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COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



ENTERED FOB WAREHOUSING. 



Twelve months ending September 30, 1871. 



American 



Foreign , 



Total . . . 



10,779 



18,854 



3,556,452 

 5,569,863 



9,126,315 



9,001,481 



Full comparative tables of commerce at the 

 port of New York for the year 1871 are given 

 by the Journal of Commerce. The total im- 

 ports for the year are almost $385,000,000 a 

 larger sum by $70,000,000 than ever before 

 landed here in a single year. The following 

 is a statement of the relative totals of these 

 imports for the last ten years : 



Under dutiable are included goods entered 

 directly for consumption, and the total entered 

 for -warehousing. The specie and bullion came 

 mostly in transit to foreign ports, and the 

 greater part of it is again included in the ex- 

 ports. 



In the subjoined tables of monthly summa- 

 ries for four years, the first shows the total 

 dutiable entered each month directly for con- 

 sumption ; the second the monthly entries for 

 warehousing; the third the free goods thrown 

 directly on the market ; the fourth the specie ; 

 and the fifth the total monthly entries of all 

 kinds : 



Foreign, Imports entered at New York during the 

 Years 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1871. ' 



ENTERED FOR CONSUMPTION. 



FREE GOODS. 



TOTAL IMPORTS. 



Notwithstanding the enormous increase in 

 imports, the profits on the year's business have 

 been larger than for several years previous, 

 prices having fluctuated less, and the gold mar- 

 ket having been subject to less violent changes. 

 The total monthly entries at all the bonded 

 warehouses are given above at $142,348,150; 

 the total withdrawals, as per annexed table, 



