Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-24
OUR TRADE WITH CANADA
Decline in Our Exports of Breadstuffs to the
Dominion.
Falling on Probably More Apparent
Than Real-Slight Reduction in
Shipment of Manufactures.

Three spots on the worlds commercial
map of 1899 appear in unsatisfactory colors
so far as the trade of the United States
is concerned. These spots are Japan,
France and Canada.
AS to Japan and France, the explanation
is simple; Japan is cutting down her inn
ports enormously, due to the adoption of a
new tariff mildly protective, while France
is not compelled this year to look abroad
for breadstuffs. the case in 1898.
Japan has reduced her purchases from US
but about Is per cent, while from the world
at large she has reduced her purchases 81
per cent. France has reduced her pur-
chaSes of wheat from US nearly 1900 900,
while her grand total of purchases from
the United States has fallen but $4,000, 0d0,
showing an increase in her general imports
from the United States, and decrease in
the single item of breadstuffs
Canadian Trade Falls OF.
1t is with Canada, our neXt-door neigh
Dor, that the general trade account has a
more unsatisfactory appearance than that
with any other part of the world. This
fact is the occasion of considerable COM
ment on the part of British trade journals,
which are gleefully announcing that the
American manufacturers are so busy with
the home market that they are compelled
to neglect that across the border and that
as result the British manufacturers are
capture the Canadian markets.
This assertion is apparently justified by
the fact that the latest onIcial statement
of exports from the united kingdom shows
that her exports to Canada in the nine
months of 1899 ending with September were
tJ,W4,SJO, against "a 49S ISL in the cor
responding months of last year, and 1850,
335 in the corresponding months of 1897
while our own statement of exports to
Canada shows a total in nine months end
ing with September of the $63, O26, 224
against Sos. 932654 in the CORRESPONDING
months of last year.
Our Wheat Shipments Decline.
A detailed study of the export tables of
the treasury bureau of statistics shows that
the reduction in our exports to Canada in
1899 relates in few cases to manufactures
and is almost exclusively in agricultural
products, in which there has been a gen.
eral reduction in the demands upon us from
abroad, due to better crops in other parts
of the world. Exports of wheat to Canada
in the nine months ending with September,
1872 We're but 81, 13S, 342 in value, against
81, 43i, 1913 in the corresponding months of
last year; corn. S3.913, 22} against 81, 592 0O1
last year, and flour, 1913 1876 against 81 961, -
i5o last year, thus making reduction in
breadstuffs alone of SS.525,31S as compared
with the corresponding months of last year.
while the reduction in the grand total of
exports to Canada during that time is but
S5,S6,43O showing an increase in the other
production. Even in these articles, corn,
wheat and -four. 1t is probable that the re-
auction of exports for consumption In Can
ada Is more apparent than real since
considerable share of these articles of
breadstuffs passing into Canada is presum-
ably intended for transshipment and re-
expectation.
The bureau of statistics of the Treasury
Department has during the past year made
renewed efforts to obtain from persons
sending merchandise from the United
states into Canada a specific statement of
the final destination of shipments and it is
believed that much of the apparent reduc-
ton In the expectation of corn wheat and
flour to Canada Is due to the fact that
during the present year shipments of this
class into Canada destined for European
ports were so designated instead of being,
as too frequently happened in former years
simply declared as exports to Canada.
Falling OF In Manufactured Exports
losses in our exports to Canada have been
trifiing. Steel rails have fallen from
S1,4S33SS in the nine months of 1898 to
SLIP, 4S1 in the nine months of 1859: oil
cake, from sol, 022 to $50 644; cotton cloths,
from $40, IA to S479472; cycles, from .552-
oil to 100000; clocks and watches from
S314,J to S2S6,932. and furniture from
S344,3l1 to $29S,91S; while agricultural I'M
PIGMENTS have increased from 81, 05S. O7S to
S1,t23, 612; cars and carriages, from SIPS 1J3
to S563,319; sewing machines from $1l35lJ
to Sl43,O51: boots and shoes, from sZ43 141
to $500 boz; manufactures of tobacco from
Si3,96o TO Sl1 ,9s2; manufactured tobacco
from S72l325 to SLOT, 422; sugar, from
1854 to S1S1 sos, while there have also
been increases in numerous other articles.