Then why did you tell us that the 1860 report was where we could find the information that you used?
"Then why did you tell us that the 1860 report was where we could find the information that you used?"
That is where you can find the data on imports that the government used to compile its statistics.
But I told you that it would take some work. I gave you the beginning point, the US Treasury Report that annually gives the value of the imports into the country. You are going to need some more data to arrive at the results that the government had available back then.
Here is your next step: http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/CT1970p1-01.pdf
If you research the sections on commerce and particularly the Dept. of Commerce data, you will find the next data you need.
You have annual import value........now you need where the imports were sent (I said this above and each shipping point customs house kept the data). You also need the value of domestic manufactures and where they were sent.
From that you can determine where foreign imports were consumed, and where domestic manufactures originated and were consumed.
Unless you do this or find the research, you have very little understanding of the big picture and specifics of production and consumption, which is the problem with most of your fellow posters.