The tabular statement presented below shows the quantity and value of our leading exports of domestic merchandise to the Hawaiian Islands during the ten months ended April 30, 1896 and 1897, respectively.

Principal articles of domestic merchandise exported from the United States to the Hawaiian Islands during the ten months ended April 30, 1896 and 1897, respectively.

Principal articles of domestic merchandise exported from the United States to the Hawaiian Islands, etc.-Continued.

VII.

Tariff and Customs Regulations.

RECIPROCITY WITH THE UNITED STATES.

The Hawaiian treaty (act of Congress August 15, 1876, which went into effect September 9, 1876) provides that "the following articles, being the growth and manufacture or produce of the Hawaiian Islands, to wit: Arrowroot; castor oil; bananas; nuts; vegetables, dried and undried, preserved and unpreserved; hides and skins, undressed; rice; pulu; seeds; plants; shrubs, or trees; muscovado, brown, and all other unrefined sugar, meaning hereby the grades of sugar heretofore commonly imported from the Hawaiian Islands, and now known in the markets of San Francisco and Portland as Sandwich Island sugar;' sirups of sugar cane, melado, and molasses; tallow-shall be introduced into the United States free of duty so long as the said convention shall remain in force." Of the above-named articles, the following are free of duty when imported from all countries: Plants, tropical and semitropical, for the purpose of propagation or cultivation; hides and skins, undressed; seeds: anise and anise-star, canary, cardamom, caraway, and coriander, cumin, fenugreek, and fennel, forest tree, mustard, brown or white, sugar-beet, and sugar-cane.

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The treaty further provides that—

The following articles, being the growth, manufacture, or produce of the United States of America, shall be introduced into the Hawaiian Islands free of

'From Monthly Summary of Finance and Commerce for May, 1897, issued by Bureau of Statistics, United States Treasury Department.

duty: Agricultural implements; animals; beef, bacon, pork, ham, and all fresh, smoked, or preserved meats; boots and shoes; grain, flour, meal, and bran, bread and breadstuffs of all kinds; bricks, lime, and cement; butter, cheese, lard, tallow; bullion; coal; cordage, naval stores, including tar, pitch, resin, turpentine, raw and rectified; copper and composition sheathing; nails and bolts; cotton and manufactures of cotton, bleached and unbleached, and whether or not colored, stained, painted, or printed; eggs, fish, and oysters, and all other creatures living in the water, and the products thereof; fruits, nuts, and vegetables, green, dried or undried, preserved or unpreserved; hardware; hides, furs, skins, and pelts, dressed or undressed; hoop iron, and rivets, nails, spikes and bolts, tacks, brads or sprigs; ice; iron and steel, and manufactures thereof; leather; lumber and timber of all kinds, round, hewed, sawed, and unmanufactured, in whole or in part; doors, sashes, and blinds; machinery of all kinds; engines, and parts thereof; oats and hay; paper, stationery, and books, and all manufactures of paper or of paper and wood; petroleum and all oils for lubricating or illuminating purposes; plants, shrubs, trees, and seeds; rice; sugar, refined or unrefined; salt; soap; shooks, staves, and headings; wool, and manufactures of wool other than ready-made clothing; wagons and carts for the purposes of agriculture or of drayage; wood, and manufactures of wood, or of wood and metal, except furniture, either upholstered or carved, and carriages; textile manufactures made of combination of wool, cotton, silk, or linen, or of any two or more of them other than when ready-made clothing; harness and all manufactures of leather; starch; and tobacco, whether in leaf or manufactured.

Of the foregoing articles, the following are admitted into the Hawaiian Islands free of duty from all countries: Animals; coal; copper sheathing, and all descriptions of sheathing metal; pig iron; plate iron of one-eighth of one inch in thickness and upward; books printed in the Hawaiian language, and plants and seeds not for sale.

RECENT TARIFF CHANGES.

The Hawaiian legislature passed a law in 1896, says Consul General Mills, in his report of August 31, 1896, “to increase the duty on spirituous liquors, still wines, and other beverages made from material other than grape juice." This act increases the duty on Japanese saki from 15 to 60 cents per gallon. The same

legislature also passed an act admitting free of duty into the Islands wines made from the juice of the grape containing less than 18 per cent of alcohol. Wines of this character formerly paid an import duty of 15 cents per gallon. This act admits California wines into Hawaii free of duty from January 1, 1897. Parts of bicycles, for repairing, and glass, when a component part of furniture, are now admitted free. Formerly a duty of 10 per cent was levied on these articles.

DIGEST OF HAWAIIAN TARIFF, 1897.'

The designation "N. O. P." in case of Free Goods would mean that such goods to be free must come strictly within the schedule laid down in the Treaty of Reciprocity; for instance, a wooden-backed mirror. In this case, the wood part is free as manufactures of wood, but the glass being the component part of chief value, the whole article thereby becomes dutiable (or N. O. P.).

In the case of dutiable goods where N. O. P. (†) is designated, it would indicate that such articles are either free under certain clauses of Civil Code, or that the component part of chief value is an article which pays a higher rate of duty than 10 per cent, or vice versa, less than the highest rate of duty.

The star (*) indicates goods free by treaty from the United States of America, being the growth, produce, or manufacture thereof, and being properly certified to. +* indicates free as above, unless otherwise provided for.

'As compiled by the Hawaiian Customs Bureau and printed at Honolulu, 1897.