A Statement of the Claims of the West India Colonies to a Protecting Duty Agains
A Statement of the Claims of the West India Colonies to a Protecting Duty Agains
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251. s. ti 19 Si- 8 21- 5 3 9 H^ * Prime cost . . . ' India charges on tliat sent liome amounted to lis. Ld. \ say they can be reduced to . . . ' Freight ' Charges of merchandize in England 53 lOi per cwt. * e. Vchisive of interest of money, insurance, and * rvastafj^e. ' We perfectly agree with the Board, that * iin- * less the prices in India can be reduced, the * sugar will not answer for the European mar- * ket, ' and that, * unless the freight can be low- * ered, 19^. S^d. Is the highest p...rice the trade * will bear in the time of peace:' but, as tlie prices of Ganjam sugar were, on an average, Qos. Per cwt. In 179^? so do the accounts of every private trader, of the Liverpool com- mittee, of the East India Company, equally prove that any expectation of purchasing sugar at 19^. S^d. Prime cost, must be wholly ground- less. To put this beyond all possible dispute, and to show that the statement, made by the Liverpool committee, of the first cost in India, is below the general standard, the Directors have favoured us with a table* of the prices of sugar in the Calcutta market for ten years, from * Fourth Appendix, pp.
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