COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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In the year 1878 the principal classes of mer- 

 chandise entered in the following proportions 

 into the total value of the exports, which was 

 about 695 f million dollars: Breadstuff's, 26-12 

 per cent, of total exports ; raw cotton, 25'88; 

 provisions, 17'76; mineral oil, 6'69; tobacco, 

 4'09 ; wood and manufactures of wood, 2-41 ; 

 iron and steel and their manufactures, 2'28; 

 cotton manufactures, T64; leather and leather 

 manufactures, 1-16; tallow, - 96; live animals, 

 0-84; oil-cake, 0'73; sugar and molasses, 0*70 ; 

 ordnance stores, 0'69 ; drugs, chemicals, medi- 

 cines, and dye-stuffs, 0'41 ; vegetable oils, 0'41 ; 

 peltry, 0'38; agricultural implements, 0'37; 

 copper and manufactures of copper, 0*36 ; na- 



val stores, i. e., rosin, pitch, etc., 0'36 ; coal, 

 0-34 ; spirits of turpentine, 0'34 ; seeds, 0'33 ; 

 animal oil, 0'32 ; hops, 0'31 ; hemp and its man- 

 ufactures, 0'23 ; other metals and their manu- 

 factures, 0*22 ; carriages and cars, 0'22 ; fruits, 

 0'20; other unmanufactured articles, 1 '04; oth- 

 er manufactured articles, 2'22. 



The progress and fluctuations of American 

 trade with the countries with which it has the 

 most extended commercial intercourse are 

 shown in the annexed table, which gives the 

 value of the total imports from and exports to 

 America of each country for the alternate years 

 from 1865 to 1873, and the following successive 

 years to 1877, in millions of dollars : 



