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AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF MEXICO.

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|- |colspan="4" |Import Duties: |- |width="15"| |width="270" |1 box, 128 kilos (stove), iron, without brass or copper ornaments, at 19 cents per kilo |width="45" |$24 42 |width="45" | |- | |1 box, 31·3 kilos, iron pipe, at 24 cents per kilo ||7 51 | |- | ||1 box iron pots, with brass handles, at 24 cents per kilo ||9 48 | |- | | ||$41 41 | |- | |Add 4 per cent as per tariff ||1 65 | |- | ||$43 06 | | |- | |Package duty, 50 cents per 100 kilos ||1 00 | |- | ||$44 06 | | |- | |Add 5 per cent as per tariff ||2 20 | |- | ||$46 26 | | |- | |Add 2 per cent municipal duty ||93 | |- | ||$47 19 | | |- | |Add 5 per cent consumption duty ||2 36 | | |- | ||$49 55 | | |- | ||Dispatch of goods at Buena Vista station, city of Mexico ||38 | |- | |Stamps for permit ||50 | | |- | | || ||$50 43 |- | | | ||$107 03 |- | |Cartage in city of Mexico | ||75 |- | |⁠Total | ||$107 78 |- |}


Résumé:
Original cost of stove, with exchange $31 80
Freight, consular fees, and forwarding 24 80
Import duties 50 43
Cartage 75
⁠Total $107 78
[Note.—This stove was shipped from El Paso in a lot of goods for Messrs.——& Co., the largest importing house in Mexico, thereby saving an expense of two thirds the consular fee—$14.56—which, if paid on the invoice alone, would have added $9.71 to charges, and raised the total to $117.49.]

In 1878 Hon. John W. Foster, then United States minister to Mexico, in a communication to the Manufacturers' Association of the Northwest (Chicago), thus analyzed the items of the cost, in the city of Mexico, of a tierce, weighing gross 328 pounds, containing 300 pounds (net) of sugar-cured hams:

New York cost, 300 pounds at 11 cents $33 00
New York expenses, such as cartage, consular invoice ($4 gold), manifest, etc., average 5 per cent on large shipments 1 65
Freight from New York to Vera Cruz at 1 cent per pound, payable in New York 3 25
Exchange on New York, $37.90 at 18 per cent 6 82
Import duties in Vera Cruz, 138 kilos at 24 cents per kilo 33 12
Municipal duties in Vera Cruz, $1.03 for every 400 pounds 84
Lighterage and handling from steamer to warehouse ($1 to $1.50 per every 200 pounds) 1 63
Maritime brokerage, 2 per cent on freight ($3.25) 07
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