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Table 30.-—Water-Borne Foreign Commerce of the United States: Weight of 
Cargo and Percentage in American Vessels 
[In thousands of long tons; calendar year] 
Imports 
Exports 
Item 
Potal weight of cargo (includ- 
‘ng Great Lakes) ____...___ 
Dry cargo, ocean. ....___.i 
Tanker cargo, 0cean....._._ 
Great Lakes. ...__...____ 
ar cent of total carried by: 
Shipping Board.-...._.... 
Other American .....__... 
British. ooo. 
Other forelgn_.......____. 
2er cent carried in American 
vessels: } 
Of all cargoes (including 
Great Lakes)... ___ 
Of dry cargoes, ocean.._.__| 
Of tanker cargoes. ocoan. 
1991 | 1992 | 
1923 | 1924 | 1925 
1921 | 1922 | 10923 
"1004 | 1095 
3, 178 |44, 780 143, 525 '40, 809 |42, 683 
2, 357 120, 790 |23, 050 21, 894 |24, 410 
7,362 (19, 156 (15, 833 us 657 112, 718 | 
2,459 | 4,834 1 5 142 | 4,348 | B, 555 
18, 853 142, 693 |49, 604 52, 261 
34,855 120, 004 [31,225 32, 626 
5,980 | 6,440 | 9,488 11,057 
7,818 7,189 | 8,081 1 8, 57R 
5 15 16 14 13 11 
44 23 24] 10 2 | 21 
2, | 33 | 36 37 
2 “el Fl 3%] Swi 5 
48, 086 
31, 000 
10, 340 
B '748 
15 
8 
3 
20 
2 
51 
19 
IR 
7 6 
46 48 
21 21 
oa | or 
33 
25 
ir 
53 
21 
54 
32 
70 
49 
28 
74 
38 40 33 35 32 
33 34 32 32 30 
40 36 25 32 35 
1 Included in * Other foreign vessels.” 
3ourre: Bureau of Research, United States Shipping Board. 
The great bulk of our export cargoes, in weight, goes to Canada, the 
United Kingdom, the Havre-Hamburg range, and Latin America 
{Table 31). Canada received 19.5 per cent in 1925, the United King- 
dom 14.6 per cent, the Havre-Hamburg range 15.9 per cent, and 
Latin America 12.8 per cent. With regard to imports, the large 
amount of oil imported from Mexico raises that country to first rank 
in point of weight of imports, shipments of that commodity to the 
United States, despite a great falling off, accounsing for 24.5 per cent 
of the total in 1925. Canada ranks next with 19.2 per cent. Latin 
America, exclusive of Mexico. accounted for 29 per cent of the vear's 
sotal imports. 
Petroleum and products represent the greatest weight of both im- 
ports and exports, accounting in 1925 for 30.2 per cent of the former 
and 31.1 per cent of the latter (Table 32). Exports of wheat and 
other grains amounted to 14.8 per cent of the total, coal and coke to 
11.4 per cent, and logs and lumber to 10.5 per cent. Cotton, wheat 
flour, iron and steel manufactures, vegetables and vegetable products, 
meat and dairy products, and phosphates followed. Imports of sugar 
ranked second to petroleum, and accounted for 10.5 per cent of the 
total; iron ore represented 6.3 per cent, and logs and lumber 3.8 per 
cent. Fruits and nuts, molasses, nitrates, iron and steel manufac- 
tures, potash, and wood pulp were next in importance among the 
import items. Petroleum imports have fallen steadily since 1922.