Special Consular Reports, Volume 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 - Consular reports |
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100 kilograms agents American flour American lead American wheat flour amount antimony Antwerp Argentine Republic Austria-Hungary average bakers banks barrel Belgium bread bushels cent Consul consular district consumption cost duty on wheat ending June 30 England EXCHANGE AND SHIPPING exported extension of trade facilities for monetary florins florins per 100 FLOUR AND WHEAT FOREIGN LEAD France freight Germany grain hectoliters Hungarian import duty importation of American IMPORTS OF FLOUR IMPORTS OF WHEAT increase Italy June 30 kilos lead and zinc lead or zinc manufactured metal millers mills milreis monetary exchange OBSTACLES TO TRADE picul Poods port pounds principal QUALITY OF FLOUR quantity of American quantity of wheat River Plate Russia sacks sheets SHIPPING FACILITIES silver smelting spelter standard of living statistics steamers Switzerland tons Total trade in American TRADE OUTLOOK United Kingdom wheat and flour wheat flour imported wheat imported zinc mines
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Page 154 - Congress assembled, that the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States shall be that of the pure metal of such coin of standard value ; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the .world shall be estimated annually by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed on the first day of January by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 485 - Singapore, which are the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Mercantile Bank of India (limited).
Page 154 - IS79> 1881, and 1882 are omitted, these years being selected as showing the least fluctuations when compared with years immediately preceding and following. To save unnecessary repetition, the estimates of valuations are divided into three classes, viz: (A) countries with fixed currencies, (B) countries with fluctuating currencies, and (C) quarterly valuations of fluctuating currencies.
Page 154 - The following statements, running from January 1, 1874, to April 1, 1894, have been prepared to assist in computing the proper values in American money of the trade, prices, values, wages, etc., of and in foreign countries, as given in consular and other reports. The series of years are given so that computations may be made for each year in the proper money values of such year.
Page 476 - ... reports, and that such reports should also contain such further and other data as might be called for by the insular treasurer. Examinations and reports have been made in accordance with the law at the periods required. Copies of the most recent reports of all the banks doing business in the islands, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, El Banco Espanol-Filipino, and the Monte de Piedad are hereto annexed and marked Appendices R, S, and...
Page 154 - FOREIGN WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The following table embraces only such weights and measures as are given from time to time in CONSULAR REPORTS and in Commercial Relations: Foreign weights and measures, with American equivalents.
Page 154 - are to be taken (by customs officers) in computing the value of all foreign merchandise made out in any of said currencies, imported into the United States.
Page 154 - Department from incurring loss in such transactions, add the rate of exchange to these valuations. *In 1874 and 1875 the gold standard prevailed in the Argentine Republic. Its currency does not appear in the statements again until 1883, when the double standard prevailed, and the peso attained a fixed value of 96.5 cents. fOn reference to the table of "fluctuating currencies...
Page 156 - Hectogram (100 grams) equals 3.5274 ounces. Kilogram (1,000 grams) equals 2.2046 pounds. Myriagram (10,000 grams) equals 22.046 pounds. Quintal (100,000 grams) equals 220.46 pounds. Millier or tonnea — ton (1,000,000 grams) equals 2,204.6 pounds. Metric dry measures. Milliliter (y^Vtf liter) equals 0.061 cubic inch. Centiliter (yJ-B liter) equals 0.6102 cubic inch. Deciliter (^ liter) equals 6.1022 cubic inches.
Page 385 - Slates, to whom I am indebted for the greater part of the information contained in this...