The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-07-01
And Remarkable Growth i
Shown by United States
at Various Ports.

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WASHINGTON. July THE for
eign commerce of the United States
made q new and remarkable record
In the fiscal year just ended. The to-
tai value of the merchandise entering
and leaving the country in Its trade
with foreign lands and its own island
possessions in the fiscal year 1912
was four million dollars; the value OF
manufactures exported was more than
million dollars; and the value Of
non-dutIable merchandise entering
the country was million dollars.
OF this billion dollars worth CT
non-dutiable nerchandisa entering
the country during the year ending
June 30. 1912, about 900 million
dollars worth was from foreign eoun
tries, and 100 million dollars worth
from Hawaii and Porto Rico. OF the
merchandise coming from foreign,
countries only (and not including thai
| from Hawaii and Porto Rico) 53.5
per cent entered free Of -dqtM against
$40 per cent during the entire period
OF the DINGHY law, 4S.S per cent un-
der the Wilson law, and SO per cent
under the Mckinley law when the
admission OF sugar free of duty made
the percentage 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
1922 not only exceeds by far that
OF any other earlier year, but also
forms a larger share of the. Total, an
ports than in any previous years ex-
cept 1892 and 1894, the opening and
/ closing years of the operations of the
Mckinley law. when the Imports of
sugar free OF duty were aIbnormally
large. Imports of duty-free merchan-
disc never reached as much as 100
million dollars prior to 1873. They
touched the 200 million dollar mark
in 1880, the 800 million dollar line
in 1891. the 400 million dollar line in
1882, the 500 million dollar line in
1906 the 500 million dollar line in
1907, the 700 million dollar line in
1910, and in 1912 appropriated 800
million dollars; and the addition of
the merchandise coming from our
own islands brings the grand total
4 Of non-dutSaible merchandise in the
fiscal year 1912 UP to round bill
lion dollars.
The principal articles forming the
/ billion dollars worth Of duty-free
merchandise entering continental
United States during the fiscal year
1912 are. according to the latest re-
ports of the Bureau OF Statistics of
the Department OF Commerce. and
Labor, food stufEs and manufacturers
materials. The food SUITS entering
without payment of duty included
about 1920 million dollars worth of
COFFEE, approxtmately S5 million dol
lars worth OF tea and cacao, over. 20
Snillion dollars worth OF fruits and
nuts, million dollars worth of
spices, and about 80 million dollars
worth Of sugar from Porto Rico,
Hawaii, and the philippines. The
manufacturers materials entering
free Of duty Included approximately
100 million dollars, worth Of hidesl
and skins: over 100 million dollars
worth Of India rubber and substituted
therefor; about e5 miIIino dollars
worth Of raw silk; so million dollars
worth OF tin In bars, blocks and pigs;
Is million dollars worth of copper
in ore and pigs; 30 million dollars
worth OF fbbers. including hemp, jute
and sisal; and about 20 million dol
lars worth of raw cotton.
OF the more than billion dollars