Arizona republican., 1899-03-24
Exports of United States and
 United Kingdom.
CBOATE'S FRIENDLY RIVALY
These Two Nations Supply About One-fhird Of inc Worlds Im- porfationS of Domestic MerChan- diSe-Export Trade of United States Has Increased 6J Der Cent in Last Twenty Years.


 Ambassador Choate's recent remark that the United States and the United Kingdom would doubtless continue friendly rivalry in regard to the worlds commerce is quite justified by the latest figures on the commerce of the two countries as supplied by the treasury bureau of statistics. These show that the exports of domestic merchandise from the United States in the eight months ending with Feb ruary amount to $829, ,335, Al and those from the United Kingdom amount to $79S, 960, APT. In the calendar year 1893 the domestic exports from the United States amounted to $1,233, ,564 BPS, while those of the United Kingdom amounted to 1,131 ,944, ,331.
 The year 1898 was the first in which the domestic exports from the United States exceeded the domestic exports from the United Kingdom. On only two occasions prior to 1898 have the domestic exports of the United States exceeded a billion dollars, while those of the United Kingdom have constant ly exceeded a billion dollars during the past twenty years The latest year in which her exports of domestic mer- chandise fell below the billion dollar line was in 1879 when they amounted to $928, ,929, ,O26, while in 1898 they amounted to $1,131,S44, ,331. In 1879 our own exports of domestic merchan- disc amounted to $754 4,656,755 and in 1898 to $1,233 564, ,S28. This shows an increase in the twenty years of but 22 per cent in the domestic exports or the United Kingdom, and of 63 per cent in those of the United States, ap- parently quite justifying Ambassador Choate's assertion that the United States would continue to be a rival, though friendly one, of the United Kingdom in it's relations with the com mercial world.
 That the rivalry has been and is a friendly one, even to the extent of cordiality, is shown by the fact that despite our rapid increase in the sup plies which we are offering to the markets of the world Great Britain continues to take a proportionate share of that increase. Our exports of domestic merchandise to the United Kingdom in 1879 amounted to $346.
  an increase of 54 per cent; while, as already shown, our general exports in creased 63 per cent during that period. This is the more striking and worthy of remark in view of the fact that our own imports from the United Kingdom have not increased at the rate her purchases from us have grown. In deed the imports into the United States from the United Kingdom in 1898 are no greater than they were twenty years ago, the imports from the United Kingdom in 1879 being $10S, ,538, ,S12 and in 1898 $10S, S,945, 1855.
 Upon this subject of the relative growth of the export trade of the two countries, the United States and the United Kingdom, which ''in friendly rivalry supply about one-third of the worlds importatiOns of domestic merchandise" (by which term is meant purely home products, emitting all foreign merchandise re-exported) of each of the countries in question from 1868 to 1898, fiscal years ending June 30, being given in the figures of the United States, and the year ending December 31, given in those relating to the exports of the United King dom. The exportation of domestic merchandise only is given, as this seems to present more accurate pie t Ire of the growth of the producing power of the nation. The figures are taken in each case from the official re- ports of the government represented and therefore in the column showing the exports of Great Britain, are stated in pounds sterling
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