The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-31
FOREIGN COMMERCE.
Mammoth Proportion of Exports
and Imports.
OFFICIAL REPORT The PAST YEAR.
EsHeets Of the New TarIR Law on DutIabio
GoOds-The Export OF Gold and silver
Great Increase OF Imuat-
grafton

WASHINGTON. July 20.-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 dur
ing the fiscal year ended june 50, 1891,
and comparison of the imports and
exports of the past nine months, during
which the new tariff law has been in
effect as compared with the CORE
spending nine months of the preceding
fiscal year.
The statement says that the total
value of the commerce of the past fiscal
year was the greatest in the history OF
the government and exec eded the total
value of the commerce Of 1890 by SS2,-
19I, sos. The commerce of 1890 was the
largest for any year in the history OF
the government up to that time, ex-
ceeding the commerce of the prior year
by SI59, COG, COS. The total commerce
during the past fiscal year amounted to
81, T29, $50, 1896 During the year there
was an increase in imports Of merchGn-
disc in the order of magnitude, in the
following articles: Coffee, tin plates,
hides and skins, fruits chemicals and
drugs, India rubber and gutta Perchas
sugar and mOlasses, etc. There has
been a decline in the value of imports
of wool and manufactures thereof. silk
and manufactures thereof, hemp and
lutte and manufactures thereof, bread
stuffs and animals.
The total value Of imports OF mer-
chandise during the last year was SS44,-
sos, 49l. The total value of exports OF
merchandise during the same period
was 1854, 424. O5s which shows an excess
in favor of exports during the year OF
$50, 519, 914 There was also an excess
of exports of domestic merchandise
over imports of the prior year of S26, e41,-
T37. The increase in these exports has
ell. ETrTeaa
order of magnitude of increase: Raw
cotton, provisions, refined sugar, cotton
manufactures copper and manufact-
ures thereof, iron and steel and manu-
features thereof.
The value of the leading articles of
export from the United States during
the past year was as follows; Cotton,
$3.50, 7Os, sos; breadstuffs, SI27, s6s, O92s
and provisions, S13S. 179, 63S.
Since the new tariff law has been in
operation, from October 1899, to June
so, 1891, inclusive, the total value of the
imports Of merchandise was $3.50. 2O6,-
OO5, as compared with S59S, ZG9. 9O5, the
value of such imports for the CORE
spending period OF 1890 which shows an
excess for the nine months of 1891 OF
SS1, 4S6, 100. The value of the imports OF
merchandise admitted free of duty dur
ing the nine months ended June 80, 1891,
was 1926, 063, 655, while the value OF
such imports for the corresponding
period of 1890 was Sos, 963, ST3, showing
IN increase in the imports Of free
merchandise during the past nine
months of $50, 9Tg 9T2. During the same
period ended June 80, 1891. the imports
OF merchandise paying duty was of the
value Of 1884, 242, $40, as compared with
$3.50, 7S6, O82 for the corresponding period
OF 1890, that 10 appears there has
been a decrease during the last nine
months of the fiscal year of 1891 IA the
value of dutiable imports OF S55, 54S, 692
cit 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 import
ed into this country 40 96 per cent.
came in free, while during the CORE
spending period of 1850. "a. % 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 $50, OOO,-
600 than the value of such merchandise
admitted during the whole of 1890, and
nearly $40, OOO 600 greater than during
the prior fiscal year ended June 80.
1889"
The exports OF gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were Sos, 729, 2ss,
and the imports were s86, 2i2. 334. an ez-
cess of exports of So. 5I6, 954. The ez-
ports of gold during the last fiscal year
were $50, 1858, 622- The imports of gold
were SIS, 246, 512, showing an excess Of
exports OF gold of S6s, III, I1O-the
largest in any year.
There has been a large increase in
the volume OF immigration into the
United States during the last fiscal
year. The total number arriving was
555, $50 as against 45l, 319 during the is
cal year 1890, showing an increase dur
ing the last fiscal year OF IO4, 27T. This
increase is largely from the following
countries: Italy, 28 S54; Abstraction
gary, Il, 1851; Germany, 81, I22; Russia,
including Poland, 2s, 245.