Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 834699508

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-88487

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Zauschner, E.

Title:: Die Zollgesetze der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie nach dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Gesetzgebung nebst allen auf die Einhebung und Verwaltung der Zölle Bezug habenden Vorschriften und Erlässen

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Beck

Year of publication:: 1871

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LVII, 525 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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202 SELLING LATIN AMERICA This group imports about $2,000,000, $500,000 coming from the United States, $250,000 from Holland and the remainder from the leading European nations. They require flour, rice, beans, onions, garlic, corn- meal, condensed milk, medicines, oil, candles, tinned foods, soups, hams, cottons, shoes and hardware. No duty or fees for travelers are charged. The “Red D” (American) Steamship Line has a ship a week from New York to Curasao, and the other islands can be reached by coast ing boats from this port. The Danish West Indies consist of three small islands in the Caribbean sea, St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, their total area being 138 square miles, with a popula tion of about 25,000, mostly negroes, a few mulattoes and some European officials. St. Thomas, the largest in the group and about 26 miles from Fajardo, Porto Rico, is used as a coaling station for Hamburg-American ships in the Latin American trade. Its im ports of $1,000,000 in 1913 are chiefly ac

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