Arizona republican., 1899-07-09
THE WORLD IS OURS
The Export Trade of inc
 Unified Sf0teS for a Year.
An Increase in Every Country on Earth Except in Four of inc EupOpean Nations The Causes of inc Growth or Business.

shows many satisfactory facts.
 To British North America the ex- ports in the fiscal year 1899 will be in
 round numbers $9O,O0O,0 as against
 $85, 100000 last year; to Mexico, the exports will be about $25,O00,O 900 as against S21, ,205, 900 last year; to Cuba,
 the exports will be about SIS, ,O0O,O ,O0O against $8,26O,O0O last year; to Porto Rico, the total will be $2,500,GO0, against S1,5OO, 600 in 1898, and to the entire West Indies group the total ex- ports of the year will be s35, 900, 600 in round numbers, against $2G, ,439, ,000 last year. South America, to which our sales in the past have not shown as
 rapid an increase as those to other parts Of the world, shows a slight gain in 1899 and will reach a total of over | S35, 100000, against S33, ,821, ,O00 last year. To Asia the exports of tE1. year will be about $477. GOO, GOO, IS against S44, ,S44 ,00G last year, China showing an increase of over B per cent and Hong Kong about an equal increase, while Japan, which purchased enormous
 
 manufactured goods from us lastjyear, has somewhat decreased her purchases n these lines so that the total to Ja- pan during the year will show a re- duction of over $3,O0O 900 compared with 1898, but an increase of S3,OOG.0OJ compared with 1897. Oceanica shows remarkable gains. the total for the year being likely to exceed S30, ,O00, ,00O, against S21. .991 600 last year. and to Africa the exports of the year are in excess of these of any preceding year
 Europe is the only grand division which has reduced the amount of money sent to the Uni-- ed States for our products and this re- duct:on is confined to the four coun- tries, United Kingdom, France. Bal- gium, and Spain. The value of ex- ports to the United Kingdom for the year will be more than S25, 900 be- low that of last year. while the reduc- ton in the value of our exports to France will be more than S2O.0OO. 900. to Belgium about s4,OO0 900, and to Spain about S2,0O0 ,OO0 This reduction occurs almost entirely in food prod ucts, and especially breads,uffs. A year ago, owing to the shortage in breadstuffs in all other parts of the world, we were selling wheat at a dol lar buahel, while now with good crops in Europe and elsewhere the ex- port price of wheat Is but about three fourths that of a year ago and as a consequence the countries which wsre sending large sums to the United States for this purpose are somewhat | reducing their demands upon us and | paying smaller prices for that which | they purchase. The reduction in value | of wheat sent to Europe in eleven | months of 1898 is in round numbers | SIS, 100000, while France in the eleven | months reduced her purchases of ! wheat from the United States from S27,761,000 in eleven months Of 1898 to | $1, ,644, 739 in eleven months of 1899. | The United Kingdom has also reduced l her purchases of live cattle about ST. 100000 in the eleven months Of 1899 | compared With the corresponding ! months Of 1898 due, it is believed, largely to the increased price which the dealers of the United States are enabled to demand because of the in creased consumption at home coase- qUent upon the greater business activ- ity and better wages among consnm- CTS. Belgium's reduction in her pur- chases in 1899 compared with 1898 $ also along lines similar to those of the United Kingdom and France, while the slight reduction in the sales to Spain is readily accounted for by the of commerce between the II two counties which occurred in the early part Of the fiscal year 1899, but which is being resumed upon the for , mer basis, the May imports from, and exports to Spain being largely in ex- cess of those of the corresponding month Of last year. Tn all other Euro pean countries. including Germany, where a reduction was expected n certain quarters. the total figures thus far available show an increase and, as already indicated, the reductions where such have occurred are largely in az rcultural products, Ot which the in creased home supply in foreign coun- l tIGes has been sufficient to cause both I 3 reduction in the demand upon the United States and the prices paid for that demand.
 The following table shows the value V of exports from the United States to ! each of the grand divisions Of the world in the eleven months ending wtth May compared with the core f spending months of 1898: (
 1S9S 1899. I Europe, $900 ,967, ,636 $86S, ,074, ,S67