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allowed our nation due to the fact that we are 
the largest consumers of her leading staple— 
coffee. According to government decree No. 
9323, of January 17, 1912, flour imported 
from the States pays 30 per cent, less duty than 
if imported from any other land, while dried 
fruit, condensed milk, typewriters, rubber ar 
ticles, and supplies, scales, refrigerators, ce 
ment, corsets, school furniture, wind-mills, 
watches, desks and printing inks, pay 20 per 
cent, less duty than similar articles imported 
from other countries. 
Brazil exports coffee, rubber, hides, skins, 
cacao, tobacco, salt, cotton, sugar, woods, nuts, 
precious and semi-precious stones and gold. 
She imports foodstuffs, shoes, machinery, tex 
tiles, building woods, ammunition, wheat, 
automobiles, vehicles, codfish, dried fruits, 
glass, toilet articles, building and kitchen 
hardware, cement, scientific instruments, iron 
and steel, enamelled ware, paints and varnish, 
haberdashers’ goods, cottons, hats, corrugated 
iron, galvanized iron, tools, condensed milk, 
stationery, pipe, printing material and