Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-22
Exports Records Broken.
TIE PAST FISCAL YEAR THE
GREATEST IN AMERICAS
HISTORY.
The Total Over q Billion and Fifty
Mlllions-The Excess Over Imports
the Largest Silver
Movements Heavy-Im-
portations of
Sugar.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-The month
ly statement of the exports and i'm
ports Of the United States issued by
the bureau of statistics makes the re-
! markable showing that eve before
in the history of the country have the
exports of merchandise, which in
cludes practically all the exports
except gold and silver, reached 80
high a figure as during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1897, nor has the
excess of exports over imports ever
been so large. The only time these
figures were approached was in 1892,
when the United States was making
heavy shipments of grain to feed
Europe's suffering from a series of de-
ficient harvests.
The statement for 1897, with COM
PARSONS, is as follows: Exports OF
domestic merchandise, $1,032, 99s, $50;
increase over 1896 about ITO million
dollars; total exports Of domestic and
foreign merchandise, $1,o51, ss7 ,Os1, as
compared with 1885,, SOC, 1888 for 1896.
The total imports of merchandise dur
ing the fiscal year just closed amount
ed to $764, 373, 905, of which 1881, $780,
sos was free of duty. The total inn
ports were about Sic, 1866, 900 less than
last year, and the excess of exports
over imports for the year was $751;
613, 186. This is an excess of about 1856
million dollars over last year and an
excess of about % millions over any
previous year.
The exports of gold, including ores,
for the fiscal year 1897, amounted to
s40, 1855, $50, as compared with $112,-
4Os, s47 for 1896. The imports Of gold
amounted to ss5, 013 ,575, an increase
of about 51k million dollars over 1896.
The exports of silver during 1897
amounted to s61 ,946, 63s and the i'm
ports s2o,533,227. The excess of gold
imports over exports, therefore, was
%, 653, 795, and the excess of silver
exports over imports s31, All.
Never before has the silver move
ment, both export and import, reach
ed SO high a figure.
RECENT IMPoRTATIoNs OF SUGAR.
The records of the Treasury depart
ment show that the imports of sugar
during June, 1897, at the principal
sugar ports, Baltimore, Boston, Gal
weston, New Orleans, New York,
Philadelphia and San Francisco, at
which about go per cent of the whole
importation is made, amount to $685.
904, 103 pounds for all kinds, valued in
the foreign markets at s13, $3.50, 125.
The beet sugar below No. 16, Dutch
standard, aggregated 2e4, 165, 1852 lbs.
and the a n and others 35s, 81, 70s
pounds. Above No. 16, Dutch stand
ard, kinds not stated in Treasury re-
ports, imports were q, 7s1,656 pounds
The free importation of Hawaiian
sugars under the reciprocity treaty
amounted to 44,341,sS6 pounds, for.
eign market value $~1,27o,655. Com
pared with importations for May
there was a decrease of 90, 1874 1892 lbs
The sugar imports for June, 1896
amounted to 472, 6s7 1915 pounds, of the
foreign value of 81, 1880 For the
first six months of 1896 there were i'm.
ported 2,442, 615 1923 pounds, foreign
value $6o,262,77s and for the sfz
months of this year ended June 80
3,143,6 s7 ,769 pounds, of the foreign
value of $67, 7s5, 1911.