Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-29
TRADE IN OUR FAVOR.
Great Increase of Exports and an EX-
cess Over the Imports.
THE EFFECTS OF THE NEW TARIFF
More Gold and Silver Sent Out Than Was
Brought From Abroad.
OVER HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ARRIVE

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The Bureau
of Statistics of the Treasury Department
has issued a summary statement and review
of the foreign commerce and immigration
of the United States during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1891.
The statement says that the total value of
the commerce for the past fiscal year was
the greatest in the history of the Govern
ment, and exceeded total value of COM
merce of 1890 by Ss2, 191, ,SO3 The COM
merce of 1890 was the largest for any year
In the history of the Government, exceed
ing the commerce of the prior year by $780,
6O6,O63. Our total commerce during the
past fiscal year amounted to 81, ,729, 330, 1896.
During the year there was an increase in
imports of merchandise in the order of
magnitude in the following articles, coffee,
tin plates, hides and skins, fruits, chemicals
and drugs, india rubber and gutta percna,
sugar and molasses, etc. There has been
decline in our imports of wool and manu-
factures here of silk and manufacturers
there hemp and jute, manufacturers there
of breadstutfs and animals
VALUE OF THE IMPORTS.
The total value of our imports of mer-
chandise during the last year was S844,-
905, 491. The total value of our exports of
merchandise during the same period was
S8S4, 452, 405 which shows an excess in favor
of exports, during the fiscal year of $780,
519,914.
1t will be seen then, says the state
ment, that during the nine months since
the new tariff went into effect, of the total
value of merchandise imported into this
country 1896 per cent came in free, while
during the corresponding period of 1890,
"a. 90 per cent was admitted free. In fact,
it appears that the value of merchandise
imported free during the last nine months
of the past fiscal year was greater by $780,
600, 900 than the value of such merchandise
admitted du.ing the whole of 1890, and
nearly $40, 900, 900 greater than during the
prior fiscal year ended June 3O 1882
The exports of gold and silver during the
last fiscal year were S1OS, 729, ,28S; and the
imports were $50, ,212, 1884, an excess of ex-
ports of S72, ,516, 954
There has been large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year.
The total number arriving was 555, 456 as
against 451 ,219 during the fiscal year 1890,
showing an increase during the last fiscal
year of 1O4, ,277.
DOMESTIC EXPORT EXCESS.
There was also an excess of exports of do
mestic merchandise over such exports of the
prior year of S26, ,941, 49, The increase in
these exports has been in the following ar
ticles, stated in order of magnitude of in
crease: Raw cotton, provisions, refined
sugar, cotton manufactures, copper and
manufactures thereof, iron and steel and
manufactures thereof The value of the lead
ing articles of export from the United
States during the past year was as follows:
Cotton, 1920, 708, ,838; breadstuffs, S127 $685.
092; provisions, S19S, 176, $685.
Since the new tariff law has been in oper-
alton in America to June l, 1891, inclusive,
the total value of the imports of merchan-
disc were $500, 206. 005, as compared with
S598, 769, ,905, the value of such imports for
the corresponding period of 1890, which
shows an excess for the nine months of 1891
of S31, ,436, 100.
The value of the imports of merchandise
admitted free of duty during the nine
months ended June 80, 1891, was 1926, $685.
665, while the value of such imports for the
corresponding period of 1890 was S2eS, $685.
1873, showing an increase in the imports of
free merchandise during the past nine
months of $50, ,979,792 During the same
period ended June 80, 1891, the imports
in merchandise paying duty was of the
value of 1884, 242, $40, as compared with
S389, 7S6, ,032 for the corresponding period of
1890, so that it appears there has been de-
crease during the last nine months of the
fiscal year.