The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-07-01
UNITED STATES
FOREIGN COMMERCE
New Record Made In Foreign Com
merce of the United States in the
Fiscal Year, 1912.

The Foreign commerce Of the United
States made new and remarkable
record in the fiscal year just ended
The total value of the merchandise en-
tering and leaving the country in its
trade with foreign lands and its own
island possessions in the fiscal year
1912 was billion dollars; the value
/ of manufactures exported was more
than l billion dollars; and the value
of non-dutiable merchandise entering
the country was l billion dollars OF
this l billion dollars worth of non
dutiable merchandise entering the
country during the year ending June
&c. 1912, about 900 million dollars,
worth was from foreign merchandise
and 100 million dollars worth from
Hawaii and Porto Rico. OF the mer-
chandise coming from foreign countries
only (and not including that from
Hawaii and Porto Rico) 53.5 per cent
entered free of duty, against 44.3 per
cent during the entire period of the
Dingley law, 4S.S per cent under the
Wilson law and SO per cent under the
Mckinley law when the admission of
sugar free of duty made the percen-
tage of duty-free imports unusually
large, but not so high as that of the
year just ended. In fact, the value of
duty-free merchandise entering from
foreign countries in 1912 not only ex-
ceeds by far that of any earlier year,
but also forms larger share of the
total imports than in any previous
years except 1892 and 1894, the OPEN
ling and closing years of the operations
of the Mckinley law, when the inn
ports Of sugar free of duty were alb
normally large. Imports of duty-free
merchandise never reached as much
Jas 100 million dollars prior to 1873.
IThey touched the 200 million dollar
lime in 1880, the 800 million dollar line
in 1891, the 400 million dollar line in
1882, the 500 million dollar line in
1906, the 800 million dollar line in
1907, the 700 million dollar line in
1910, and in 1912 approximated 900
million dollars; and the addition of
the merchandise coming from our own
islands brings the grand total of non
ldutiable merchandise in the fiscal
year 1912 up to round l billion dol
lars.
The principal articles forming the
II billion dollars worth of dutyfree
merchandise entering continental
United States during the fiscal year
1912 ale, according to the latest re-
ports of the Bureau of Statistics of
the Department of Commerce and
Labor food stuffs and manufactures
materials. The food stuffs entering
without payment of duty included
about 100 million dollars worth of
coffee, approximately 80 million dol
liars worth of tea and cacao, over 20
million dollars worth of nuts, mil
lion dollars worth of spices, and
about 80 million dollars worth of SUI
gar from Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines. The manufacturers ma
terials entering free of duty included
approximately 100 million dollars
worth Of hides and skins; over 100
million dollars worth Of India rubber
! and substitutes therefor; about 65 mil
: lion dollars worth of raw silk; so mil
lion dollars worth of tin in bars,
blocks and pigs; 45 million dollars5
worth of copper in ore and pigs; 30
million dollars worth of fibers In
cIuding hemp, jute and sisal; and
about 20 million dollars worth of raw
cotton
OF the more than / billion dollars
worth of manufactures exported dur
ing the year, those of iron and steel
aggregated about 275 million dollars
in value; copper and mineral oils, each
more than 100 million; lumber and
other manufactures of wood, nearly
100 million; leather and manufactures
of wood, nearly 100 Million leather
and manufactures thereof, about &C
million. and cotton manufactures
about 80 million. Manufactures ex
ported in the month of May amounted
to 1OS million dollars for the single
month and formed 6S per cent of the
total domestic exports of that month
For the full fiscal year manufactures
formed about As per cent of the tota
domestic export During the -
months in which the present tariff law
has been in operation, manufactures
exported averaged rs million dollars
per month and formed As per cent o.
the total exports. During the entire
existence of the Dingley law they aver
,.r.d In ,n;fliap Raliarc YAr month anf