The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-30
ONE YEARS BUSINESS
Commerce of the United States
the Greatest Ever Known.
OUTWARD FLOW or GOLD.
Increase OF Exports OF Domestic Goods
and Imports OF Free Goods The
Growth of Foreign Immigration.

WASHINGTON CITY, July 2s.-The bureau of
statistics OF the treasury department has issued
review of the foreign commerce and immigra-
ton OF the United States during the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1891 It gives also a comparison
Of imports and exports for the past nine months
during which the new tariff law has been in
effect, ss compared with the corresponding
nine months preceding. The total commerce of
the past fiscal year was the greatest in the his
tory of the government, and exceeds the total
value OF the commerce of 1890 by So, 19l ,s03.
The commerce of 1890 was the largest
the government up 70 that time, exceeding the
commerce of the previous year by slJs.eo6o6s.
Our total commerce during the past fiscal year
amounted 10 sl,729, 329, s96. During the year
there was an increase of our imports OF mer-
chandise in the order OF magnitude in the fol-
lowing articles Coffee, tin plates, hides and
skins, fruits, chemicals and drugs, India
rubber and gutta percha, sugar and molasses,
ETC. There has been decline in the value OF
our imports in wool and the manufactures
thereof, in silk and the manufactures thereof,
in hemp and iuto and the manufactures
thereof, and In breadstuffs and animals. The
total value OF the exports of merchandise was
ssS4, 425, 405, which shows an excess in favor OF
the exports during the fiscal year of sS9, 5f9,9l4
There was also an excess of export in
domestic merchandise over such exports in the
prior year of s26.94.7S7. The increase in exports
has been in the following articles, stated in the
order of the magnitude Of increase: Raw cot
ton, provisions refined sugar, cotton manu-
features, copper and the manufactures thereof,
iron and steel and the manufactures thereof.
The value of the leading articles exported from
the United States during the past year was as
follows:
Cotton 500, 7G8 sa8
IBreaus,uus......-.- -.-...--........ I2s,oos,OJS
rfo'islohs. -....-.............---.. IZo,liotoo
Since the new tariff law has been in force,
from October g. 1890, to June 80, 1891, inclusive,
the total value of imports OF merchandise was
;6S0, 206.005, as compared with $685. sos, 905 for
the corresponding period of $780, which shows
an excess for the nine months of s31, 436, 100.
Tie value of the imports of merchandise adj
mitted free during the nine months ended June
80, 1891, s295 Cos, while the value of such
imports for the corresponding period of 1890
was sos, 1888 1913, showing increase of imports
admitted free during the past nine months o.
sS6,97g,792. During the same period, ended Tune
80. 1891, the imports of merchandise paying duty
were of the value of 1854, PAP ,ste as compared
with $3.50 7s6,o2 for the corresponding period of
1880, so Ii appears that there has been a decrease
during the last nine months OF the fiscal year
1891, In the value of dutiable imports, of 54,
692
During the nine months since the new tariff
Went into effect, OF the total value of merchan-
came free, while during the corresponding pc
Rod OF 1890 1892 per cent. admitted free. II
appears that the value of merchandise imported
free during the last nine months of the past
fiscal year was greater by $50. 900 than the
value of such merchandise admitted during
1890. and nearly $i0,000,0O0 greater
than during the fiscal year ended June So $780,
The exports OF gold and silver during the last
fiscal year were $l0S 100 2sS and the imports were
$780,, 1884, an excess in the exports of s72516
954 The exports of gold during the last fiscal
year were SIS, S63,622. The imports of gold were
$685. l2 showing excess OF exports of $685.
1l7,l10. the largest excess in exports OF gold in
any year of our commerce. There has been
large increase in the volume of immigration
TO the United States during the last fiscal year
The total number arriving 555, 456, as against
l,2l9, an increase during the year of l04,277.
This increase is largely from the following
countries:
Italy ........... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 29S54
Austria Hungary Observation-Disclosures. 1861
GERMANY. $3.50. ..........-........ 2l,122
Russia 0ncluding Poandl . 2s 245