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NOTES AND MEMORANDA 563 The corresponding figures for 1889 were 248,935,195, 165,656,205 and 83,278,990 respectively. The value of the total exports including foreign and colonial merchandise was 328,252,118 in 1890 as compared with 315,592,699 in the preceding year. As regards the imports and exports into and from the various divisions of the kingdom the proportions in 1890 were as follows. Imports: England and Wales 89'5 of the total. Scotland 8'4 per cent. and Ireland 2-1 per cent. Exports: (British and Irish produce and manufacture): England and Wales 90'4 per cent. Scotland!9'5 and Ireland-1 per cent. It appears from tables which are given showing the quantities and values of British gold and silver coin, foreign gold and silver coin and gold and silver bullion, imported into and exported from the United Kingdom during the last five years, that the value of the imports of gold coin and bullion in 1890 was 23,568,049 as compared with 17,914,039 in 1889, and 0f the exports, 14,306,688 and 14,455,318 for 1890 and 1889 respectively. Silver coin and bullion was imported The to the value of 10,385,659 in 1890, and 9,185,400 in 1889. values of the exports of silver coin and bullion in 1890 and 1889 respectively 10,863,384 and 10,666,312. were Trade and Treaties Committee. Third Report (C--6349). TRxs is the third report of the Trade and Treaties Committee and deals with the new French Tariff Bill. It contains as an appendix-a translation of the general report by the Customs Commission of the French Chamber of Deputies which throws light on the motives and objects of the protectionist majority in the French Chamber. Without discussing this document the report states that as regards the proposed tariff arrangements in France they will constitute if carried out an set of commercial hostility to ?neighbouring countries. Many articles of British export which will be adversely affected by the proposed new tariff are separately dealt with in the report, and the conclusion of the commissioners is, that taking the tariff as a whole, the proposed measure will if passed produce injurious effects directly on British trade with France. United States Tariff. Return respecting the Customs Tariff of thc United States, including a. Tabular Statement, comparing thc rates of Import duty now levied with those which were in existence preyiotas to the 1st October, 1890; the'McKinley .4dministrative Act' and other documents (C--6381). Tins is a return issued by the Commercial Department of the Board of Trade, and shows in a comparative form the rates of import duty leviable in the United States, on goods imported into that country under the present and previous customs tariffs. It also gives the remaining provisions of the Tariff Act of October 1, 1890; the oo2