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COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Exports. The values of the principal articles 

 of domestic merchandise exported during the 

 two years ended June 30, 1886 and 1887, were 

 as follow : 



The values enumerated in the above table 

 constituted 91-6 per cent, of the total value of 

 domestic exports for 1887, and 91 '2 per cent, 

 of the total value for 1886. 



The values of exports of domestic merchan- 

 dise during the year ended June 30, 1887, 

 classified according to sources of production 

 and the proportion of the total value repre- 

 sented by each group, were as follow : 



778,055 in 1886 ; the value of merchandise 

 free of duty, $233,093,659, as compared with 

 $211,530,759. The amount of ordinary reve- 

 nue collected on imports in 1887 was $212.- 

 032,424, of which 61 '3 per cent, was collected 

 under specific, and 38'7 per cent, under ad- 

 valorem rates. In 1886, on dutiable imports 

 amounting to $413,778,055, the amount col- 

 lected was $188,533,171, of which 60'5 per 

 cent, represents specific, and 39'5 per cent, 

 ad-valorem duties. In 1883, just before the 

 change in the tariff, the dutiable merchandise 

 taken out of bond amounted to $493,916,384, 

 on which duties were collected to the amount 

 of $209,650,699, of which specific duties formed 

 56, and ad-valorem duties 44 per cent. The 

 increase of $23,653,627 in the amount of ordi- 

 nary customs revenue in 1887 over 1886 took 

 place in the following classes of imports : 



The articles of domestic product in which 

 there has been a material increase in the values 

 exported in 1887, and the amount of the in- 

 crease in each, were as follow : 



EXPORTS. Increase. 



Wheat $40, -153.76(1 



Wheat flour 13,507. 127 



Pork and meat products, except beef products .. 6,135,297 



Leather, and manufactures of ],69S.456 



Furs and fur-skins 1,436,175 



Cotton, unmanufactured 1,136,415 



The exports which show a material falling 

 off in the values exported were the following: 



EXPORTS. Decrease. 



Corn $12,833.561 



Mineral oils 3,374,929 



Beef products 2.988,053 



Spirits, distilled 1,944.411 



Oats 1.765,138 



Hops 1,659,518 



Copper-ore .' 1.374,955 



Tobacco, and manufactures of 1, 194/236 



Fire-arms 1,114.407 



Dairy products 1,039,164 



Imports entered for Consumption. The total 

 value of imported merchandise entered for 

 consumption in 1886-'87 was $083,418,981, 

 exceeding the total of the preceding fiscal year 

 by $58,110,167, or 9 "3 per cent. The value of 

 dutiable merchandise entered for consumption 

 was $450,325,322, as compared with $413,- 



The increase of $58,110,167 in the total 

 value of merchandise entered for consumption 

 was principally in the following articles : 



