TABLE 2.-Domestic production, imports, exports, consumption, and per cent that production sustains to consumption with relation to the classes of articles carried by bill H. R. 4413, for selected years: 1890, 1900, and 1905.

[Production figures compiled from census reports; those of imports and exports from Commerce and Navigation, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. Because of lack of uniformity in classifications, the statistics of production are not in all instances strictly comparable, nor do they relate with precision to the classifications of the bill referred to. Close approximations have been attained, however, and important variations are cited in footnotes.]

Includes custom and repair work, and amount received for contract work.

Exclusively bags, manufactured from fibers, vegetable and textile grasses.

All jute and jute goods.

Not reported separately.

Includes skelp.

Includes custom and repair work, etc., as well as value of skins and hides other than cattle. Includes the custom and repair work in saddlery only.

Includes by-products, such as fertilizers, glue, etc.

TABLE 3.-Imports entered for consumption and exports of the articles carried by bill H. R. 4413 for the year ending June 30: 1890, 1900, 1905, 1909, and 1910. [Compiled from Commerce and Navigation, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and

1 Not separately reported.

Exclusively bags manufactured from fibers, vegetable, and textile grasses.

TABLE 4.- Value of imports entered for consumption, duties and ad valorem rate of duty, with relation to articles carried by bill H. R. 4413, for the year ending June 30: 1905 and 1910.

TABLE 5.-Duties from imports of articles carried by bill H. R. 4413, for the year ending, June 30: 1890, 1900, 1905, 1909, and 1910.

[Compiled from Commerce and Navigation, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and

Labor.]

TABLE 6.-Segregation of the items and duties composing the paragraphs in bill H. R. 4413, covered by (1) cotton bagging, sacks, burlaps, etc., and (2) lumber, laths, and shingles.

TABLE 7.-Duties to be remitted by the United States from imports into the United States from Canada under the reciprocity agreement, on articles affected by bill H. R. 4413, on the basis of the importations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910.

[Compiled from tables of Bureau of Trade Relations, Department of State, and from Commerce and Navigation, Bureau of Sta.istics, Department of Commerce and Labor.]

1 Affected by the bill (H. R. 4413), but not by the Canadian reciprocity agreement. Statistics not available, negligible amount.

Estimated, and includes extracts of meat, tallow, and canned poultry.

Includes $24,261 estimated for bran, middlings, and other offals of grain used for animal food. Includes $586 estimated for timber, hewn, squared, or sided otherwise than by sawing, and round timber used for spars or in building wharves; and $68,108 estimated for sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber planed or finished on one side.

"Estimated by Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.