Contents:
Argentina. General Roca's 1st administration; imports of electrical apparatus; principal articles of export; destruction of locusts.
Brazil. Steamship communication with Rio de Janeiro; introduction of United States products; imports of breadstuffs at Rio; production of carbons.
Chile. Coal mining under the ocean.
Chile. Financial position of.
Colombia. Budget 1899, railway statistics, new loan; manufacture and price of soap; Darien gold-mining region.
Ecuador. Proposed South American confederation [Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia].
Haiti. Reduction of duty on soap.
Latin America, Export bounties in.
Mexico. Annual message of President Diaz; law relating to tonnage and other dues; value of imports and exports; imports of coal, coke, and iron; extensive agricultural scheme.
Nicaragua. New mining enterprises; Nicaragua Canal contracts; demarcation of [Costa Rican] boundary.
Paraguay. Code of Commercial Nomenclature adopted as official text; production of coffee; market for manufactured articles; registration of trade-marks; production of oranges; inducements to immigrants.
Philippines, Articles used in.
Provisional directorship of bureau.
South America, Promotion of immigration in.
Trade miscellany.
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Bureau of American Republics at.
United States. Trade with Latin America; additional Pacific steamship line; financial position strengthened; marks on imported goods.
Uruguay. Trade during 1897; principal articles of export; financial affairs; new Minister of Foreign Relations.
Venezuela. Importance of [Anglo-Venezuelan] Court of Arbitration; purchases from United States in September; concession to porcelain manufacturer; establishment of mechanics' bank; suggestions to exporters.