The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1856-06-26
The Cotton Trade of the World.

ole tables, exhlOiting tte amount OF the
cotton trade Of the world for the last Eve
years, with the various tariff duties and Gus.
tom house regulations. These statistics show
the important part the United States per-
form in this trade. This country has export.
ed an average Of more than thousand mil.
lion OF pounds Of cotton in each Of the FIVE
years past, 0! which, quantity more than sev-
en- hundred million pounds went to England,
and nearly two hundred million pounds to
France, from which this latter Government
derived an annual revenue Of nearly three
millions Of dollars The amount of cotton ex-
ported in 1855 was-to Great Britain, 673,.
49s,259 lbs, free Of duty; to France. 2lO,-
ll3,soe lbs, duty Of 1912 per 22o lbs, in
national vessels, and 90. .4s in foreign vessels,
duty paid 81 800; to Spain, 33,o7l,.
795, duty 81 l-2 cts. per l02 lbs. in ma
tional vessels, and sl.s5 in foreign vessels,
paid S265.206; to Russia, 44S, S,s96, Is 81
duty for 36 lbs, paid s47,ols; to Hanse
Towns, go. .so9,9 ,99l, duty paid, s25,795; to
Belgium, l2,2l9,5E3, free; to Austria, o.
76l ,465, free; to Sardinia and Italy, l6,-
0S7,064, different rates; to Mexico, 1921.
o79, duty sl.6o on lol lbs, paid slo3,-
lls; to Holland, 4,94l Ala, free; to Swe-
den and Norway, s,42s, ,437, different rates;
to British North American Provinces, SS3,
2O4, free; to Denmark, 2O0,ls6, free; to
Cuba, $500, duty paid s2,355; to Potu.
gal, l44,oo6, duty paid, 10 cents; else
where, .7o,s22. Total amount exported
in 1855, l,oo3,424,6ol pounds, which, at
an average price of eight cents per pound.
would psol luce the sum Of Sso.273,96s,os
The annual average importation of cotton
from all countries into England, the last
five years, has been s3s,335 ,9s4 pounds,
OF which amount, according to British au-
thorities, e6l,529,22o pounds. or more
than three fourths, were from the United
States. 7l5,525,296 pounds is the usual
consumption in Great Britain, the rest is
exported TO the continent. About six.sev.
enths Of the cotton received at Liverpool
comes from the United Stases; four fifihs are
estimated to be imported for the factories of
Lancashire and Yorkshire. The number
OF spindles in operation in England is es,i.
mated at more than twenty millions. The
value Of cotton supplied by the United
States TO CIR a, Britain, in 1856, was $751;.
6l6,749, being about the average each
year the last four. About one tenth OF the
cotton imported from the United States is
re exported from England, while nearly
one-haif Of that imported from British In.
dia is never used in her factories. but is
sent away. These facts are significant Of
their relative value. American cotton is
estimated as one hundred per cent. superi
or to that OF India. Cotton constitutes in
value more than two.thirds Of the domes.
tic exports Of the United States to France
Next 10 the United States, France derives
her supplies of cotton from the Levant, and
the third place is held by South America
There are at present in Russia, or there
were previous 10 the war, 495 cotton facto.
ries, employing ll2,427 operatives, and
producing annually 4o,907,7s6 pounds Of
yarns and corresponding amounts Of tex
ules.
Before the breaking ou, of the late war,
the manufacture Of cotton in the Russian
empire was progressing with extraordinary
activity. The number Of spindles exceed
ed $4,000, producing annually upwards
OF 10000, 900 pounds Of cotton yarns The
barter trade with the Chinese at Kiachta
stimulates this branch of manufactures in
Russia, as the article Of cotton velvet con.
s,ituies the leading staple of exchange a,
that point for the teas and other merehan.
| disc of China. In former years this article
was supplied almost exclusively by Grea,
Britain. but the Chinese prefer the Russian
manufacture, and hence the steady progress
o: that branch Of industry. Thus annually
increasing importations of the raw materi-
al and constant diminution in the quantity
OF colt on yarns imported is accounted for
Were raw cotton admitted, as in England,
free of duty, the United States would most,
probably supply, in the direct trade, the
whole quantity consumed in that empire.
As 1t Is, the commercial reforms ia Russia,
already announced officially and now in
progress, comPrehending, as they do, the
establishment of American houses at St.
Petersburg, must necessarily tend to that
resut.-iSoaM Carolinian.
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