People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — Duties at Barbadoes Increased. [ARTICLE]

Duties at Barbadoes Increased.

Washington, May 22. —A report to the state department from Consul Tate at Barbadoes, West Indies, says that the supposed new tariff which he submitted in a statement recently has been agreed to. In addition to the Increase of duty uon American goods there has'been an Increase on dried and salt fish of 20 cents per 112 pounds, and on rice of 6 cents per 100 pounds. Molasses, formerly free, is 24 cents per gallon, and sugar, formerly free, is $2.40 per 100 pounds.