1 .. .. Russia, .. 1 .. .. Austria, .. 1 .. .. Saint Marinan, .. 1 .. .. Mexico, .. 1 .. .. Venezuela, .. 1 .. .. Custom-House. The Montevideo custom-house produces the principal revenue the public treasury counts with. The other custom-houses all over the littoral and in the Brazilian frontiers are comparatively a great deal less important. Imports have to pay general duties _ad valorem_, which vary between 8 and 51 per cent., and also specific duties, such as for wine, brandy, tobacco, rice, sugar, petroleum, olive oil, beer, matches, etc. There is a law regulating these specific duties. According to the law of the year 1888 all national products were free from duty; but in the year 1890 a new law restored the specific duty. Corn, wheat, flour and lucerne pay also the specific duty. Since the year 1888 many modifications have been introduced in the custom duties laws, in order to increase the revenue and also to protect national industry. Besides the duties _ad valorem_ there is also an additional duty of 5 per cent. Laws. IMPORTS. Article 1. All goods imported from foreign countries for consumption will pay a duty of 31 per cent. of its value, excepting the following goods, which will pay: 1, 51 per cent.--arms, powder, ammunitions, snuff, tobacco, perfumery, cheese, butter, ham, preserved meats and all eatables preserved in tin boxes or in bottles, rockets and mine, quarry and gun powder. 2, 48 per cent.--brushes in general, painting brushes, shoes of all sorts, ready-made linen, hats, furniture, coaches, harnesses, medicaments, formularies and business papers either lithographed or printed. 3, 44 per cent.--cakes and pastry of all sorts, chocolate, candles in general, vermicelli, jams, soles and tanned skins. 4, 20 per cent.--lumber in general, iron, either plate, crow, joist or ingot, steel plate, copper and brass ingots, tin plate, lead bar or plate, zinc plate or ingot, fresh fruits, roof tiles, slates, Roman cement, vegetal coal, quicksilver, tin, talc, plaster, tar, pitch, sack-cloth, forage in general and empty match-boxes. 5, 12 per cent.--potatoes of all sorts, even those imported for sowing. 6, 8 per cent.--printed and bound books, typography or lithography machines or presses, printing types, white paper for newspapers, lithography paper, 87 centim. long by 54 broad, printing ink, flower and vegetable seeds, sulphuric, nitric and chlorhydric acids, gums, phosphorus, gold jewels and gold and silver watches. 7, 6 per cent.--printed books without binding, maps and geographical globes and all things necessary for natural, physical and mathematical studies, mineral coal in general, sea or rock salt and precious stones.