The evening times., 1899-01-16
VAST IMPORTS
!. =. OF THE ORIENT
A Splendid Market for Amer
lea in the Far East.
The Immense Trade of China and
Japan.
Tables From the Treasury Bureau
of 90 100000 Worth
of Goods Received Monthly.

The market which the Philippines and
the countries commercially adjacent to
them offer to American manufacturers and
producers is clearly and elaborately illus
trated in series of tables just presented
by the Treasury Department Bureau OF
Statistics in the November Summary OF
Commerce and Finance. These tables show
the imports by articles, both quantities
and values, into China, Japan, British In
dia, Australasia, Siam, Korea, Dutch East
Indies, French East Indies, the Philip
pine Islands and Hawaii in each year dur
ing the past decade; also the proportion
which each of the leading countries has
had OF the imports into those countries
during the decade.
a hundred million dollars worth OF
goods go every month into the markets
OF these countries, whose great potts and
business centres are, in most cases, locat
ed as near to Manila as Havana is to the
city of New York. Their population is
more than 500 1000, 900 and their total i'm
ports more than billion dollars every
year and rapidly increasing.
The imports into China in 1886 were
sos, 900, 600; in 1896 they were S171 600 600.
The imports into Japan in 1886 were $780,
600, 600; in 1896 500 900, 900. Imports into
British India in 1886 were a little over
$100, 600, 900; in 1896 nearly $3.50 600 900.
Australasia shows imports of over 5000. CO.,
600, although this includes the imports by
each colony from the other colonies, as
well as from the other parts of the world
To the individual producer or manufac-
turer OF the United States who desires 10
determine whether market is 10 be
found in the Orient for his products, these
tables Will supply detailed information.
They show, for instance, the quantity and
value of coal, cotton, cotton goods of all
varieties, fish, flour, ginseng, machinery of
all classes, matches, medicine, metals of all
kinds, oils, breadstufIs, timber. wool and
woolens imported into China for each year
elaborate statements of hundreds OF
articles imported in the latest available
year, indicating both quantities and values.
These are followed by similar tables with
reference to each OF the great countries
in question, thus affording the manufac-
turer, the producer or the exporter accur-
ate information as 10 the market afforded
in any line of goods, and the value par
unit of measure of the articles imported
into these countries in recent years.
The following table shows the importa>
tion into China of principal articles in 1856
and 1896, thus indicating the growth of
her importations during that period The
values are stated in Haikwan taels, and in
determining the increase the fact should
be borne in mind that the Haikwan tael
which on January J. 1888. was valued at
s1.l5, was on January I, 1896 valued at 81
cents, and that while the figures of the
total importations show an apparent in
crease of more than 100 per cent, the ac-
tual increase is something less, because of
the depreciation of the tael. whose value
huctuateS with the price of silver bullion: