LETTER OF SUBMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE, SIR: The provision of section 336 of the Revised Statutes requiring that the annual report on the statistics of the commerce and navigation of the United States with foreign countries shall be issued to the close of the fiscal year was amended by the act approved on January 25, 1919, to the extent that the annual report shall hereafter cover the calendar instead of the fiscal year. The last fiscal year report published covered the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, n compliance with the great demand from industrial and commercial organizations and firms for up-todate information concerning our foreign trade, the following statistics of the foreign commerce and navigation of the United States during the calendar year ending December 31, 1919, are submitted for publication as the second annual report covering a calendar-year period. In order to provide a continuous record, the half-year period from July 1 to December 31, 1918, is shown separately in the report for the calendar year 1918. Very respectfully, To Hon. J. W. ALEXANDER, Secretary of Commerce. PHILIP B. KENNEDY, EXPLANATIONS OF STATISTICAL TABLES OF FOREIGN COMMERCE. The statistics of the foreign commerce of the United States include the trade of the customs districts of Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico with foreign countries, but not the trade of these Territories with the United States, which is shown separately in the "Monthly Summary of the Foreign Commerce of the United States," in the section on "Commerce with noncontiguous Territories." In the statistics of the foreign commerce of the United States the Philippine Islands are treated as a foreign country, while the collectors of customs in the islands are under the jurisdiction of the War Department. The trade of these islands with foreign countries is, therefore, not included in the foreign commerce of the United States, but is published separately by the Philippine Government. General imports.-Tables Nos. 3 and 4 are based on general imports and embrace imported articles entered at the customhouses for immediate consumption and imported articles entered for warehouse. The statement of imports entered for consumption, Table No. 9 embraces imported articles entered for immediate consumption and imported articles withdrawn from warehouse for consumption. The statement of general imports and the statement of imports entered for consumption for any period will always differ to the extent that the value of entries for warehouse for the period differs from the value of withdrawals from warehouse for consumption. The term "entry for consumption' is the technical name of the import entry made at the customhouse, and implies that the goods have been delivered into the custody of the importer and that the duties have been paid on the dutiable portion. Some of them may be afterwards exported. Kinds, quantities, and values, how ascertained.—The kinds and quantities of all imported merchandise are ascertained by entry, made upon oath or affirmation by the owner, or by the consignee or agent of the importer, or by actual examination where the collector shall think such examination necessary; and the values of all such merchandise are ascertained in the same manner in which the values of imports subject to duties ad valorem are ascertained. The value of merchandise imported subject to ad valorem rates of duty, or duty based upon or regulated in any manner by the value thereof, shall be "the actual market value or wholesale price thereof, at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country whence exported; that such actual market value shall be held to be the price at which such merchandise is freely offered for sale to all purchasers in said markets, in the usual wholesale quantities, and the price which the seller, shipper, or owner would have received, and was willing to receive, for such merchandise when sold in the ordinary course of trade in the usual wholesale quantities, including the value of all cartons, cases, crates, boxes, sacks, casks, barrels, hogsheads, bottles, jars, demijohns, carboys, and other containers or coverings, whether holding liquids or solids, and all other costs, charges, and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States." (Rev. Stat., 336; act of Oct. 3, 1913, Sec. III, par. R.) Domestic export values.—Tables Nos. 5 and 6 exhibit the exports of domestic products or manufactures, also exports of commodities of foreign origin which have been changed from the form in which they were imported, or enhanced in value by further manufacture in the United States, such as sugar refined in this country from imported raw sugar, flour ground from imported wheat, and articles and utensils made from imported materials. Articles of domestic production when exported "shall be valued at their actual cost, or the values which they may truly bear at the time of exportation in the ports of the United States from which they are exported." Foreign export values.—Table No. 7, called "foreign exports," exhibits exports of foreign merchandise which had been imported. The value of such commodities exported "from warehouse" is their import value. The value of such commodities exported "not from warehouse," comprising free goods mainly, is the same as the value of articles of domestic production. Values of foreign merchandise in transit or transshipped.