[DiogenesLamp]

IMPORTS..............Specie.........Goods...........Total.

.............. $8,551,135 ...$353,645,119 ...$362,166,254

Can somebody run the numbers and give him the percentage of specie to imports so that he can see what the actual number is???

Well, if the specie is $8,551,135 and the Total is $362,166,254, then specie is 2.4% of the total.

[PeaRidge]

Maybe someone should subtract that figure from the total so that BroCanard gets it correct.
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No wait. Specie was gold or silver. Shipped out to either pay debts, establish a credit account, or buy goods.

But the American shipping companies also re-exported goods and specie for other countries.

So, whose specie is BroCanard speaking about? Mexico? Panama?

He has spent days telling all about specie. He must have a good source of data on who owned it.

Too bad that none of the records I have seen label specie by source. No way of knowing why it was there or who it belonged to.

But wait....it doesn't matter...for two reasons. The dollar percentage was too low to change the ratios and there is no way to say there is a relationship of specie to imported goods.

Another BroCanard rabbit trail.

[PeaRidge]

Do you think we should alert Bro or let him rest in ignorance?

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Well, if the specie is $8,551,135 and the Total is $362,166,254, then specie is 2.4% of the total."

In 1860 specie imports were your figure of $8.5 million.
In 1860 specie exports were $58 million, making total exports for 1860 approx. $400 million.