The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-01-04
COMMERCE OF FRANCE.

COMMERCE OF FRANCE.
It appears by document recently published in
France, by the administrators of the custom
internal, has been rapidly increasing for some few
years past. We find numerous extracts in London
paper wing the amount of commerce with every ma
ton with which that country has held intercourse,
and various other comparative tables in relation to It,
We make few extracts from that paper, giving the
aggregate amount of the general and special commerce
of France. for the year 1910; and also such have
relation to the commerce of the United States.
"The external commerce Of France has progress
siyely Increased during the year 1910. The total
value vi tae various articles of which it consists has
risen TO the sum of 063 0000f; this is the highest
amount that 1t has ever reached.
"Of the,two items which constitute this total, viz.
the inportations and the expectation the first is the
one IN which the increase has chiefly occurred. AT
no iormer period did the value Of imports ever amount
10 mllliard they have exceeded The latter sum
by 52,0O0,OOO. miard is 900 COO 0OO or a
thousand millions.
" The general export commerce q OF 900 OO0) has
only exceeded by 5000 900 (equal TO per cent the
extent OF the same commerce during the year 1883
but, on comparing Il with the average resulting from
the combination of the five preceding years, an in
crease OF IL per cent. will be discovered
The special commerce Qhat is to say, the com
mefce which includes N the one hnnd the foreign
productions which France imports for her con-
sumption, and on the other those arising from her own
soil OF her manufacturing industry which she sends
abroad includes in the total Of 2063 900 value
OF l,442OOO,OOO, viz impor.ations, 747OOOOOO; and
exports, sos, 100000.
" The increase Of the special com nerce has equally
occurred, rs in the of the general commerce, in
the value of the imports and n that Of the exports
pec'ally in the former. comparison with the year
1889 and the average Of the last five years shows an
increase in favor Of 1910, of Is and 26 per cent
in Interpretations, and of and A per cent the
expectations.
The following table shows the share which the
French marine took in the with each power
as regarded their respective navigation during the year
1870
appears that The proportion per cent tonnage
which the French navigation employed in trading
with the following countries bore TO the whole navi-
cation connected with those countries Gncludng that
OF the country itsef) as follows viz to the navi
CATION of England % per cent TO that of Spain 40
per cent, Norway l, Sandman States II, Russia 49,
Two siciles q, Turkey. 70, Hanseaiic Towns A.,
Tuscany SO, Prussia 5, Austria l3 N herlands 81
Sweden 4, Roman States 10, Belgium 40, Denmark
O. Portugal 6l Greece II, Mecklenburg 10, United
States a. Algeria So, Cuba and Porto Rico IS, Brazil
OIL Hayti 80, Uioguay 50, Egypt 65, the English In
dies SO, Barbary States 6l Mexico g. Isle of Maui
ritius S, ST. Thomass 70, Chill 95, Venezula 81,
Dutch Indies l00 New Granada 10, Coasts of Africa
50, Peru S. English Guiana Z, China 100, Cochin
China and the Philippine Islands 100, Rio de la Plata
lou, and Guatemala 100"
II appears that the amount ofimporls from the U mi
ted States in lS40 exceeded that from any Other coun
try. On this subject the report remarks:
With respect to Importation, the United States
takes the first place in the general commerce. which in
1889 was occupied by the Sandman States The for.
me Power is set down for I76 900 600 or II per cent
In the sum total OF the mportaons and Is 900 600 or
10 per cent in the value of the produce admitted for
consumption Compared with the year 1889 and with
the average the year 1910 shows as regards the pro-
ducts imported from the United States an incr ase Of
n and 6O per cent in the general and of 81 ard SO
per CEN in the special commerce. This increase
principally occurred in cotton woo)"
The following statements in relation TO the exports
from France to the United States are of Importance
not only on account of sheir showing the actual
amount of tie same for the years 1899 and lS4O but
showing also, the falling of in the latter year
CAS- regards expectations a sensible decrease has
occurred IN our commerce with the United States
Instead Of POI 00o 900 the amount of The articles OF
every description exported in 1899 TO tina, country we
only sent out 1856 600 in 1910. This difference
Of at least 80 per and he decrease has not only
affected the general, but also he special com nerce,
and IN the same proportion"
The following table showing the proporionnte per
centage winch the imports and exports of France
from and To the United States bears to those of the
'The table No. g. in which comparison has been
made of the united mount of mporatipns and ey por
tatons informs us that Powers out Of AZ shared in
1910 65-O0 hs of the total value of the imports and
exports AT The head of these Powers stand the Uni
ted States and England the former includes Is OOths
and the latter l3-lO0ths of the above total"
Then come, in the following order -
The Sandman States, which occupy the Sd rank
in the general commerce, and the 9Th in the special
commerce.
Switzerland 4th and 7h ranks
Spain, 9th and 4th ranks
BelgiulA 9Th and Sd ranks.
Germany, 18th and 9th ranks.
Russia, 9Th and 9Th ranks, in the general and spe
cial commerce.
Surprising the general commerce to be represented
by the figure of l00 the following will be, for each
of the same Powers the number by which special
with them, during the last six years, would
be represented:
TABLE.