FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. IMPORTS-VALUES OF THE LEADING ARTICLES (Years end June 30). Coin and bullion, gold and silver......... 15,936,681 40,774,414 29.821,314 Coffee....... 56,788,997 53,634,991 51,914,605 Cotton, manufactures of.. 22,725,598 18.923,514 19,081,037 Gloves, kid and leather.. 3,739,061 3,128,919 India rubber and gutta percha, manufact's of.. 428.575 325,113 3,195,702 242,564 Iron, bar.... 1,563,819 1,515,691 1,541,115 Iron, pig... 1,918,547 1,556,415 1,250,057 Iron rails, iron and steel.. 820,020 1,464 530 Iron, scrap and old. 400.355 148.201 105,992 Lead, pigs, bars and old. 353,936 Leather, tanned, of all kinds. Sugar, unrefined. Tea.. Tin plates. Tin, manufactures of. Wine, in casks.. Wood, and manufactures of... Wool, uumanufactured. Wool, manufactures of. Total Value of Merchandise. Entered for Immediate Consumption. Fatered for Interior Ports.. rought in Cars and other Land Vehicles.. Brought in American Vessels.... Brought in Foreign Vessels... $131,181,555 $117,806,476 $181,774.507 50,038,691 143,135,738 10,235,843 11,435,628 3,996,881 4,589,713 8,784.729 6,764,119 69,642,368 19,524,166 16,181,467 15,660,168 10.005,799 9,759,327 9,929,498 58,498 2,084,385 1,889,871 1,838,891 4,307,660 8,247,617 7.156,944 8,247,617 83,208.808 25,698,300 25,230,134 Total Amount of Merchandise (mixed values) 694,917,715 632,980.854 FOREIGN GOODS AND SPECIE RE-EXPORTED FROM THE UNITED STATES. 695,724,514 525,582,247 589,670,224 680,683,798 *Includes hosiery, shirts and drawers, of value of $4,682,246 in 1878, $3,804,520 in 1877, and $4,682,871 in 1876. Made up thus: Gold bullion, $1,084,536; gold coir, $21,274,585; silver bullion, $11,483,894; silver coin, fractional, $620,147; trade dollars, $8,672,596. Made up thus: Gold bu lion, $205,319; gold coin. $5.420,351 silver bullion, $15,035,045; silver coin, fi actional, $228,264; trade dollars, $5,166,006. Total Declared Value of the Imports of Foreign Merchandise and Specie, and of the Exports of the Produce and Manufactures of the United States to each country, in the years ended June 30, 1877 and 1878. Total..... *$492.097,540 †$676.115.592 +$466,872,846'}$722,811,815 This includes $40,774,454 in specie. France and her possessions sent $2,815.960; Germany $526.120 Great Britain and her possessions, $23,385,958; Mexico, $10,240,319; Cuba. $1,870,904. This amount includes $43,134,738 in specie. China received $1,491,906; France, $2,135.450; Germany, $336,391; Great Britain and her possessions, $33,033,925; Japan, $1 289.584. This includes $29,821,314 in gold and silver coin and bullion. England sent $12,552008; Quebec and British Columbia, etc., $2,570.849; Mexico, $8.394,146; Cub 1, $1.983.830. This includes $27.061,865 in gold and silver coin and bullion, of which 87 857,506 went to China, $9,635,995 to England, and $5,343, 419 to Hong-Kong. Ordinary Revenues of the Government. For each fiscal year (endiug June 30) from each source since 1867. a Total $22,177,673 78 299,941,090 84b 188,093.522 70 163,103,833 69 284,020,771 41 883,738,493 36 268,594,8:0 04 257,446, 776 40 a Premiums received on sales of gold are excluded from this table, and premiums paid in purchase of bonds are excluded from the table of expenditures. b Includes $15,500,000 in gold awarded by the Geneva tribunal against Great Britain. Ordinary Expenditures of the Government. For each fiscul year (ending June 30) from each source since 1867. a a Premiums on purchase of bonds are excluded from this table, as premiums on sales of gold are ex cluded from the table of revenues. b Exclusive of award of $1,927,819 to British claimants. Nor-The expenditures for 1869, 1870. 1871, 1872, 1873, 1974, 1875 and 1876 have been analyzed at the Treasury Department, and the amounts paid directly on account of the rebellion were as follows: 1869... $199,623,662 24 | 1871... ...$199,745,220 93 | 1873... $157,262,415 81 | 1875........$147,882,034 75 1370...... 203, 197,851 69 1872. 173,212,234 39 1874........ 154,171,130 80 1876..... 140,919,679 23 * The unusually large payment of interest on the public debt during the fiscal year 1878 is accounted for by payments of interest which had accrued in former years, and by the fact that from July 1, 1877, to July 1, 1878, a large amount of 6 per cent bonds (interest payable January and July) were funded in bonda bearing 4 1-2 and 4 per cent interest, payable quarterly. Had the 6 per cent bonds not been converted, the Interest thereon from January, 1, 1878, to July 1, 1873, would not have been due and paid until after the beginning of the fiscal year 1879; but the quarterly interest on the 4 1-2 and 4 per bonds fell due and was paid during March and April of the fiscal year 1878, and thus caused au apparent increase of interest for the year. The interest falling due within the year was $93,735,461 63. Net Imports and Domestic Exports of Coia and Bullion. STATEMENT showing the Net Imports of Coin and Bullion into the United States. and the Domestic Exports of Coin and Bullion from the United States, from 1860 to 1878, inclusive. Total Exports of Agricultural Products. 1878. Statement showing the Value and Percentage of Agricultural Products (including Products of the Forest) Exported from the United States for each year from 1850 to 1878. Net imports means total imports, less imported coin and bullion afterward exported to foreign countries. t Excess of exports, $1,049,253. Values of the Principal Commodities of Domestic Production, the exportation of which greatly increased from June 30, 1868, to June 30, 1878. Net Imports and Domestic Exports of Merchandise. STATEMENT showing the Specie Value of the Net Imports of Merchandise into the United States, and of the Domestic Exports of Merchandise from the United States from 1860 to 1878, inclusive. Of the arrivals in 1878, 86,259 were males and 52,210 females. There were 38,082 from the British Isles, 29.313 from Germany, and 4,504 from Austria; 8,992 from China; 19,129 from Quebec and Ontario, and 4,081 from Nova Scotia: 4,159 from France; 4,131 from Italy: 5,290 from Sweden. 4,759 from Norway, and 2,105 from Denmark. Of the whole number, 1,510 had professional occupations, 16,532 skilled occupations, and 57,888 miscellaneous occupations; 61,884 without occupation, and 788 with occupations not stated-the last two classes being chiefly women and children. Entrances and Clearances of Vessels in the Foreign and Coastwise Trade for the year ending June 30, 1877 and 1878 respectively. Entered-American vessels... American vessels, tons. FOREIGN TRADE 1877. 10.660 3,663,403 1878. 10,594 3,642,417 * Net imports means total imports, less imported goods afterward exported to foreign countries. |