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Business, Nationality and Dependency in Late Nineteenth Century Brazil

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Eugene W. Ridings
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‘No one is unaware,’ stated Brazil's Minister of Finance Ruj Barbosa in 1891, ‘that commerce, especially large-scale commerce, in our most important trade centers resides in greatest part, not to say in its near entirety, in the hands of foreigners.’ Rui was calling attention to a situation of increasing concern to Brazilian leaders: the preponderance of foreigners in big business. Another Brazilian Minister of Finance, Felisbello Freire, remarked on the subject in 1894, ‘to my mind this phenomenon is an indication of a subjugation which, dating from colonial times, threatens the annulment of native commerce.’.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , May 1982 , pp. 55 - 96
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26 Some business occupations taxed in the highest bracket, such as Coal Merchant, had less than ten members annually. Others, such as ‘Hydraulic Elevator Entrepreneur’, were esoteric. Ibid., p. 747.

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28 In Industries and Professions Tax records they are listed separately, but are combined here to aid statistical analysis.

29 Commission merchants were placed in the third, and after 1888 in the second, of the Industries and Professions Tax's brackets. However, this reflects the nature of their profit-taking, rather than the lucrativeness of the occupation. Because commission merchants, unlike most other businessmen, could not expand their margin of profit to compensate for increased taxation, it was considered unfair to tax them at the rate of other overseas traders. Pernambuco, , Presidente da Província, p. 16.Google Scholar

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31 Stanley, J. Stein, Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850–1900 (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, 1957), pp. 82–2: Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay,Google ScholarHistória do café no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Departamento Nacional do Café, 1939–1943), VII, 67–9. For a detailed treatment of comissários and their role in Brazil's economy,Google Scholar see Joseph, Earl Sweigart, ‘Financing and Marketing Brazilian Export Agriculture: The Coffee Factors of Rio de Janeiro, 1850–1888’ (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, 1980).Google Scholar

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39 All three were taxed at the same rate. Most British firms, which were the leading handlers of coffee, ironware, and dress goods, engaged in both exportation and importation. Graham, , Britain and Modernization, p. 84.Google Scholar

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45 This is partially confirmed by Joseph Sweigart's exhaustive study of Rio de Janeiro coffee comisórios from 1850 to 1888. Basing his data mainly on Industries and Professions Tax records, Sweigart finds the nationality of comissários to have been 48 per cent Brazilian, 47 per cent Portuguese, and 5 per cent other European. However, he also finds the nationality of individual partners in Rio de Janeiro comissário firms between 1870 and 1888 to have been 57 per cent Brazilian, 42 per cent Portuguese, and I per cent other European. The discrepancy might be partially explained by a larger proportion of Brazilians among silent partners, theoretically inactive in the firm's business, in comissário firms. Sweigart, , op. cit., pp. 59n., 70, 253, 255, 260.Google Scholar

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65 Estatística das indústrias e profissōes sujeitas no exercício de 1873 a 1874 ao imposto de que trata o regulamento de 23 de Março de 1869, Arquivo do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, Arquivo do Barāo de Cotegipe, lata 85, doc. 24.

66 As of 1872 Bahia had six operating textile plants and a number of other factories. Bahia, Presidente cia Província, Falla com que o excellentíssimo senhor Dezembargador Joāo Antônio de Araújo Freitas Henriques abrio a primeira sessāo da décima nona legislatura da Assembléa da Província da Bahia em primeiro de Março de 1872 (Salvador, Correio da Bahia, 1871), pp. 131–4.Google Scholar

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