26  SELLING  LATIN  AMERICA

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  articles, ­
  and  supplies,  scales,  refrigerators,  cement, ­
  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,  textiles, ­
  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