120 



COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



In the above imports there were $80,905,834 of dry 

 have been classified as follows : 



goods, which, during a series of years, 



IMPOETS OF DEY GOODS AT NEW TOEK. 





It will be seen from the foregoing statement 

 that there was a decrease of nearly eight mill- 

 ions from the amount of the previous year. 

 The decrease was principally in woollen goods, 



while in silk goods there has been an increased 

 importation. 



The receipts for duties at N&w York during 

 a series of years have been as follows : 



EECEIPTS FOE DUTIES AT NEW TOEK. 



The aggregate of foreign imports at New York 

 during a series of years has been as follows : 



FOBEIGN IMPOETS AT NEW TOEK. 



In the above table are included, under the 

 head of dutiable, the duty-paying goods entered 

 directly for consumption, as well as those en- 

 tered for warehousing; these, with the free 



goods and specie, make the total entered at the 

 port. The free list was greatly curtailed six 

 years ago, especially by the transfer of tea and 

 coffee to the list of dutiables, and thus the 

 total of free goods imported remains at about 

 eleven million dollars. All the figures refer- 

 ring to the imports represent only their foreign 

 gold cost, freight and duty unpaid. To show 

 the cost in currency to the consumers, the 

 total should be doubled, and the whole then 

 increased about forty per cent.; this would 

 represent about the selling rates in the 

 market. 



The exports from New York are a more im- 

 perfect representation of the trade of the 

 country than the imports. The exports from 

 the South have been large in each year since 

 the close of the war. California has also in 

 the last two years exported an unusual amount 

 of breadstuff's. The shipments of cotton from 

 the South direct to foreign countries, during 

 1867 and 1868 each, was about one million 

 bales, while the total amount of naval stores, 





