Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-29
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
BALANCE OF TRADE IN FAVOR
OF THE UNITED STATES.
Fiscal Year-The Biggest Business
Uncle sam Has Ever Done.

WASHINGTON, July 2s-The bureau of
statistics of the treasury department to-day
issued a summary statement and review OF
the commerce aud immigration OF the
United State during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1891. 1t gives also a comparison OF
the imports and exports of the past nine
months, during which the new tariff law
has been in effect. IS compared with the
corresponding nine month"; 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 gov
eminent, and exceeded ne total value
of the commerce of 1890 by So, l9l, Si3. The
commerce of 1890 was the largest for any
year in the history of the government up 70
that time, exceeding the commerce OF the
previous year by the sum of Sl59, .063.
Our total commerce during the past fiscal
year amounts to 81, I29. $50, 500.
During the year there was an increase IN
our imports of merchandise in the follow
ing articles Coffee, tin plate, hides and
skins, fruits, chemicals and drugs, india
rubber and gutta percha, sugar and naolas-
ses. etc. There has been a decline in the
value OF our imports of wool and the
manufactures thereof, silk and the
manufactures thereof, hemp ard
jute and the manufactures thereof,
bread stuffs and animals The total value
of our imports of merchandise during last
year was SSH. 943 972. The total value Of
our exports Of merchandise during the
same period was 1854 .424 05s, which shows
an excess il favor of exports during the
fiscal year of S:j9.5l99li.
There was also an excess Of exports of
Domestic merchandise over such exports of
the prior year of S26, al, T39. The increase
in these Exports has been in the fOllOr ing,
with the ar ices stated III the order OF
magnitude of increase: Raw cotton, pro-
visions, refined sugar, cotton manufac-
lures, opper and'hg manufactures there
Of, and iron and steel aid the manufac-
lures thereof
The value Of leading articles OF export
from the United States during the past
wear was is follows Cotton. $3.50, i0S.9>9;
breadstuffs, 1927 SOS, G92: provisions, Sl3S,-
1I6.G3S.
Since the new tariff has been in
operation from October g, 1890, to
June 30, 1891, inclusive, the total
value of imports of merchandise
was $3.50, 2OG 005. as compared With 1888, 49,,
@D5 value Of such imports for the CORES
ponding period of 1890. which shows an
excess f0r the nine months OF 1921 of 3d.
At, 100.
The value of impor of merchandise adj
mi.ed free OF duty during the nine months
ended June 30, 1891, was S295, g43. Cos,
while the value of such imports for
the corresponding period of 1890 was
SOS. 963, S73, showing an increase in imports
of free merchandise during the past nine
months Of $50, 919.1Jl.
During the same period ended June 30
1851, the imports of merchandise paying
duty was of the value of S334 a42 $40, as
compared with 1899, 1S6, O32 for the CORE
spending period Of 1890 50 that it appears
there has been Il decrease during the last
nine months of the fiscal year of 1891 in the
value dutiable impo7,s of Sll5, .,i3. 6!';!
The exports of gold and silver during the
last fiscal year were SOS, 1S9,2SS and the
imports We're Sc, PIP, 33i, excess of exports
OF s12, 5I6. 9G4
The exports of gold during the last fiscal
year we're $50, }63, G22, the imports of gold
were $ls, 246 ,5l2 showing an excess Of ex-
ports of gold OF SIS, III, 40. / c largest eX-
cess Of exports Of gold in any one year of
our commerce.