St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-29
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.
Statistics of Commerce With
Other Countries and Com
parsons.
Great Increase in Value Of
Merchandise That Came
in Free.
A Treasury Decision on a Pc
culiar Question as to
Duties.
Commissioner Morgan Is Re-
ceiving Congratulations
on His Work.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The bureau
of statistics of the treasury department
to-day issued its statement Of foreign
commerce and immigration for the
month of June, 1891. In this stStement
there is also review of the commerce
of the United States for the fiscal year
which ended June so. 1891. There is
much valuable information in the state
ment, as it covers not only our trade
with other nations during the twelve
months, but gives also 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 corresponding nine months of the
prior year. 1t will appear that there
has been gratifying increase for the
last fiscal year when compared with that
of 1890. The total value of the COM
merce of the past fiscal year was the
greatest in the history of the govern
ment. and exceeded the total value of
the commerce of 1890 by tine sum of
$50, 1911. S03.
The commerce of 1890 was the largest
for any year in the history of the gov
eminent up to the present time. Our
total commerce during the past fiscal
year amounted to S1,729, $50, 500. 1t is
noted that there is an increase in our
imports of merchandise, in the order Of
magnitude. in the following articles:
Coffee, tin plates, hides and skins;
fruits, chemicals and drugs; India rub
Der and gutta percha; sugar and mo-
laSSeS, etc. There has been decline
in the value of our imports of wool and
manufactures of silk and manufactures
of hemp and jute and manufactures of
breadStutfS and animals. The total
value of our imports of merchandise
during the last year was SS54. 905, 491.
The total value of our exports of mer
chandise during the same period was
1854, 425. 405, which shows an excess in
favor of exports during the fiscal year
of S39,5l9,9l4. There was, also. an eX-
cess of exports of domestic merchandise
over such exports of the prior year of
S26, 941, 737. The increase in these eX-
ports has been in the following articles,
stated in order of magnitude of in
crease: Raw cotton, provisions, refined
sugar, cotton manufactures; copper
and manufactures of iron and steel.
The value of the leading articles of
export from the United States during
the past year was as follows: Cotton,
1920, 70S, sos; breadstuffs, Sl27,66S, 092;
provisions, S13S. 176, 63S. Since the new
tariff law has been in operation, from
Oct. 6, 1890, to June so, 1891, inclusive,
the total value of the imports of mer-
chandiSe was $500, 20G, 005, as compared
with $59S, 100, 905, the value of such I'M
ports for the corresponding period of
1890. which shows an excess for the
nine months of 1891 of 81, 436, 100.
The value of the imports of merchan-
disc admitted free of duty during the
nine months ended June 80, 1891, was
1926, 963, 665, while the value of such
imports for the corresponding period of
1890 was sos, 9S3, S73, showing an in
crease in the imports of merchandise
during the past nine months of $S6,979,-
1872. During the same period ended
June so, 1891. the imports of merchan-
disc were of the value of 1884, 242, $40. as
compared with $3.50, 1856 032 for the cor
responding period of 1890, so that it
appears there has been a decrease dur
ing the last nine months of the fiscal
year of 1891 in the value of dutiable i'm
ports S55, 543, 692.
at will be seen, them" says the state
ment, THAT during the nine months
since the new tariff went into effect, of
the total value of merchandise imported
into this country 1896 per cent came in
free, while during the corresponding
period of 1890. 1892 per cent was ad-
miUJ6u ltSc. In TACT, III appears Indu
the value Of merchandise imported free
during the last nine months of the past
fiscal year was greater by 100000
than the value of such merchandise adj
mitted during the whole of 1890, and
nearly S4O,0OO,0OO greater than during
the prior fiscal year ended June 80,
1882"
The exports of gold and silver during
the last fiscal year were sos, 729. 2SS, and
the imports were $50. 2l2, 1874. an excess
of exports of S72.5l6,954. The exports
of gold during the last fiscal year were
$50, 1868, 622. The imports of gold were
SIS, 246, 52I, showing an excess of eX-
ports of gold of SOS, III, ITO. the largest
excess of exports of gold Ill any year of
our commerce.
There has been large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year. The
total number arriving was 800, 456, as
against 451,219 during the fiscal year
1890, showing an increase during the
last fiscal year of 104,277. This in
crease is largely from the following
countries: Italy, 23,354; Austria-Hun-
gary, 1851; Germany, 1,122; Russia,
including Poland, 2S,245.