IMPORTS
\ɪmpˈɔːts], \ɪmpˈɔːts], \ɪ_m_p_ˈɔː_t_s]\
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Importations; as no state shall lay any duties on imports or exports. Const. U. S. Art. 1, s. 10; 7 How. U. S. Rep. 477.
By John Bouvier
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The specie value of the imports from foreign countries in 1791 was $29,200,000. In 1807, just before the embargo, it was $138,500,000. By 1814 it had sunk to only $13,000,000, but rose to $147,000,000 in 1816. Reduced by the tariff act of that year, it again rose to $190,000,000 in 1836, just before the crash of 1837. In 1857 it was $361,000,000; in 1867, $418,000,000; in 1877, $492,000,000; in 1887, $752,000,000; in 1892, $897,000,000.
By John Franklin Jameson