—Table No. 8 shows total values of foreign merchandise entered for immediate transit across the territory of the United States to a foreign country, or for transshipment in the ports of the United States to a foreign country, and which are excluded from the statistics of imports into or exports from the United States. The value of the commodities included in this table is similar to that of imports. Tonnage tables. In the tables of the foreign-tonnage movement the tonnage is stated in net tons of 100 cubic feet internal carrying capacity after the prescribed allowances are made for crew and engine space. Weights. In all tables published by the Bureau the measures of quantity are as follows, unless indicated otherwise: Ton, 2,240 pounds. Number of pounds to the barrel-Wheat flour, barley flour, rye flour, and corn meal, 196 pounds net weight; rosin, tar, and turpentine, 280 pounds net; fish, pickled, 200 pounds net; cement, 376 pounds net (four bags to the barrel). Number of pounds to the bushel is as follows: Wheat, beans, dried peas, and potatoes, 60 pounds; barley and buckwheat, 48 pounds; corn, rye, onions, and flaxseed, 56 pounds; oats, 32 pounds; malt, 34 pounds; castor beans, 50 pounds. VI CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTRIES FOR TABLES OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. (Schedule C.) 44 Miquelon, Langley, and St. Pierre Islands.. West Indies: British Barbados. Jamaica. Trinidad and Tobago. Other British.. Including the Balearic Islands. Including the islands of Oland and Goeland. England, Wales, the Channel Islands, the Isles of Wight and Man, and the Scilly Islands. (British.) Off the east coast of the United States. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island (including Cape Breton Island a islands of Grand Manan, Campobello, etc.), Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Albe west Territories, and Yukon Territory (including Anticosti and the Magdalen Islands); Br (including Vancouver Island). Including the Bay Islands of Ruatan, Utila, Bonacca, etc. Including Canal Zone. (Danish.) Including Cozumel and Revillagigedo Islands. The Bahamas, including the Andros and Abaco Islands, Grand Bahama, New Providence, Great Inagua, Eleuthera, Long Island, and several smaller istands; Turks, the Caicos, and C the Morant and Pedro Cays: the Leeward Islands, comprising Antigua (with Barbuda St. Kits (with Nevis and Anguilla), Dominica, Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands, viz, To and Virgin Gorda; the Windward Islands, comprising Grenada, St. Vincent, the Grenad Carriacou, Union, Cannouan, etc.), St. Lucia; and other smaller British islands in the W specified. Including Isle of Pines. Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustace, and St. Martin (south part) Islands. Desirade, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Martinique, Marie Galante, St. Martin (north part), an mew Islands. St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas Islands. Including the eastern part of Tierra del Fuego. Including the western part of Tierra del Fuego. Including the Galapagos Islands. Including its adjacent islands. Do. ASIA. 71 Kwantung, leased territory.. 72 Chosen. the Central Provinces and Oudh, the Northwestern Frontier Province, Assam, Burma, Coorg, Ajmere Including Ceylon, Christmas Island, the Keeling Islands, Laccadive, Maldive, Andaman, and Nicobar Is- Bali, Banda, Borneo (except North Coast), and the Anambas Islands, Laut, Natuna, etc. (except Labuan, Settlements of Chandernagor, Karical, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the east coast of Hindustan; settlement Settlement of Damao, Diu, and Goa, on the west cosat of Hindustan; Macao Island, off coast of China; Timor (British.) Includes leased territory of Kwantung. Including Formosa, the Nansei and Kurile Islands, and the southern part of Sakhalin Island. Siberia (including the Commander Islands and the northern part of Sakhalin Island), Bokhara, and Khiva. Asia Minor, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia, and adjacent islands in the Mediterranean. Including Tasmania. Auckland, Papua territory, Fiji, Norfolk, Choiseul, Isabel, Gilbert, Ellis, Solomon Group, Tonga, and other New Caledonia and dependencies in Australasia, Marquesas and Society Islands including Tahiti and Moorea, Kaiser Wilhelm Land in northeastern New Guinea, Bouganiville and Buka of the Solomon Group, Marianas, (Belgium.) Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, including Ashanti, Lagos, Nigeria, also Ascension, St. Helena, and Tristan Including the Union of South Africa, composed of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Transvaal, British East Africa Protectorate, Uganda Protectorate, British Somaliland, Sokotra, Zanzibar (including Including the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Algeria and Tunis, on the north coast; the colony of Senegal with St. Louis, Dakar, and Goree, including (French.) Including the islands of Nossi Be and Sainte Marie. The Cape Verde Islands; Portuguese Guinea (including Bissao and adjacent territory south of the River Ceuta, the ports of Penon de Velez and Melilla, the Alhucemas and Chafarinas Islands, on and off the north sels entered and cleared in the foreign trade," certain countries are further subdivided, as follows: lantic; on the Mediterranean. Itic and White Seas, on the Black Sea. ew Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island; Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and |