Commerce with Foreign Countries and Our Carrying Trade.

The total value of our exports to and imports from the United States, during the year 1885, aggregated $11,874,043, or 92.04 per cent. of the value of our foreign commerce. The value of our commerce with Great Britain was $486,023, or 3.76 per cent.; with Germany, $161,892, or 1.25 percent.; with China and Hongkong, $134,318. or 1.04 per cent.; with Australia and New Zealand, $85,984, or 0.67 per cent.; and with all other countries, $157,599, or 1.24 per cent.

Of the total value of goods transported in our foreign trade 89.05 per cent. was carried by American vessels, 5.68 per cent. in British vessels; German, 2.11 per cent.; 1.81 per cent. in Hawaiian; 1.25 per cent. Norwegian; and in vessels of all other nationalities, 0.10 per cent.