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Cardemoms .. 266 Pepper (black) .. 400 Cassiabuds .. 140 Pepper (white) .. 266 Cloves .. 240 Rhubarb (common) .. 500 Coculus Indicus .. 1,400 Rice (Java) .. 150 Coffee .. 373 Rum (Bengal) .. 1,142 Cubebs .. 320 Sago pearl .. 100 Dragon’s blood .. 465 Sugar (Bengal white) .. 118 Gamboge .. 187 Ditoo (Hudding 128 Gum Ammoniac .. 466 white). Myrph .. 187 Ditoo (low and 152 Nux Vomica .. 266 brown). Oil of Cassia .. 343
But England did not stop with this high tariff. She went a step further and made an invidious discrimination against Indian goods which (bore)* import duty much higher than that on the same goods from other parts of the world. This will become manifest by the import duty figures given by M’Aclloch’s Commercial Dictionary respecting the goods from the East Indies and West Indies and other colonies.
Articles East Indies West Indies, etc.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Sugar per Qnt. .. 1 12 0 1 4 0
Coffee per Ib. .. 0 0 9 0 0 6
Spirits, Sweetend per gallon .. 1 10 0 1 0 0
Spirits not Sweetened per gallon 0 15 0 0 8 6
Tamarinds per Ib. .. 0 0 6 0 0 2
Succades per Ib. .. 0 0 6 0 0 3
Tobacco per Ib. .. 0 3 0 0 2 9
Wood—teak under 8 inches square 1 10 0 0 10 0
per load.
Wood—not particularly enumerat- 20 per cent 5 per cent
ed, ad valorem .
The English tariff on Indian goods was not not only discriminating but differed with the use to which they were put to in England, as will be seen from the following answers of
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