Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-07-04
new RECORD FOR
FOREIGN TRADE
or UNCLE SAM
-Four Billions Total Value Of
Merchandise EntCving and
Leavig Country in com-
merOe With Other Lands.

Especial cervespsnaanes a. snu alaraIal
Washington. D. G.. June ao.--'rhe
foreign commerce Of the United
States made now and renarkabIe
record Ia tho fiscal year Just ended,
The total value Of the merchandise
entering ana leaving the country IN
its trade with foreign lands ana ita
own island possessions IN the fiscal
year lel2 was four billion dollars;
the value Of manufactures exported
was more than ono billion dollars;
|nhd The value OF non-dutlabio mer-
chandiee entering the country wua
one billion dollarn. OF this one biI-
lion dollars w0t,h OF nOn-dutinble
merchandise entering tho country
during the year ending June 80. 1919,
about 300 million dollars worth was
from foreign countries nnds orr hum
dred million dollars worth from Ha-
wall and Porto Rico. Of the mer-
chandiSe coming from foreign coun-
tries only (and not including that
from Hawaii and Porto Rlcol 58.B
per cent entered free of duty against
4f.s per cent during the entire peFiod
Iof the Dlngley law, ts per cent under
the Wilson law, ana 90 per cent nn-
der the MCKINLEY law when the adj
mission Of sugar free Of duty made
tho percentage Of duty-froe Imports
unusually large, but not SO high as
that of the year jnst ended, IN fact
the value " 0uty-freo merchandise
rnserinE from foreign countries IN
1912 not only exooaaH ny Gar that OF
any earlier year but also forms
larger chars OF the total imports
than In any previous yoaFa except
isaa and 1894, the opening and clos
Ing years 81 the operations OF the
Mckinley law. when tho imports OF
sugar free Of dgty we're ahnormally
large. Imports OF gfuty-freo mer.
nhAndise nover reached AZ much as
400 million dSIlarn prior Ia 1878.
They touched thc two hundred mill
lion dollar limo IN 1850. the three
hundred million dollar line IN 1891.
the four hundred million dollar line
% 1899, the Use hundred mHason
dollar line IN 1905. the gix hundred
million dollar llne IN 1907. tho sew
en- million dollar line III 1910. and IN
1919 npproKimated nine hundred mil
lien dollars; and the addition % the
fnefchnndlao SslninH from our own
islands brings The grand total az il0ns
dutiable merchandise ~ the fiscal
year 1912 up 20 a round one billion
Goliarn,
Tho principal articles forming the
one billion dG;lars' worth of duty
FREQ merchTndlse entering cnntinen-
tal United States during ghs fiscal
year 1919 are, according 60 the la
test reports Of the bureau of statistics
OF the department o. commerce ana
labor. food sfuffs and manufacturers
materials. The food stuffa end wing
without payment Of duty included
about one hundred and twenty lniie
lion dollars worth Of coffee, aprsox-
lmntely thirly.fige million dolih;F
worth 0f tea and oOcRO. over twenty
million dollars worth 81 fruits ana
nutR five milton dollars worth Of
spikes and about ninety million dol
lara worth 81 sugar from Porto Rico,
tnwail and the Philippines. The
manufacturers materials entering
free Of duty lncludcd approximately
uno hundred million collars worth Of
hides and skins, over one hundred
f9tlllon dollars. worth OF India run
bar and substitutes therefor; about
alsiy-flye million dollars worth OF
raw tllki fifty MILTON dollars worth
uf tn ~ bars. blocks ana pigs; forty
five million dollars worth OF copper
~ ore aud pln1 lhlflV million dollars
worth Of llbeIH iku'pding hemp. 5utc
and alsa'i ana about twenty million
aoiaYe worth ~ raw cotton
NJ the moFh than ono bIlllon dol
lars worth az mknHlaogufcu exported
dNFlnN the year lIrNe 81 lron and
aifpI aggravated about two hundred
and tegentS.fsYt ||lfon dollars mi
Fa|aaI topptf aHH M|Hsfnl oils. each
more than ans huhdrca mllllOni
|Hnpeg ana ollId mnnufacfuen of
wood NEARLY NN hundred million
'01ia1I ana niaQAIdmnfeo lhe-sol.
abnul SIXTY l|||tn ana oallnn
m8nnIaeturea taN f|lit milton
f0NIaoiurea Rap1fed n me month
81 =7 amounted a ems hundred ana