The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
THE EXHIBIT FOR THE FIRST ELEVEN
MONTHS OF 1875.

THE EXHIBIT FOR THE FIRST ELEVEN
MONTHS OF 1875.
The monthly returns of the Bureau
of Statistics, given in our last issue, en-
able us to ascertain the volume of the
foreign trade of the country for the
first eleven months of the past calendar
year. The November merchandise
movement shows decrease, compared
with the same month of 1874, Of ST.
$50, 1874 in the imports, and an increase
of 81, 1855, 1872 in the exports, while, in
the specie movement of the month,
there is an increase of 81 ,057 ,665 in
the imports and decrease of 81, 700,-
958 in the exports.
Taking the movement for the eleven
months, we find the imports of mer-
chandise and specie combined to COM
pare as follows with the same period of
the two preceding years:
IMPORTS FOR ELEVEN MONTHS ENDING NOV. 30
Merchandise s47l sss sa25 assa22 s5ei sos $50
Specie. 81 ,4O6,s62 ID. l49,6S6 q ,52s. S3S
4s4 200 s5ss, Ala, sOs s5ss, ss7 O.Js
Decrease on v3. 1854, 39s.
The imports for the eleven months,
inclusive of specie, aggregated 1892
494, 700, against 1888, Alb, 3OS for the
same period of 1874 and s5S9, 337 ,098
in 1873. For the same months of
1S72-the year next preceding the
panic year-the figures were 1851 ,022,s
213; so that, compared with that pc
riod, there is a falling off amounting
to S141 ,527, 513, or at the rate of over
% per cent; which may be regarded as
representing the shrinkage in the i'm
port trade that has followed the panic.
The exports of domestic produce for
the eleven months amount, in currency
values, to s502, 1872 ,099, against 1862
632, 31S for the same period of 1874,
showing decrease in round numbers
of $50, DOC, 900, or in about the same
ratio as the falling off that has occurred
in imports. In order, however, to esti
mate the export movement accurately,
it is necessary to reduce the currency
figures to specie values; and we there
fore avail ourselves of the specie valu
ations made up by the Bureau. The
exports of all kinds, specie included,
expressed in gold value, were as follows
for the eleven months, compared with
the figures for the corresponding period
of 1874 and 1873:
EXPORTS, GOLD VALUE. FOR ELEVEN MONTHS
ENDED NOVEMBER 20.
chandise IS, $50 si9s, 7sI oo5 $3.50 81 o;s
Foreign mdse ll,2i4,2so 1i,sls,IO3 1925, is5
Gle =. .e5so!,sz si,7l7s.i $500, 2se
Foreign specie ssi5,6s7 = 5,s70ij0 $751;. l9s
s5zs s5s, 1913 s572 5OI s567 1872 o5
is74.......,,...... 4,.sssoos
Decrease
ls13......-.. y, s;Ss ,5Js
Thus, the gold value of the exports
for the eleven months shows decrease
Of s44, 5SS, 00S compared with 1874,
and of s3S, 1888 ,55S compared with
1873. The gold value of imports and
exports, specie in both cases included,
compares as follows:
1873. 1874. ISs.;.
months sis2, 49i,7oO s53s. 1925 $3.50. ~. ,o9s
months. 52s, s53.4s3::. 572,sII ,JOi 567 1872 o5l
Excess of ex-
ports ss5 ,s5s7s3 sA,52s, 1876 .......,-.
Excess OF i'm
The exports last year overbalanced
the imports by $50, 1873, 1913, and in
1874 by s34,52s, 1893; whereas, in
1873, the imports exceeded the exports
by S22, 145, 047. This important change
in the trade balance since the panic is
due to the fact that we are now no lon
ger paying for large amounts of i'm
portation by the export Of securi,ies.-
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