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	£	s.	d.
Sugar—colonial duty:
On muscovado	1	4	0
On foreign	3	0	0
On molasses	0	9	0
On foreign	1	18	9
Coffee — British possessions per lb.	0		6
Foreign growth, except from British ports, within limits of East India Company's possessions, where it pays 9d.
Distilled spirits, colonial	0	9	0
Foreign	1	2	6
Wines, colonial	0	2	9
Foreign	0	5	6
Timber, colonial[1]:
Hard wood, per load	0	5	0
Pine and fir of all kinds	0	10	0
Foreign	2	15	0
Cotton-wool per cwt.	0	0	4
Foreign	0	2	11
Wool, sheep's, colonial	free
Foreign	0	9	4
Fish, free ; foreign nearly all prohibited.
Tallow per cwt	0	1	0
Foreign	0	3	2
Rice, colonial per cwt.	0	1	0
Foreign	0	15	0
Rough rice per qr.	0	1	0
Foreign	1	0	0

Spices and all tropical colonial productions have high differential duties.

	£	s.	d.
Fish oil. Colonial per tun	0	1	0
Of foreign taking	26	12	0
Hides and skins about 100 percent, protective duty. On some the duties are equal. Furs are protected if from North America, chiefly from Hudson's Bay.
Bark from British possessions per cwt.	0	0	1
Foreign	0	0	8
Honey per cwt.	0	5	0
Foreign	0	15	0
Soap per cwt.	0	1	8
Foreign	0	4	10
Wax per cwt.	0	10	0
Foreign	1	10	0
All seed oils per tun £39 18s.	0	1	0
Ashes	free
Foreign	0	6	0
Copper and metals of all kinds, high protective duties.
Bark per cwt.	0	0	1
Foreign	0	3	0

1. Being a differential protection of 450 per cent., taking the various rates of duty on colonial and on foreign deals, staves, spars, masts, battens, hoops, and all kinds of timber, there is much about the same differential duties to protect the colonial.