As shown below, she has only two goatskins to sell and wants 100 pesos each, while the middleman begins his offer with 100 pesos for both.
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The other has to accept the position of the oppressed, inept seller, who actually has to "agree" to give her goatskins away at a disadvantageous price.
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The export duties are £60 per ton on goatskins, £35 per ton on sheepskins, and £22 per ton on cattle hides.
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Why are not goatskins on the free list also?
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The total imports of goatskins into this country last year were roughly 5,000,000 skins.
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The trade cannot understand why raw hides should be on the free list and not raw goatskins.
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There is a definite danger to the glace industry if goatskins are not put on the free list.
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I suggest that the printing of documents ongoatskinis not one of them.
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What are the reasons for not putting goatskins on the free list?
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It is made ofgoatskinand lined in satin acetate rayon.
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It has 10 times the tensile strength of cowhide and is 50% stronger thangoatskin.
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Then they were loaded onto a barge which required 600 goatskins and sheepskins to keep it afloat.
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Some are eaten fresh while others are preserved, either by storage ingoatskinbags or pottery jars, or by drying in the sun.
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