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Show NEW YORK HARBOR SURPASSES RECORD NEW YORK, Jan. 8. Of every $100 worth of foreign trade in the United States In 191 $52- was transacted in New York, according to figures made public today by the collector of the customs, showing that the foreign trade of this port during the last calendar year was valued at 54.069,000,000. No other harbor in the world ever transacted trade to such an extent in a single year, it was stated. The total averages about $40 a head in the country's population. Customs duties collected here last year amounted to $753,-211.939. $753,-211.939. or almost half a million dollars for each business day. March was the record month, with S14.94S.47S. |