Excerpt from Tariff and Trade I have not troubled readers with footnotes giving the authorities for statistical and other information. I will simply say here that my sources have been principally official, and, in addition to the various abstracts published by the English Board of Trade, I have had frequent re course to the official publications of other countries, while occasionally I have been favoured with the inspection of private documents. Now and again I have availed myself of unofficial material, but never when its publication has been for purely contro versial purposes. 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.