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2. Procuring and distribution of names of merchants in foreign countries.

3. Procuring and distribution of data on foreign tariffs and trade restrictions.

4. Protection of American patents and trade-marks.

5. Procuring and distribution of information regarding commercial law and practices in foreign countries.

6. Adjustment of disputes between American and foreign merchants.

7. Stimulation of interest in export trade.

8. Assistance to foreign buyers.

9. Distribution of information regarding American goods and industries.

10. Making studies of technique of foreign trade.

II. Furnishing assistance and advice in connection with research

work.

12. Collection and distribution of information regarding financial, banking and investment conditions in foreign countries.

2. Compilation of statistics.

I. Annual and monthly statistics of imports, exports and movement of vessels.

2. Special statistical compilations relating to the foreign trade of the United States.

3. Preparation of the Statistical Abstract of the United States. 4. Compilation and publication of trade statistics of foreign countries.

5. Compilation and publication of statistics relating to domestic trade.

3. Administration of the China Trade Act.

4. Aids to other government departments.

5. Studies of industrial and commercial organization and methods in foreign countries.

6. Aid to industries purchasing material abroad.

7. Supplying information regarding domestic economic conditions and trade.

8. Study of factors affecting domestic trade.

APPENDIX 3

PUBLICATIONS

Annual Report of the Director. The annual report of the Director, generally issued in December, contains an account of the work of the preceding fiscal year ended June 30, and a general survey of foreign trade developments in that period.

Foreign Commerce and Navigation. The publication entitled Foreign Commerce and Navigation, issued annually, contains the statistics of the imports and exports of the United States and of the number and tonnage of vessels engaged in foreign trade arriving at or departing from the United States. This publication has been issued annually since 1820. The reports for 1821 to 1865 were compiled in the office of the Register of the Treasury, those for 1866 to 1903 were published by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department; those from 1904 to 1911 by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. For 1912 and later years the reports have been published by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

The statistics were published for fiscal years ending September 30 up to 1842. The report for 1843 is for the nine months ending June 30. The fiscal year ending June 30 was used until 1918, when the change was made to the calendar year, the report for the fiscal year 1918 being the last one giving statistics by fiscal years. The report for the calendar year 1918 contains figures for the period from July 1, to December 31, 1918 and for the entire calendar year 1918. The report for the calendar year 1918 thus duplicates the figures for January to June of that year published in the fiscal year report. The figures for the fiscal year 1918, for the six months July to December, 1919, and for the calendar year 1919 give a continuous record without duplication. The volume is generally issued in the late spring or early summer. Several of the tables are issued also in separate form.

In this report the primary classification is by articles, the secondary classifications being countries and customs districts. For

some years prior to 1912 this publication gave a primary classification by countries, with a secondary classification by articles. Since 1912 the statistics by countries and articles have been issued as numbers of the Miscellaneous Series under the title "Trade of the United States with the World," the serial number of each issue being as follows:

Fiscal years 1912 and 1913: Miscellaneous Series No. 12

Fiscal years 1914 and 1915: Miscellaneous Series No. 38

Fiscal years 1916 and 1917: Miscellaneous Series No. 63, Part 1, Imports Fiscal years 1917 and 1918: Miscellaneous Series No. 78, Part 1, Imports, Part 2, Exports

Calendar years 1918 and 1919: Miscellaneous Series No. 106, Part I, Imports, Part 2, Exports

Calendar years 1919 and 1920: Miscellaneous Series No. 109, Imports only Calendar years 1920 and 1921: Miscellaneous Series No. 115, Part 1, Imports, Part 2, Exports

Monthly Summary of the Foreign Commerce of the United States. This publication, which gives monthly statistics of exports and imports of the United States, was first issued in 1866 by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. The titles of the publications and the offices issuing it have been as follows:

Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department

Monthly Report of Director of Bureau of Statistics, November, 1866, to August, 1868

Monthly Report of Deputy Special Commissioner in charge of Bureau of Statistics, January, 1869 to June, 18751

Summary Statement of Imports and Exports, July, 1875, to December, 1894

Finance, Commerce, and Navigation, January to December, 1895

Monthly Summary of Finance and Commerce, January, 1896, to June, 1898

Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance, July, 1898, to June, 1903 Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor

Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance, July, 1903, to June, 1912 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce

Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance, July, 1912, to June, 1914 Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce, beginning with July, 1914 At present this publication is devoted entirely to statistics of imports, exports, and vessel movements. While the publication was issued under the title "Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance," it contained a mine of information on various subjects,

'The gap between this series and the preceding one is only in time of publication. The statistics are continuous.

such as immigration, banking, railroads, internal commerce, and statistics of foreign countries, as well as monographs on foreign and domestic trade in particular commodities.

