Imports into France from Africa. Articles. Southern di. Northern di vision. vision. Total trade. $182, 000 3,032, 000 78,000 197,000 453, 000 1, 062, 000 Cattle (all from Algeria) .......... Cotton (nearly all from Egypt)... Wool (from Algeria and Barbary States)..... Sugar, raw. Cereals... Feathers, ornamented ... Minerals ............ Grain, oleaginous... Fish... Coffee ... Flax and other vegetable fiber. Gums Tobacco, unmanufactured.. Silk ...... ............... Cork, rough ..... Silk manufactures.. Table fruit. Hides and skins.... Bark, for tanning.... Coral...... Rags ..... Poultry, game, &c ..... Horses .......... Sponges ... Mats, straw.1 Olive oil ..... Fruit, oleaginous .... Palm oil.......... Cork, manufactured ...... Wood, hard, furniture, &c........ Potatoes and preserved vegetables Caoutchouc and gutta-percha .... Dye-woods and lichens.......... Bones, hoofs, &c.... Peanuts and tonlacouma nuts. Ox-horns, &c....... Vanilla ....... Wax ..... Grease ... Fodder.. All other articles....... $4,880,000 125, (00 310, 000 1, 915, 000 326, 000 183, 000 608, 000 3, 396, 000 274, 000 133, 000 156, 000 28, 000 267, 000 263, 000 123, 000 186, 000 13, 000 $4, 880, 000 3, 646, 000 5, 424, 000 4, 406, 000 9, 603, 000 1, 213, 000 1, 325,000 322, 000 372, 000 996, 000 818, 000 1, 660, 000 310, 000 1, 915, 000 326, 000 183, 000 608, 000 3, 409, 000 274, 000 133, 000 156, 000 28, 000 267, 000 263, 000 123, 000 186, 000 3, 319, 000 2, 599, 000 42, 000 86, 000 307, 000 442, 000 112, 000 41,000 2, 860,000 34, 000 683, 000 152, 000 97, 000 103, 000 5,441, 000 Total imports ........... 42, 503, 000 59,064, 000 Exports from France to Africa. Articles. Southern di. Northern di: Total trade. vision. vision. $396, 000 18, 000 401, 000 106, 000 74, 000 37, 000 107, 000 51, 000 1, 310, 000 83, 000 1, 875, 000 18, 000 60, 000 303, 000 Arms and munitions of war.... *** $1, 151, 000 184, 000 448, 000 2, 249, 000 5, 288, 000 186, 000 993, 000 1,056, 000 733, 009 2, 201, 000 246, 000 1, 400, 000 323, 000 313, 000 782, 000 746, 000 $1, 547, 000 2, 044, 000 4, 755, 000 2, 695, 000 2, 8-3, 000 221, 000 555, 000 51, 000 3, 559, 000 83, 000 7, 163, 000 204,000 1, 453,000 1, 359, 000 733, 000 2, 587, 000 270,000 1, 599, 000 501, 000 346, 000 936, 000 1, 204, 000 890,000 876, 000 190,000 1, 188,000 160 000 939,000 372, 000 386, 000 24, 000 199,000 178,000 33, 000 154, 000 43, 000 144, 000 87, 000 45,000 239,000 18,000 26, 347 78, 425 1, 240 11, 349 46, 145 92, 977 1, 086 6, 507 264, 076 11, 263 1, 148 230, 321 15, 888 4,540 864, 171 25, 125 4, 253 21, 128 5, 801 9, 469 10, 961 3, 553 11, 011 18, 362 19, 928 144, 199 Total breadstuffs...... 59, 154 200 Fancy articles not elsewhere 115 served. specified. iron. steel. tures. struments. oils. 685 27, 696 574 6,310 5, 240 300 2,569 11, 032 4,794 2,830 3,998 12, 845 1,077 2, 264 45, 064 3,030 877, 394 39, 535 854 8, 601 1, 111 536 2, 036 5, 470 3, 326 236 6, 886 14, 960 18, 741 759 4, 330 9, 951 8. 208 21, 375 28, 542 730 Direct export: from the United States to Africa–Continued. Pork ..... 17, 014 426 3, 408 8,657 7,440 23, 565 304, 548 7,092 1, 420 32, 154 438 246 705 1, 929 6,507 ! 430 295 252 1,041 : Provisions: 2, 149 Potatoes Vegetables, preserved rum. 286 76, 158 Manufactured.... Trunks and valises... 1, 299 Varnish ........... Watches, and parts of..... Wearing apparel............ Wood, and manufactures of Woolen mannfactares.... All other unmanufactured artieles. All other manufactured ar. ......... ticles. All other articles... 4, 623 53 152, 222 5,161 | 141 14 714 15 385 209 ........... 325 --159 .. 35, 00252, 113 31 54.800 60.. 18, 740 1,344 ***2*1****** 23 í 130, 268 2, 371 13, 424 ' ......... 2, 394, 507 | 167,019 218, 146 582, 630 320, 687 54, 874 20, 767 1, 387 55 3, 626 640, 817 6, 281 55 6,0 6,183 2, 539 Total esports ........ 325, 119 894, 503 4, 581, 924 COMMERCE OF AMERICA. [ORDER OF TREATMENT:—North America; Central America; South America; West Indies. ] NORTH AMERICA. According to official returns, the foreign commerce of the Dominion of Canada was as follows during the fiscal year 1881: Imports, $105,330,840, the largest import trade of any single year since 1875; exports, $98,220,823, the largest export trade of any single year in the commercial history of the Dominion. The total trade of the Dominion since 1868, the date of the formation of the confederation, is given as follows: Imports, $1,364,912,901; exports, $1,099,317,300—an excess of imports in fourteen years of $265,595,601. The trade of the Dominion for the year 1881, as above given, requires some modification in order to arrive at a true estimate thereof, viz: The value of the imports entered for consumption during the year is given as amounting to $91,611,604, and the exports of Canadian produce and manufactures as amounting to $83,450,000. This, therefore, may be set down as the extent of the commerce proper of Canada, the difference between which and the full returns given above representing simply the transit or transshipment of foreign goods, the greater portion of which are goods the produce and manufacture of the United States, and which, as will be seen by the table of imports into Great Britain, are entered in British returns as Canadian goods. The total trade proper of the Dominion of Canada from the date of confederation to the end of the fiscal year 1881 has been as follows, coin and bullion included: |
