Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-29
TREASURY STATISTICS.
Figures Showing the Commerce and
Immigration of the Country.

Figures Showing the Commerce and
emigration Of the Country.
WAsHINGToN, July 2S.-The bureau of
statistics of the treasury department has
issued review of the foreign commerce
and immigration of the United States
during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1891. 1t gives also comparison Of the
imports and exports of the past
nine months during which the
new tariff law has been in effect
az compared with the corresponding
nine months of the preceding fiscal
year.
The total commerce of the past fiscal
year was the greatest in the history OF
the government, and exceed the total
value of the commerce of 1890 by
$82, ,191, 1903. The commerce OF
1890 was the largest for any
year in the history of the government
up to that time, exceeding the commerce
of prior year by $3.50, 9,606,063. Our
total commerce during the past fiscal
year amounted to 81, ,729 1880, 1906.
During the year there was an increase
of our imports of merchandise in the
order of their magnitude. in the follow
ing articles: Coffee, tin plates,
hides and skins, fruits, chemi-
calls and drugs, india rubber and
gutta percha, sugar and molasses, etc.
There has been decline in the value of
our imports of wool and manufactures
thereof, silk and manufactures thereof,
hemp and jute and manufactures
thereof, breadstuff and animals.
The total value OF the exports of mer-
chandise was $8S4, ,425 ,405. which shows
an excess in favor of exports during the
fiscal year of $39,919,9l4. There was
was also an excess of exports
of domestic merchandise over such
exports the prior year OF $26,94l ,737.
The increase in exports has been in the
following articles, stated in the order of
their magnitude of increase: raw cot
ton, provisions, refined sugar, cotton
manufactures, copper and manufactures
thereof, iron and steel and manufactures
| thereof
The value of the leading articles ex-
ported from the United States during
the past year were as follows; Cotton,
1920, 708, 1893; breadstuffs, 1927 1868, ,092
provisions, $138, 176, ,638.
Since the new tariff has been in opera
ton from October 6, 1890, to June 80,
1891, inclusive, the total value of ex-
ports of merchandise was $3.50, ,206 ,005,
as compared with $59S, 1885, ,905 for the
corresponding period OF 80, which
shows an excess for nine months, oi
| $31 ,436, 100.
The value of the imports OF merchan-
disc admitted free during the nine
months ended June 80, 1891, was $685.
1858, 1865, while the value OF such i'm
ports for the corresponding period of '9C
was $20s, ,9SS, 1878, showing an increase in
imports free, during the past nine
months, of $86, ,979, ,792. During the
same period ended June 80, 1891
the imports of merchandise pay.
ing duty was of the value of 1894,
242, $40, as compared with $3.50, ,786, ,031
for the corresponding period of 80. Sc
it appears that there has been a de-
crease the last nine months, in the
value of dutiable imports of sos, ,543 1892
During the nine months since the new
tariff went into effect, Of the total value
of the merchandise imported into ths
country 46.96 per cent. came ir
free,r while during the cores
ponding period OF 80 1892 per cent.
was admitted free. 1t appears that the
value of the merchandise imported free
during the last nine months of the fisca
year was greater by $50, 900, 900 than tht
value of such merchandise admitted
during the whole of 80, and nearly
$40.000,00O greater than during the