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The chief imports are Australian coal, and general merchandise from Europe, but most sailing ships arrive in ballast. The exports are sugar, tobacco, rice, coffee, hides, and hemp; it is also the principal place of manufacture of pina, juse, and sinamoya, a tissue greatly in use among the Philippines. In 1883, 93,750 tons of sugar were exported, principally to America.
The manufacture of both these articles is carried on to a small extent in the immediate neighbourhood of Manilla; but in the provinces of Yloylo and Camarines the best jusè is produced, the price of which is very much lower than piña, as a lady's dress of it may be got at from seven to twenty dollars; and for the latter amount a very handsome one would be obtained.
Since the beginning of this year , however, I understand some changes have been made in the tariff by altering the valuations of goods. Kambayas are used as sayas, or outer petticoats, by the native or Mestiza girls, and are generally made of cotton cloth, although, of late, jusè and silk sayas appear to be more generally worn than they used to be.
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