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28 STATISTICS OF THE AMERICAN IRON TRADE FOR 1894.<br />
IMPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL.<br />
The following table gives the foreign values of all our imports<br />
of irou and steel, including fire-arms, hardware, cutlery, anvils,<br />
chains, machinery, etc., in the calendar years from 1871 to 1894.<br />
The total foreign value of our imports of these articles iu these<br />
twenty-four years was SI,027,840,350. The table has been compiled<br />
by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department.<br />
1S72<br />
1874<br />
1876<br />
1S78<br />
Year..<br />
Values.<br />
857,866,299 j<br />
75,617,677<br />
60,005,538<br />
37,652,192<br />
27,363.101<br />
20.016,603<br />
19.874,399<br />
18,013.010<br />
1879<br />
1880<br />
1881<br />
1882<br />
1883<br />
1884<br />
1885<br />
1886<br />
Year*.<br />
Values.<br />
833,331,569<br />
80,443,362<br />
61,555,077<br />
67,075,125<br />
47,506,306<br />
37,078,122<br />
31,144,552<br />
41.630,779<br />
1887<br />
1888<br />
18S9<br />
1S90<br />
1S91<br />
1892<br />
1893<br />
1894<br />
Years.<br />
Value*.<br />
$56,420,607<br />
42,311,689<br />
42,027,742<br />
44.540,413<br />
41,983,626<br />
33,882,447<br />
29,656,539<br />
20,843.576<br />
The following table, also compiled for these pages by the Bureau<br />
of Statistics of the Treasury Department, gives in detail<br />
the quantities and values of our imports of iron and steel and<br />
manufactures thereof in the calendar years 1893 and 1894.<br />
Articles-Grow ton*.<br />
T..:i-. Vnl\i«,<br />
T.iiis.<br />
Values.<br />
Pig iron<br />
54,394 $1,224,347 15,582 J407.63S<br />
Scrap iron and scrap steel I 6,273 97,552 2,380 43,710<br />
Bar iron<br />
14,890 | 603,985 9,228 377,397<br />
Iron and steel rails<br />
2,888 57,584 300 4,292<br />
Cotton-ties, hoops, etc<br />
1,697 78,325 60 3,272<br />
Hoop, band, and scroll iron or steel.. 1.017 65.111 805 51,111<br />
Steel ingots, billets, blooms, slab*, etc. 26,868 1,293.834 9,494 809,184<br />
Sheet, plate, and taggers' iron or steel 37,321 1,746,035 28,795 1,197,671<br />
Tinplates<br />
253,155 15,559,423 215,068 12,053,167<br />
Wire rods, of iron or steel<br />
34,885 1,387,066 22,603 923,675<br />
Wire and wire rope, of iron or steel.. 4,146 588,817 4,288! 514,484<br />
Auvils<br />
83,617 406! 57,614<br />
Chains<br />
48.753 291 35,910<br />
Cutlery<br />
1,246,783<br />
1,220,707<br />
Files, file blanks, rasps, aud Boats.-<br />
59,752<br />
49,413<br />
Fire-arms<br />
141.123<br />
294,230<br />
Machinery<br />
2,513,026<br />
1,189,965<br />
Needles<br />
309,674<br />
286.655<br />
All other Tvtal. 438,495 $29,656,539 2,551,732 309.290 S20.843.576 1,323,481
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