges and restrictions

573

No. XXIX. Navigation. Tonnage duties and charges; mode of measuring tonnage; sani-

tary restrictions, and colonial trade

-

587

APPENDIX. British tariff. Present and proposed rates of duty; corn laws; esti-
mated ad valorem duties on the principal articles of export from the United States; pro-
posed customs duties in the West India and North American colonies.

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AUTHORITIES.

In preparing the report and tables, the following authorities, among others, were consulted: Hume's Report from the Select Committee on Import Duties, to the House of Commons, August 6, 1840.

Statutes of the United Kingdom, 3 and 4 William iv, and 3 and 4 Victoria, 1840, and others.

Bowring's Report on the Prussian Commercial Union, to both Houses of Parliament, December 23, 1839.

British and Foreign State Papers, compiled at the Foreign Office, London.

Hansard's Parliamentary Debates.

Reuss' Trade between England and the United States, (London.)

Tooke's History of Prices, (London.)

Pope's (English) Journal of Trade, 1840 and 1842.

McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary, (London,) 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840.

Ellis's British Tariff, 1841.

Kelly's Cambist; Vere's Cambist.

Tate's Cambist.

Murray's Encyclopedia of Geography.

Digest of Commercial Relations between the United States and Foreign Countries, 1833 and
1836.

Commerce and Navigation Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1838, 1839, and 1840.
Niles's Weekly Register.

Hunt's Merchants' Magazine.

Journals of the Proceedings and Laws of the Texan Congress.

Archives du Commerce from 1835 to 1841, (Paris.)

Tableau General du Commerce de la Belgique, 1839.

Gazette National ou le Moniteur Universal, France.

Galignanis Messenger.

Registro de Legislacion Ultramarina.

Consular returns from Bremen, Hamburg, Elsineur, St. Petersburg, Antwerp, Trieste, Stettin, Bordeaux, Naples, Malaga, Cadiz, Oporto, Barcelona, Bilboa, Canton, St. Croix, Havana, Matanzas, St. Jago, Baracoa, Trinidad, St. Juan, Santa Martha, Carthagena, St. John's, N. Β., Halifax and Sidney, N. S., and many others.

Codigo de Commercio, Spain.

Cuba Balanza Mercantil.

Puerto Rico Balanza Mercantil.

Memorias de Hacienda, Venezuela, 1839, 1840, and 1841.

Memorias del Secretario d'Estado, New Granada, 1839 and 1840.

Official Gazettes, published at Madrid, Havana, Caraccas, Carthagena, Bogota, Journal do

Commercio, (Rio Janeiro,) &c.

Tariffs of the United States, 1832, 1833, and 1841.

British Tariff, as officially reported to House of Commons, 1840.

Tariff Commercial des Douanes Francaises, 1837 and 1841.

Nouveau Tariff des Douanes Belges, 1840.

Tariffa de Dritti Dogauale of Naples, 1835.

Tariffa Generale per le Dogane Pontificie, 1830.

Aranceles Generales, Spain, 1825.

Ley de Aduanas, Aranceles, e'Instruccion, Spain, 1841.

Arancel General de Cuba, 1839.

Arancel General de Puerto Rico, 1836.

General Tariff of the Austrian Dominions, 1835.

Zell Tariff of Austria, 1838.

Tariff of the Dutchies of Sleswick and Holstein, 1839.
Tariffs of the Prussian Commercial Union, 1837 and 1840.

Russian Tarifs, 1834, 1838, and 1841.

Texan Tariff of 2d Congress, December 1837.

Texan tariff, April 1842, and tariffs of other nations necessary for the completion of the tables, &c., &c., &c.