Excerpt from The Tariff on Long-Staple Cotton and Its Effects The duty-appears to have caused the spread between the united-states and foreign price of a given quality of Egyptian Sakellaridis cotton to average about 7 cents per pound greater With.the duty than it would have with out the duty. In the case of Sakellaridis it appears that the duty caused a smaller increase in the United States price and a larger decrease in the foreign price - than was true of Egyptian Uppers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.