Year: 1860

The annual report of the foreign commerce OF the
United States for the year 1852 transmitted to the
Senate By the Secretary OF State on Monday ne IT,
port is valuable document, containing generai stae-
ment, compiled from diplomatic and consular oesPatcnes
received during the year the Department OF State OF
the navigation and commerce OF the Unlhd otates
throughout the world the commercial legislation o.
foreign countries applicable to American exports tari
charges prohibitions and restrictions navigation and
port dues and much other general information that will
enIgbten the legislature and benefit those engaged in
agriculture mechanical and mercantile pursuits
Below we give the letter of the Secretary:


DEPARTMENT OF STATE, February 2, 1860.


Sir-In compliance with the acts of August 16,
1872 and August lS, 1856, have the honor to COM
municae herewith report of the commercial relations
of the United States with foreign nations for the year
ending September 30, 1859.


The report is divided into two parts


Part embraces in substance the dispatches on COM
merca subjects received at the Department during the
year from diplomatic and consular agents OF the govern
ment abroad as well the information contained ID
the official publications OF other governments which has
been deemed sufficiently important to the commercial
interests of the country


During the last session of Congress joint resolution
was adopted having for its object the removal or modl
caton of the heavy duties to which American tobacco
is subjected in most of the countries in which that lead
ing staple seeks market In pursuance OF this JOINT
resolution proper instructions at once transmitted
to the diplomatic and consular officers OF the Omteo
States.


The special consular dispatches which have been re-
ceved at the Department in reply to these Instructions
numbering in all nearly fifty, incorporated In this
part of the report and will be found to contain much
valuable information the subject of the tobacco trade
of the United States in the various markets OF the world
The present legislation of the different Governments OF
Europe Asia, and South America in reference to the
importation of tobacco their tariffs and monopoly reg
ulations their aggregate and per capita consumption
of the article together with the laws regulating its pro-
ducton or affecting directly indirectly its price to
the consumer presented in these dispatches with
much eabOrateness of detail and in form at once sue
cinct and comprehensive.


Part H. of the report is devoted to the Navigation
and Commerce of the United States in those ports where
there are Consus Commercial Agents of the Govern
ment This part of the report is presented In tabular
form and is compiled from the quarterly returns regu-
lary transmitted to the Department by those officers
With but few exceptions these tables will be found COM
pete for the entire year, thus exhibiting at glance the
number and tonnage, the ports whence American YES
sells have proceeded and their inward and outward car
gos.


Although returns from one or two important ports
have unavoidably been omitted, these omissions have
been supplied far it was possible to do so, in Part
L. from official publications and custom house reports
ceved during the year.


| have the honor to be, sir,


Your obedient servant,


LEWIS CASS.