For the year For the year
ending ending
June 30, 1886. June 30, 1885.
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Domestic merchandise $665,964,529 $726,682,946
Foreign merchandise 13,560,301 15,506,809
Gold 42,952,191 8,477,892
Silver 29,511,219 33,753,633
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The value of some of our leading exports during the last fiscal year, as
compared with the value of the same for the year immediately preceding,
is here given, and furnishes information both interesting and suggestive:

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For the year For the year
ending ending
June 30, 1886. June 30, 1885.
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Cotton and cotton manufactures $219,045,576 $213,799,049
Tobacco and its manufactures 30,424,908 24,767,305
Breadstuffs 125,846,558 160,370,821
Provisions 90,625,216 107,332,456
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Our imports during the last fiscal year, as compared with the previous
year, were as follows:

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For the year For the year
ending ending
June 30, 1886. June 30, 1885.
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Merchandise $635,436,136 $579,580,053.80
Gold 20,743,349 26,691,696
Silver 17,850,307 16,550,627
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In my last annual message to the Congress attention was directed to the
fact that the revenues of