No.

Import and export duties in the island of Bonaire-Continued.

Articles.

Unit.

Valuations on which duties are

assessed.

This value shall serve as a basis for exportation only. On importation salt is exempt from duty.

ART. 2. The present decree shall enter into force on February 1, 1898.

Dozen
Kilogram
.do

4.50

1.809

.20

.0804

.20

.0804

Dozen

5.00

2.01

CURAÇAO.

The import charges are one-half of 1 per cent of the value on raw cotton, cocoa, divi-divi, goatskins, hides, quinia bark, dyewoods of all kinds, and lignum-vitæ; 5 per cent of the value on cattle, sheep, and mules; 10 per cent of the value on horses, and 3 per cent of the value on all other goods, with the exception of salt. (Consul Spencer, Curaçao, December 24, 1896.)

This decree entered into force on January 1, 1899.

All other staple goods of this colony not mentioned above, also mineral ores and other mineral products, shall be subject to an export duty of 5 per cent ad valorem.

FRENCH WEST INDIES.

GUADELOUPE.

[Corrected up to June, 1899.]

With the exception of the following special import tariff, all imports into Guadeloupe are subject to the rates specified in the import tariff of France. The local tariffs immediately following are charges wholly applicable to Guadeloupe, and asserted for the local purposes given.

Consul Ayme writes from Guadeloupe May 24, 1898: "Changes have been made in the duties on certain articles imported into this colony in considerable quantities, and, in great measure, from the United States. I inclose a tabular statement of these new duties." (See p. 814.)