Show agricultural import imports mr frank II 11 hitchcock ch ph e ef of the section of foreign markets of the agn agri cultural department has prepared a bulletin showing the v value due and charac ter ot ol our agricultural imports from each foreign country for the five fiscal years 1895 1900 it shows that our imports have an average annual value of ma 9 of which more than one half came from tropical countries brazil the leading source of our coffee supply sent us 15 per cent of our total al imports the united kingdom coming next with 9 3 per cent but the imports from it like those of germany which ranked fourth were in considerable part re by those nations from other na eions cuba was the third co antry sugar running her bar percentage up to 7 5 per cent of the total japan and china chins were fifth and a ath respectively ills philippines sent us 1 3 2 per cent of the total brazil a exports to the united baates averaged 54 a year cot cof fee ts alone amounting to 48 and being two thirds of our total coffee imports |