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Show China and Dependencies Get Benefit of Lowest Tariff Rates WASHINGTON", aiurch IN. Tho president presi-dent has Issued proclamations declaring that tho following countries arc entitled lo the minimum rates of the, Payne-Al-drlch act: Tho empire of China, includliifr nil Its clept'iidfncicfl; Oman. Afghanistan. Nepal, Khutau. Johorc. Luxemburg. Montenegro, Monaco. Andrra. San Mnrlno. Ucchtcn-Kioin, Ucchtcn-Kioin, Haiti. The Kwantung Territory, el Ilnl 1. Kao Chow. German Pos-Kostdon Pos-Kostdon In Samoa. Gorman New Guinea, iiu-ludinpr tho insular possession of the Carolines: Pclcw and the Marianne islands, Mnrshall, Brown and Provldenco islands. Straits Settlements, including keeling islands; tho Federated Malay Ktntex, Northern Nigeria protectorate, Southern Nigeria protectorate, LfiKos, Gold Coast Colony, including Ashnmce; the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Ia-oiic. the Colony and Protectorate of Gambia, Fiji. Tonga and Turkish pos-Hcsslutig pos-Hcsslutig in Africa. China, commercially the most Important Impor-tant nation In the list. 1ms a toUil trade with the world for 190S of ? 13G.2oS.000. of which the United States had 542,,,nri,000. The exports of the United States to China amounted to S2G.S1 0,000, and the Imports of the United States from China that year aggregated 515.IS5.000. The principal exports from the United States to China were mineral oils. $8.-fC.1.000. $8.-fC.1.000. cotton manufactures, S'l.-n 3.000; 1 copper manufactures. $3,231,000; wheat Hour, $1,923,000; tobacco, $1,518,000, iron and steel. 51.175.000; manufactures of woods, $1,002,000. The Importation Into tho United States from China for the year I00S Included raw and wnate silk. SS.UID.OOO; toa, $4.-017.000; $4.-017.000; hides and skins, J'-'.OnD.OOO; raw-wools raw-wools $2,110,000; opium, $1,323,000; mats and matting. $1,034,000. Tho statistics show there was an Increase In-crease In Importations into the United States from China during tho ten years ending- In 1008 of 23.1 per cent, and an Increase of Import during the same period of 123.; per cent |