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28 STATISTICS OF THE AMERICAN IRON TRADE FOR 1894. IMPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL. The following table gives the foreign values of all our imports of irou and steel, including fire-arms, hardware, cutlery, anvils, chains, machinery, etc., in the calendar years from 1871 to 1894. The total foreign value of our imports of these articles iu these twenty-four years was SI,027,840,350. The table has been compiled by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. 1S72 1874 1876 1S78 Year.. Values. 857,866,299 j 75,617,677 60,005,538 37,652,192 27,363.101 20.016,603 19.874,399 18,013.010 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 Year*. Values. 833,331,569 80,443,362 61,555,077 67,075,125 47,506,306 37,078,122 31,144,552 41.630,779 1887 1888 18S9 1S90 1S91 1892 1893 1894 Years. Value*. $56,420,607 42,311,689 42,027,742 44.540,413 41,983,626 33,882,447 29,656,539 20,843.576 The following table, also compiled for these pages by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, gives in detail the quantities and values of our imports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof in the calendar years 1893 and 1894. Articles-Grow ton*. T..:i-. Vnl\i«, T.iiis. Values. Pig iron 54,394 $1,224,347 15,582 J407.63S Scrap iron and scrap steel I 6,273 97,552 2,380 43,710 Bar iron 14,890 | 603,985 9,228 377,397 Iron and steel rails 2,888 57,584 300 4,292 Cotton-ties, hoops, etc 1,697 78,325 60 3,272 Hoop, band, and scroll iron or steel.. 1.017 65.111 805 51,111 Steel ingots, billets, blooms, slab*, etc. 26,868 1,293.834 9,494 809,184 Sheet, plate, and taggers' iron or steel 37,321 1,746,035 28,795 1,197,671 Tinplates 253,155 15,559,423 215,068 12,053,167 Wire rods, of iron or steel 34,885 1,387,066 22,603 923,675 Wire and wire rope, of iron or steel.. 4,146 588,817 4,288! 514,484 Auvils 83,617 406! 57,614 Chains 48.753 291 35,910 Cutlery 1,246,783 1,220,707 Files, file blanks, rasps, aud Boats.- 59,752 49,413 Fire-arms 141.123 294,230 Machinery 2,513,026 1,189,965 Needles 309,674 286.655 All other Tvtal. 438,495 $29,656,539 2,551,732 309.290 S20.843.576 1,323,481
STATISTICS OF THE AMERICAN IRON TRADE FOR 1894. 29 During each of the last six jean our imports of tinplntes have represented more than one-half of the total value of our imports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof. The following table gives in gross tons the quantities of our imports from 1880 to 1894 of the articles named in the above tabic which have been weighed, and which articles have been uniformly classified from year to year. The weight of machinery, hardware, cutlery, fire-arms, and similar products is not included. 1880. 1SS1. 1882. 1883. 1884. Years. (iH IV, 1..I1- 1,886,019 1,180,749 1,192,296 694,330 654,696 Years. Gross lorn. 1885 ' 578,478 1886 ; 1,098,565 1887 1,783,256 1888 914,940 748,550 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 Years. Gross ton*. 665,771 557,882 494,468 438,495 309.290 Of the pig iron imported in 1893 and 1894 and immediately preceding years much the larger part was spiegeleisen and ferromanganese, which pay duly as pig iron. The quantity of these articles entered at custom houses for consumption in the United States amounted to 101,167 gross tons in 1890, 41,449 tons in 1891, 47,310 tons in 1892, 37,199 tons in 1893, and 9,722 tons in 1894. There were also imported as pig iron 158 tons of ferro-silicon in 1892, 154 tons in 1893, and 228-j tons in 1894. EXPORTS OF IRON AND STEEL. The following table, compiled for us by the Bureau of Statistics, shows the total value of our exports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof in the calendar years from 1871 to 1894. These exports embrace chiefly machinery, builders' hardware, sewing machines, saws and tools, locomotives, fire-arms, scales and balances, pig iron, steel rails, wire, miscellaneous castings, and engines and boilers, but do not include agricultural implements. \V.;;s. Value*. 1871 §14,185,359 1872 ' 12,595,539 1873 ! 14,173,772 1874 | 17,312,239 1875 1 17,976,833 1877. 1876 13,641,724 1878. 18,549,922 15,101,899 Yean,. Values. 1879 $14,223,646 1880 15,156,703 1881 13,216,121 1882 22,343,834 1883 1 22,716,040 1884. 1885. 1886- 19,290,895 16,622,511 14,865,087 Yciirs. Value*, 1887 ( $16,235,922 1888 | 19,578,489 18S9 23,712,814 1890.. 1891.. 1892.. 1893.. 1894- L'7,000,134 30,736,507 27,900,862 30,159,363 29,943,729
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