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Summary of Values of Imported Merchandise entered for Consumption, by Groups, according to Degree of Manufactures and Uses, from 1880 to 1889.

		Year ending June 30—	VALUE OF—		Total.	Duty.	Ad valo rem rate on duti- able.	Per cent of total duty.	Per cent of total value.
			Free of duty.	Dutiable.
							Per cent.	Per cent.	Per cent.
(A) Articles of food, and animals.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1880	$90,637,062	$108,528,901	$199,165,963	$52,305,551	48·19	28·67	31·72
		1881	90,372,067	125,984,270	216,984,270	58,748,703	46·68	30·35	33·25
		1882	82,244,581	147,876,926	230,121,507	63,325,109	42·82	29·37	32·13
		1883	78,565,246	135,834,124	214,399,370	58,556,183	43·11	27·93	30·59
		1884	92,589,286	132,136,969	224,726,255	59,135,172	44·75	31·15	33·66
		1885	86,559,991	107,706,369	194,266,360	61,695,247	57·28	34·75	33·52
		1886	83,752,303	112,453,925	196,206,228	61,664,714	54·37	32·42	31·38
		1887	99,183,773	112,273,076	211,456,849	67,998,334	60·57	32·07	30·94
		1888	104,291,336	115,114,040	219,395,376	64,393,790	56·00	30·16	30·80
		1889	119,403,491	121,263,202	240,666,693	66,658,932	54·90	20·44	32·45
(B) Articles in a crude condit'n which enter into the vari- ous processes of domestic in- dustry.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1880	96,980,615	63,075,261	160,055,876	20,650,123	32·74	11·32	25·52
		1881	92,570,041	569,290,006	149,499,047	17,130,700	30·09	8·85	22·98
		1882	103,045,047	61,010,729	164,055,776	18,788,424	30·80	8·71	22·91
		1883	102,844,603	46,321,172	149,165,775	12,936,129	27·98	6·17	21·29
		1884	94,039,567	44,457,174	138,496,741	11,927,748	26·82	6·28	20·75
		1885	82,507,747	37,101,595	119,609,342	9,454,989	25·48	5·33	20·64
		1886	102,438,364	41,613,658	144,052,022	12,863,115	30·91	6·83	23·04
		1887	106,389,032	59,542,660	165,931,692	19,567,903	32·86	9·23	24·28
		1888	111,808,141	56,221,508	168,029,649	15,830,839	28·16	7·42	23·59
		1889	110,706,883	61,427,833	172,137,716	15,363,625	25·01	7·02	23·22
(C) Articles wholly or par- tially manu- factured, for use as mate- rials in the manufactures and mechanic arts.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1880	10,529,186	62,657,777	73,186,963	18,864,498	30·11	10·34	11·66
		1881	9,360,939	58,711,565	68,072,504	17,475,342	29·76	9·03	10·46
		1882	13,488,950	65,736,906	79,225,856	19,943,553	30·35	9·25	11·06
		1883	13,032,614	75,580,521	88,613,135	23,055,271	30·50	11·00	12·64
		1884	12,186,427	69,963,939	82,150,366	18,536,278	26·49	9·76	12·31
		1885	11,185,487	61,271,465	72,456,952	17,088,148	27·89	9·64	12·50
		1886	10,689,156	67,855,317	78,544,473	50,115,152	29·68	10·68	12·56
		1887	12,149,883	67,505,441	79,655,324	20,393,493	30·21	9·62	11·66
		1888	11,692,617	73,013,645	84,706,252	21,824,738	29·89	10·22	11·90
		1889	12,494,105	71,860,404	84,354,509	22,195,095	30·89	10·15	11·33
(D) Articles manufactured, ready for con- sumption.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1880	9,131,858	120,872,785	130,004,643	56,271,500	46·55	30·85	20·72
		1881	9,134,263	135,095,640	144,229,903	63,665,234	47·13	32·89	22·17
		1882	10,621,238	147,545,470	158,166,708	70,541,612	47·81	32·72	22·08
		1883	11,116,812	151,292,076	162,408,888	71,116,388	47·01	33·92	23·17
		1884	11,035,112	123,015,766	134,050,878	58,518,730	47·57	30·82	20·08
		1885	10,617,405	108,410,164	119,027,569	52,387,336	48·28	29·54	20·54
		1886	12,446,211	113,824,644	126,270,855	55,653,853	48·90	29·54	20·19
		1887	11,565,665	124,473,106	136,038,771	61,898,366	49·73	29·19	19·90
		1888	11,438,012	133,352,873	144,790,885	67,426,549	50·56	31·58	20·33
		1889	9,820,801	137,775,840	147,596,641	86,683,765	49·85	61·40	19·91
(E) Articles of voluntary use, luxuries, etc.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1880	770,459	64,371,367	65,141,826	34,323,490	53·32	15·82	10·38
		1881	11,200,102	71,341,106	72,461,208	36,541,032	51·22	18·88	11·14
		1882	1,322,164	83,321,935	84,644,099	43,018,973	51·63	19·95	11·82
		1883	1,354,014	84,888,491	86,242,505	43,995,728	51·83	20·98	12·31
		1884	1,429,873	86,721,276	88,151,149	41,732,067	48·12	21·98	18·20
		1885	2,041,604	72,178,227	74,219,831	36,698,830	50·84	20·69	12·81
		1886	2,204,725	78,030,511	80,235,236	38,682,533	49·58	20·53	12·83
		1887	3,805,306	86,531,039	90,336,345	42,174,328	48·74	19·89	13·22
		1888	4,874,746	90,451,708	95,326,454	44,033,886	48·70	20·63	13·88
		1889	4,149,350	92,529,489	96,678,839	45,890,357	49·60	20·99	13·04
Total	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1880	208,049,180	419,506,091	627,555,271	182,415,162	43·48
		1881	202,557,412	448,061,587	650,618,999	193,561,011	43·20
		1882	210,721,980	505,491,966	716,213,946	215,617,671	42·66
		1883	206,913,289	493,916,384	700,829,673	209,659,699	42·45
		1884	211,280,265	456,295,124	667,575,389	189,844,995	41·51
		1885	192,912,234	386,667,820	579,580,054	177,319,550	45·86
		1886	211,530,759	413,778,055	625,308,814	188,379,397	45·55
		1887	233,093,659	450,325,322	683,418,981	212,032,424	47·10
		1888	244,104,852	468,143,774	712,248,626	213,509,802	45·63
		1889	256,574,630	484,856,768	741,431,398	218,701,774	45·13

Early in the administration of President Cleveland I ventured to suggest to Assistant Secretary Fairchild to carry back this classification from the year 1884, in which it was first established, to the year 1880, so that we now have the result of ten consecutive years, 1880 to 1889 inclusive, which I now submit for consideration. I think all will agree with me that no committee of any party or under any name can fail to be governed by the logic of these lines in preparing measures of tariff reform.