Statistical Abstract of the United States. The Statistical Abstract of the United States is an annual volume which has been issued every year beginning with 1878. It contains summary statistics, both official and unofficial, on every phase of American life on which reliable statistics have been collected. It contains also briefer summary statistics on foreign countries.

Commerce Reports. Commerce Reports is a weekly publication through which the Bureau distributes the greater part of the information regarding conditions in foreign countries collected by the officers of the Bureau and of the Consular Service. This publication was first issued monthly by the State Department in October, 1880, under the title Consular Reports. In 1898 the publication of daily "Advance Sheets of Consular Reports" was started by the State Department. On July 1, 1903, when the Department of Commerce and Labor was created and the Bureau of Foreign Commerce in the State Department was abolished, this publication was transferred to the Bureau of Statistics of the new department, the title of the daily issue being changed to "Daily Consular Reports on September 12, 1903, and the title of the monthly issue becoming Monthly Consular Reports" with the October issue. On July 1, 1905, both publications were transferred to the Bureau of Manufactures, the title of the daily issue being changed to "Daily Consular and Trade Reports " on July 17, 1905, and that of the monthly issue to "Monthly Consular and Trade Reports" with the July number. The monthly publication was discontinued with the issue for June, 1910, and was never resumed. When this publication was issued by the State Department the same material appeared in the Advance Sheets and the Monthly Reports. After the transfer to the Department of Commerce and Labor, the daily and the monthly became distinct publications, matter of immediate interest appearing in the daily and the longer articles being published in the monthly. From February 28 to July 5, 1910, the daily issue was suspended and a weekly took its place. The daily issue was again resumed on July 5, 1910, and continued to be issued by the Bureau of Manufactures and later by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce until August 31, 1921, when it again became a weekly.

The title was changed to Commerce Reports with the issue of January 2, 1915.

Supplements to Commerce Reports were first issued in 1915. These consisted of the annual reports of consuls, and were published until the end of 1920, when they were discontinued and the more important reviews were printed in Commerce Reports. When Commerce Reports became a weekly, the publication of the annual reviews of consuls was discontinued for a time, but was resumed in 1922; at first they were issued as Supplements with the subtitle "Trade and Economic Review No. ." On July 1, 1921, there was begun the publication of a monthly supplement to Commerce Reports with the subtitle, "Survey of Current Business." While at present a considerable portion of this monthly is devoted to statistics of foreign trade and foreign countries, the greater part of it is devoted to domestic statistics. This is really a departmental publication, the greater part of the work being done by the Bureau of the Census. It has no organic relation to Commerce Reports, and was probably made a supplement to that publication because this was the only method by which more that one thousand copies could be printed under the law providing for government publications. In May, 1922, another series of supplements was started with the subtitle "Trade Information Bulletin." These bulletins were first issued in March, 1922, but Nos. 1 to 22 were not supplements to Commerce Reports, the first issue as a supplement being No. 23.

Foreign Tariff Notes. Foreign Tariff Notes is a quarterly publication consisting mainly of material reprinted from Commerce Reports regarding changes in tariffs of foreign countries. This series was started in 1910.

Foreign Tariff Series. This series, started in 1906, consists of monographs relating to the tariff or regulations of a single country or dealing with the tariff on related classes of articles in several countries.

Special Agents Series. The publications in the Special Agents Series embody the results of investigations made by the foreign representatives of the Bureau known successively as commercial agents, special agents, and trade commissioners. The numbering of the separate reports began with No. 34, published in 1910, although numbers have been assigned to the publications which were