59. Iron vessels, by States and customs districts in which documented....... 60. Iron steam-vessels, by States and customs districts in which documented.. 61. Iron sailing and steam vessels, by States and customs districts in which 62. Wooden and iron vessels, summary of........... 63. Balance sheet, showing increase and decrease of tonnage 64. Balance sheet, showing increase and decrease of tonnage of each class of 65. Sailing and steam vessels, from 1789 to 1886, inclusive... Tonnage and employment of vessels : 69. In the whale fisheries, by customs districts in which documented 70. Recapitulation of registered, enrolled, and licensed vessels, showing their Tonnage built: 72. Sailing-vessels, steam-vessels, canal-boats, and barges built in each State 73. Recapitulation of tonnage built by States and geographical divisions.... 74. Sailing-vessels-ships, barks, barkentines, brigs, schooners, and sloops built in each State and customs district 75. Summary of sailing-vessels built, by classes, number, and tonnage of.. 76. Steam-vessels-river steamers, lake steamers, and ocean steamers-built in 77. Summary of steam-vessels built, classes, number, and tonnage of.. 78. Canal-boats and barges, summary of number and tonnage of, built 79. Iron and steel sail and steam vessels built in each customs district 80. Summary of tonnage built from 1857 to 1886, by geographical divisions Tonnage sold to foreigners: Page 418.-Dress goods, &c., on line 26: For $28,383, read $28,833. 16.33 For $644,657, 671, read $56, 560, 304, read For $223, 118, 514, read EXPLANATIONS OF TABLES AND CLASSIFICATION OF COUN TRIES IN SECTION I. EXPLANATION OF TABLES. The statements of general imports, Tables Nos. 3, 4, and 5, embrace imported articles entered at the custom-houses for immediate consumption and imported articles entered for warehouse. The statements of imports entered for consumption, Tables Nos. 24 to 25 and 26, embrace imported articles entered for immediate consumption and imported articles withdrawn from warehouse for consumption.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 custom-house, and does not imply that the goods have been actually consumed, but simply that they have been delivered into the custody of the importer, and that the duties have been paid on the dutiable portion. Portions of these goods are subsequently exported. OFFICIAL VALUES. 1. Value of imports: The values of imported articles in this report are those which they bore in the markets of the foreign countries from which they were imported. The act of March 3, 1883, excluded from the dutiable value the following costs and charges, which prior to that act had formed a part of the duitable value of imports, viz: "The cost of transportation, shipment, and trans-shipment, with all the expenses included, from the place of growth, production, or manufacture, whether by land or water, to the vessel in which shipment is made to the United States; the value of the usual and necessary sacks, crates, boxes, or covering of any kind in which such merchandise is contained; commission at the usual rates, but in no case less than 2 per centum, and brokerage, export duty, and all other actual or usual charges for putting up, preparing, and packing for transportation or shipment." Under this system of valuation, the value of imported commodities landed on our wharves is less than their actual cost or value to the importer by the amount of the above costs and charges and the cost of freight on the goods from the last foreign port whence they were shipped to the United States. The item of freight from the last foreign port of shipment to the United States, however, has never been included in the dutiable value. The difference in methods of valuation of imports ΧΙ should be considered in any comparison made between the official values of imports of merchandise for years prior to July 1, 1883, and for years subsequent to that date. The values shown in the statements both of general imports and of imports entered for consumption are mainly unappraised values; that is, values as shown by the invoices prior to liquidation of entries. 2. Foreign export values: Tables Nos. 13 to 17, sometimes called "foreign exports," or "re-exports," exhibit exports of foreign merchandise which had been imported. The value of such commodities exported "from warehouse" is the value which they bore in the foreign markets whence they were imported into the United States-in other words, their import value (see value of imports, above). The value of such commodities exported "not from warehouse" (that is, goods not under bond), comprising free goods mainly, is the value at the ports of the United States whence they are exported. 3. Domestic exports: Tables Nos. 8 to 12, inclusive, exhibit the exports of articles of purely domestic product or manufacture; also, exports of commodities of foreign origin which have been changed from the form in which they were imported, or enhanced in value by 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 metals, &c. The value of exports of domestic merchandise is their market value at the time of exportation in the ports of the United States whence they are exported to foreign countries. 4. Value of foreign merchandise in transit or trans-shipped: Tables Nos. 18 and 19 exhibit foreign merchandise brought to the United States for immediate transit across the territory of the United States to a foreign country, or for trans-shipment in the ports of the United States to a foreign country. The value of commodities as shown in these tables is their value in the foreign markets whence they were brought to the United States, their official value being similar to that of imports. 5. Value of warehoused merchandise: Tables Nos. 21, 22, and 23 exhibit warehoused imported merchandise. This merchandise has already appeared in the statements of general imports, Tables Nos. 3, 4, and 5, for the year during which it was imported, in the total values "entered for warehouse." The official values of the articles therein represented are the same as the import values above described. DEFECTS IN EXPORTS. 6. The statistics of exports of domestic commodities to Mexico and to Canada by land are defective, owing to the fact that there is no law requiring railway companies to furnish to collectors of customs statistics of domestic merchandise transported over their roads to these foreign countries. It is estimated that our exports to the Dominion of Canada during the year ending June 30, 1885, as contained herein, are Mexico from the United States can be obtained for a recent year u which to base a reliable estimate as to the deficiency in value of official returns of exports to Mexico. CLASSIFICATION OF ARTICLES IMPORTED AND EXPORTED. 7. Tables Nos. 5 and 15 exhibit the condensed classification of a cles for the statements of general imports and exports of foreign artic and Table No. 24 exhibits the most extended classification of arti according to which the statements of imports entered for consump are compiled and published, the latter classification being reducibl the former. Statements of general imports by countries and by cust districts are compiled only according to the former classification, latter being too extended to admit of the compilation of imported a cles by countries and by customs districts with so much detail wit the time when such statistics would be valuable in the current busi of the country. Table No. 10 exhibits the classification of domestic ticles exported. 8. The word ton, wherever used in tables of imports and exports. dicates the long ton of 2,240 pounds, and the hundred-weight represe 112 pounds. CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTRIES FOR IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. 9. The following schedule exhibits the countries or groups of co tries represented in the statements of imports and exports by countr |