UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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The total value of imports from the United 

 Kingdom was $159,582,401, of which $52,804,130 

 were free and $106,778,271 dutiable. The total 

 from the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland 

 was $39,931,833, of which $12,431,242 were free and 

 $27,500,591 dutiable. Of the total imports, 51.84 

 per cent, came from Europe, 15.30 per cent, from 

 North America, 11.02 per cent, from South Amer- 

 ica, 16.45 per cent, from Asia, 4.07 per cent, from 

 Oceania, and 1.32 per cent, from Africa. 



The imports into the United States from Cuba, 

 Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippine and Sa- 

 moan Islands for the year ending June 30, 1900, 

 amounted to over $60,000,000, of which over 

 $40,000,000 were for sugar and molasses, $10,000,- 

 000 for tobacco, $5,000.000 for vegetable fibers, 

 $1,000,000 for iron, copper, and manganese, and 

 $4.000,000 for miscellaneous products, including 

 coifee, cacao, sponges, tropical fruits, vegetables, 

 hides and skins, and cabinet woods. One third 

 of the sugar imports came from these dependencies. 

 The imports from Cuba, according to the pro- 

 visional reports, were sugar of the value of $16,- 

 022,983; unmanufactured tobacco, $7,298,946; mo- 

 lasses, $437,776; iron ore, $737,287; cabinet woods, 

 $348,504; fruit, $261,109: copper, $248,028: man- 

 ganese ore, $246,148; cacao, $164,570; sponges, 



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$105,297; vegetables, $41,919; bones, horns, and 

 hoofs, .$.'57,212 : vegetable fibers, $36,755; scrap iron, 

 $32,221; hides and skins, $27,030; coffee, $2,141. 

 The imports from Porto Rico were sugar of the 

 value of $1,403,699; molasses, $197,837; tobacco, 

 $181,147; coffee, $9,859; hides and skins, $8,595; 

 fruit, $2,026; tobacco, $4,632; cabinet woods, 

 $452; cacao, $154; other products, $100. The im- 

 ports from the Philippines were Manila hemp of 

 the value of $4,286,359; sugar, $925,335: scrap 

 iron, $1,354; tobacco, $833; fruit, $40. The im- 

 ports from Hawaii were sugar of the value of 

 $19,055,874; coffee, $64,386; hides and skins, $63,- 

 335; fruit, $34,274; vegetables, $29,306; scrap iron, 

 $500; tobacco, $26. 



The values of the merchandise exports to differ- 

 ent countries in the year 1900 are given in the 

 table below. 



The exports to the United Kingdom amounted 

 to $533,819,545, the exports of domestic mer- 

 chandise being $527,784,340 and of foreign mer- 

 chandise $6,035,205. The exports to British North 

 America as a whole were $97,337,494, of which 



