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Import Duties:
	1 box, 128 kilos (stove), iron, without brass or copper ornaments, at 19 cents per kilo	$24 42
	1 box, 31·3 kilos, iron pipe, at 24 cents per kilo	7 51
	1 box iron pots, with brass handles, at 24 cents per kilo	9 48
		$41 41
	Add 4 per cent as per tariff	1 65
	$43 06
	Package duty, 50 cents per 100 kilos	1 00
	$44 06
	Add 5 per cent as per tariff	2 20
	$46 26
	Add 2 per cent municipal duty	93
	$47 19
	Add 5 per cent consumption duty	2 36
	$49 55
	Dispatch of goods at Buena Vista station, city of Mexico	38
	Stamps for permit	50
			$50 43
			$107 03
	Cartage in city of Mexico		75
	Total		$107 78

Résumé:
	Original cost of stove, with exchange	$31 80
	Freight, consular fees, and forwarding	24 80
	Import duties	50 43
	Cartage	75
	Total	$107 78

[Note.—This stove was shipped from El Paso in a lot of goods for Messrs.——& Co., the largest importing house in Mexico, thereby saving an expense of two thirds the consular fee—$14.56—which, if paid on the invoice alone, would have added $9.71 to charges, and raised the total to $117.49.]

In 1878 Hon. John W. Foster, then United States minister to Mexico, in a communication to the Manufacturers' Association of the Northwest (Chicago), thus analyzed the items of the cost, in the city of Mexico, of a tierce, weighing gross 328 pounds, containing 300 pounds (net) of sugar-cured hams:

New York cost, 300 pounds at 11 cents	$33 00
New York expenses, such as cartage, consular invoice ($4 gold), manifest, etc., average 5 per cent on large shipments	1 65
Freight from New York to Vera Cruz at 1 cent per pound, payable in New York	3 25
Exchange on New York, $37.90 at 18 per cent	6 82
Import duties in Vera Cruz, 138 kilos at 24 cents per kilo	33 12
Municipal duties in Vera Cruz, $1.03 for every 400 pounds	84
Lighterage and handling from steamer to warehouse ($1 to $1.50 per every 200 pounds)	1 63
Maritime brokerage, 2 per cent on freight ($3.25)	07