Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — “Domestics” and “Imported.” [ARTICLE]

“Domestics” and “Imported.”

From the advance sheets of the yearly official report of the tobacco trade the following interesting statistics .have been fathered; The report is for the fiscal year ending June 30, *874, and will be completed about March 1. There was exported from the United States, of native leaf tobacco, 318,097,804 pounds, amounting in value to $30,399,181. During the same time there was imported into the United States, and entered for consumption, 9,213,860 pounds of leaf to-

bacco for use in the manufacture of cigars, and 85,690 pounds of stemmed or prepared tobacco, amounting together in value to $5,332,548.41. During the same time there was imported into the United States, and entered for consumption, 845,774 pounds of cigars, or, at an average of eleven pounds to a thousand, 76,888,000 cigars, amounting in value to $3,080,628.79. In the same period there were manufactured in the United States, of foreign and domestic tobacco, and tax paid, 1,780,961,000 cigars. Allowrng thirty pounds of tobacco for every 1,000 cigars manufactured, there was used 53,428,830 pounds of foreign and domestic leaf tobacco in the manufacture of cigars in the United States. The comparison shows there were twen-ty-three domestic cigars manufactured in the United States, and the tax thereon paid, for every cigar that was imported and paid duty during the same time. A close scrutiny reveals the astounding fact that the average number of cigars smoked in the United States during each twenty-four hours is 5,168,000. The following amounts of <Juty and taxes on tobacco and cigars of all kinds were received by the Government for the fisca year ending as above: Import duty on leaf tobacco for cigars, gold, $3,224,787.82; import duty on all other kinds of tobacco and snuff, gold, $53,181.12; import duty on cigars, cigarettes, etc., gold, $2,872,091.47; tax on cigars, cheroots, etc., currency, $9,333,592.24; tax on manufactured tobacco, currency, $20,900,509.67; tax on snuff, currency, $1,038,445.92; tax received from all other sources from tobacco, currency, $1,970,327.79; total amount of import duties paid in gold, $6,150,060.41; total amount of taxes paid in currency, $33,242,875.62; grand total, $39,392,936.03.