The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85
Commerce with Foreign Countries and Our Carrying Trade
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.