New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-17
STATISTICS CT FOREIGN COMMERCE..

LARGE AND GRATIFY1NG INCREASE REPORTED
Washington, July 1G.-The Chief Of the Bureau
Of Statistics In n statement to the Secretary OF the
Treasury Of the imports and exports Of the United
States says:
our foreign commerce of the last fiscal year, when
compared with that Of 5y1 and prior years. presents
a large and gratifying increase The totai value
Of our Imports and exports of merchahdise at'anhed
It's highest point. amounting to 1857 ,7269lO as
against 81 720 307 900 during the fiscal year 1891,
increase Of 1926 800 904 and an Increase Of 1870.
1913 $50 since 1879 The excess in value Of exports
over imports OF merchandise during the last fiscal
year S2O2, 944.343 The value OF our imports
Of merchandise during the last fiscal year amounted
to $780,. 39los4 as against Sa449l6l96 during the
fiscal year 1901, decrease OF Sl'o24,ol2 The
average annual value of imports for the years
from lcs2 to 1921 inclusive has been S112.1l1 $40.
1t viii thus be seen that imports for the fiscal year
1902 exceeded this average for the ten years BY the
sum Of SIlf070 GO6. There was an Increase In our
Imports OF merchandise In the following articles,
named in the order Of magnitude Of the increase
Coffee, silk manufactured and sugar and molasses
There was a decline In the value Of our imports OF
tin plates: silk manufactures Of WOOL manufactures
Of; tobacco, and manufactures Of vegetables fruits,
and textile grasses,
THE value OF imports OF merchandise admitted
free OF duty during the year ending June 30 1892,
was s5e .OOI .1ij: the value OF such Imports for the
spending period Of 1901 1856, 241 ,3j2 show
Ing Increase in favor Of 1902 Of $91 750 1913, while
for the period the value Of imports Of merchan-
disc paying duty was 1863 800 1885, compared with
547s,674,5 44 for the corresponding period of 1891,
showing u decrease in the value OF merchandise paying
duty imported during the last year Of $lO028i,705
The value OF our exports Of merchandise during the
fiscal year 1892 81 O30 33j ,626, as against
t5oi45O,s1O during the fiscal 1891, IN increase
ov $li5 516. The value Of our exports Of domestic
merchandise was IN 1892, 81 Ol5 1S0,6O7, and was
tho first year Of commerce when domestic
exports Of merchandise attained to 81 000O00,00O.
The value of our exports Of foreign merchandise
S14 54GO1o.
During the last fiscal year the value Of our ex-
ports OF domestic merchandise was 324 in ex
OF the value OF snch exports during the preceding
fiscal year. There large increase In the exports
OF breadstus, and small increase In the value Of
exports Of fruits seeds, copper and manufactures
o. animals and oil cake. There was a decrease In the
value OF exports Of cotton mineral Oil refined sugar
and provisions. During each u the years from 1876
IL 1887 inclusive, there excess OF exports
Imports OF merchandise, the yearly for
that period being 1874 37s,313, and amounting In
1851 10 S250.7I27l5. During the fiscal year 1873
the value Of imports VI merchandise exceeded that Of
exports So 500 during the value Of Imports
Of merchandise exceeded that OF exports S2730 OF
but the fiscal year $50 shows marked change. and
again excess OF exports over imports OF in'rchahule
amounting to 5Gs,516.275 during the fiscal 1891
an Of exports OF S3o,jGi GA. and during tho
last fiscal year to the large excess of s2O294i342
The value Of exports Of cotton in s92
amounted u S25s.447.741 and owing to the fall I'm
prices was 322G5.l57 less than during the year
1891, In which the largest value Of annual eX-
ports OF this product In the history of our commerce"
The quantity OF the exports OF this rduct last year
was however 2,934.7l0,3ll pounds. and the largest
shipped out OF the country In any one fiscal year In
la NJ
in the value u ports II provisions but large
Increase IN the value of exports OF brcadstuhs Of
s173. 7O6045 such Nports In l-0l also AN In
In the value Of cattle sheep and hogs Of - sol
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