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There are no official figures obtainable giving the imports for the Philippine Islands. One of the larger importing houses, which keeps statistics of imports and which has practically complete figures of all goods shipped into Manila, has prepared the following table giving the approximate value of imports during the year 1897, including goods imported by shopkeepers and Chinese from Hongkong :

Woven fancy goods (ginghams, grandvills, muslins, regattas,

trouserings, etc.)

Printed gootls (prints, printed grenadines, etc.)

Yarns and sewing thread

Ironware, hollow ware, and fancy articles, known in China

trade as '• muck and truck"

Skirtings, gray cloths, drills (white and twills), crydons, etc Imports from Hongkong

Total

Say, in Mexican money

£380,000 270,000 130,000

230,000 300,000 300,000

1,610,000

$16,100,000

Coal imports amounted to about 90,000 tons. Petroleum imports amounted to about 114,330 cases.

The average value of coal in Manila is $10 a ton, which would make this item $900,000. Petroleum is worth on an average $3 a case, or $3-42,990. Adding these two items to the estimated table of imports gives a total of $17,342,990. Taking these figures as being correct, there is a trade balance in favor of the islands of $23,909,290, that being the excess of exports over imports.

COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES WITH THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 80, 1895-1897

Imports

Quantities

Values

1895

1S96

1S97

1895

1896

1897

FREE OF DUTY

Dollar H

Dollar H

Dollars

Sugar : Cane and other, lbs.

a 3,904,000

(«)

(«)

a 67,200

(a)

(a)

Textile grasses, etc. :

Manila. . . tons

45,865

35,584

88,533

3,572,236

2,499,494

2,701,651

All other,. lbs.

1,106

872

5,450

11,851

68,838

884,155

Hides and skins, other than

fur skins :

Goat skins. . lbs.

8,826

26,182

1,148

9,226

Hide cuttings, raw, and all

other glue stock

5,400

6,(>18

All other free articles. Total free of duty.

DUTIABLE

117

14,814

251

3,657.952

2.599,020

3,086,057

Sugar .... lbs.

04,865,892

145,075,344

72,46:3.577

1,043,806

2,270,902

1,199,202

Oils

6,237

1,820

Straw, manufactures of

26,148

81,352

72,137

All other dutiable articles. Total dutiable Total imports of mer- chandise

3,460

25,346

24,524

1,(»73.414 2,3s;3,8:37

1.297.68;3

4,731,366

4,982,857

4,383,740

a Dutiable after Aug. 28, 1894.