VALUE OF FOREIGN IMPORTS ENTERED MONTHLY AT NEW-YORK DURING TIIE

YEARS 1884, 1885 AND 1886.

Months.
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,.
July,.
August,
September,
October,
November,
December,..

TOTAL FOREIGN IMPORTS.
1884,

1885.
$38,085,320 $29,615,123
38,391,521

30,127,428
41,028,167 36,795,748
36,544,941

32,159,466 37,775,629 28,894,726 31,555,457

30,784,276 40,814,294 33,842,678 36,513,418 35,359,433 34,511,353 34,878,813 35,079,645

34,999,870 36,636,058

1886. $33,828,278 39,515,171 39,729,848 36,767,711 32,437,171 36,118,895 36,989,531 43,055,111 40,283,623 41,667,013 43,432,366 48,256,021

.

Total,

$127,938,601 62 .. $127,229,631 29 $139,078,890 01 VALUE OF EXPORTS FROM NEW-YORK, EXCLUSIVE OF SPECIE.

1884.
1885.

1886. First Quarter,...

$75,520,203 $82,555,980 $69,238,450 Second Quarter,

77,215,261
83.889,897

80,229,097 Third Quarter,..

87,633,227 81,983,910 85,234,819 Fourth Quarter,

90,492,685 82,388,906 83,469,215

SPECIE AND BULLION.

$355,459,959 DETAILED STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN IMPORTS, DOMESTIC EXPORTS AND FOREIGN EXPORTS OF THE PORT OF NEW-YORK,

FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1886.

FOREIGN IMPORTS.

The following is a detailed statement of all goods, wares and merchandise, the growth, produce and manufacture of foreign countries, that were imported into the Port of New-York during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1886, compared with the aggregate of all other ports of the United States for the same period. Compiled expressly for the Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce from the official report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on Commerce and Navigation :

Aggregate of

FOREIGN IMPORTS-ARTICLES.

Port of
New-York.

all other Ports
of the U. S.

Total

U.S. 1885-86

MERCHANDISE FREE OF DUTY.
Animals, not elsewhere specificd-
Cattle..

..number, 572 Horses.

1,513 Sheep...

126
All other, including Fowls.
Articles, the growth, produce or manufacture of the

United States, returned......
Art Works, not clsewhere specified, Paintings, Statu-

ary, Fountains, und other Works of Art, the produc

tion of American artists....
Asphaltum or Bitumen, crude. Ibs. 19,664,691
Bark, hemlock..
Bolting Cloths..
Books and other printed matter, not elsewhere speci-

fied.
Chemicals, Drugs and Dyes, not elsewhere specified

Alizarine, patural or artificial......... lbs. 2,189,566
Argal, or Argol, or crude Tartar and Argol Dust,

lbs. 14,584,629 Barks, Cinchona or other, used in the manufacture of Quinia..

. lbs. 2, 106,511 Cochineal..

309,016 Dye Woods in sticks-Logwood tons, 40,850

All other. Gums-Arabic..

lbs. 916,925 Camphor, crude.....

874,860 Cutch, or Catechu, and Terre Japonica, or Gambier,

lbs. 21,436,682 Shellac.....

4,246,442 All other Gums and Gum Resins, not elsewhere specified..

lbs. 14,504,422 Indigo..

1,725,861 Lime,Chloride of,or Bleaching Powder, 45,360,659 Licorice, root.

1,867,687
1,253,181

235,593 1,008,393 7733,431 203,970 106,727 292,499

2,103,280 2,261,574 1,332,968 1,246,570