The rustler., 1891-08-07
FoREIon coMMERcE.

Great Iaer.a.s sf InamlEratisa-
MAsm NoToN. July ~. The bureau
of statistics Of the treasury department
has issued = summary statement and
review Of the foreign commerce and
immigration Of the United States dur
Ing the fiscal year ended June 80. 1891.
aud n comparison Of the imports and
exports Of the past nine months. during
which the new tariff law has been In
effect a. compared with the corre-
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 exceeded the total
value Of the commerce Of is9O by So.
iai, sos The commerce of 1890 was the
largest for any year in the history Of
the government mp to that time. ex-
ceeding the commerce of the prior year
by si5a. COG. 0d3 The total commerce
during the past fiscal year amounted TO
81, 729. $50. 500. During the year there
was an increase in imports Of merchan-
disc in the order Of magnitude, in the
following articles: Coffee. tin plates,
hides and skins fruits. chemicals and
drugs, India rubber and gutta percha,
sugar and molasses, etc. There has
/ been a decline In the value of imports
1 OF wool and manufactures thereof. silk
and manufactures thereof hemp and
I jute and manufactures thereof. bread
stuffs and animals
/ The total value of imports of mer-
ehandise during the last year was $751;
/ gO5. 49l. The total value of exports OF
merchandise during the same period
was sss4. 42l, O5s which shows an excess
4 in favor Of exports during the year Of
! ESQ, ,5l90i4 There was also an excess
OF exports Of domestic merchandise
over imports OF the prior year of s96, a4l,-
737. The increase in these exports has
been in the following articles stated in
order of magnitude of increase: Raw
cotton, provisions, refined sugar, cotton
manufactures, copper and manufact-
ures thereof iron aud steel and manu-.
factures thereof
The value OF the leading articles OF
export from the United States during
the past year was as follows: Cotton,
$500, 7Os, SOS; brcadstuffs, sla7, SOS, ,O99,
and provisions, sl3S 179, ,6Ss.
Since the new tariff law has been in
operation. from October 1890. to June
30, 1891, inclusive, the total value of the
imports of merchandise was $3.50, 206,-
OO5. as compared with s59s, 769, 9O5, the
value OF such imports for the corre-
n a,
excess for the nine months OF 1891 OF
S3i, 436, 100. The value OF the imports OF
merchandise admitted free OF duty dur
ing the nine months ended June 80, 1891,
was sos, ,g63. 655, while the value OF
such imports for the corresponding
period of 1890 was s2Os, 063, s13, showing
an increase in the imports of free
merchandise during the past nine
months of $50, 970,g7 During the same
period ended June 30, 1891, the imports
OF merchandise paying duty was of the
value of Si34, 242, $40, us compared with
$3.50. $50. 032 for the corresponding period
OF 1890, so that 1t appears there has
been decrease during the last nine
months of the fiscal year of 1891 in the
value of dutiable imports OF S5j, 543. 602.
at 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 80 90 per cent
came in free. while during the CORE
spending period of 1890 "a. D2 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,-
900 than the value of such merchandise
admitted during the whole of 1890, and
nearly $40, 900, 900 greater than during
the prior fiscal year ended June 10,
1889"
The exports of gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were sl0s 729 9Ss,
and the imports were $50, 2l2, 334, an eX.
cess of exports of s72 1868 The ex.
ports of gold during the last fiscal year
were $50, 363, 629. The imports of gold
were SIS, 24G, ,5l2, showing an excess OF
,, exports of gold of SOS, III, ll0-the
largest in any year.
There has been large increase In
the volume of immigration into the
United States during the last fsca
year. The total number arriving wa
555, 456 as against 45l, 2i9 during the fis
, cal year $780, showing an increase dur
ing the last fiscal year of lO4,9 ,977. Thi'
increase is largely from the following
countries: Italy, 23.354; Austria Hun
gary, 1861; Germany, 81, la2; Russia
including Poland, IS 245.