Arizona republican., 1899-06-19
Exports Increasing in Spite of
 Legislation.
FAVORING GREAT BRITAIN
A Most Gratifying Showing Made in inc Official Publication by inc Treasury Bureau of Statistics Just Issued, of Our Commercial Relations With Our Northern Cousins.

The exports from the United States to
 Carada continue to increase, despite
 the legislation of two years ago intend
 ed to give special advantages to i'm
 ports into Canada from the United
 Kingdom over those from the United
 States. The legislation of two years
 ago. it will be remembered, provided
 for an immediate reduction of 121a per
 cent of the import duties or articles
 coming from the United Kingdom and
 certain of the British colonies, and
 an additional 121A ped cent at the eX-
 piration of one year. Thus the Jaw re-
 ducing by 9 per cent the duties on
 articles coming from the mother coun
 try and her cO,onies as compared with
 those collected on articles coming from
 the United States has now been i'll
 full operation nearly year. while one
 half of the reduction went into opera
 ton nearly two years ago. It is in
 teresting therefore to compare the ex-
 from the United States to Canada dur
 ing the past year with those of earlier
 years.
 The official publication of tlle treas
 ury bureau of statistics just issued | shows the exports in detail during the | ten months ending with April ndicat- ! ing in many cases the countries 10 |
 which the goods were sent. and it is
 practicable therefore to compare the | exports to British North America in
 certain of the more important articles
 1P
 An examination of these tables shows that in nearly all articles our exports to British North America have
 steadily increased during the two years in which the new Canadian
 tariff law has been ill operation. Of agricultural implements, we exported 10 British North America $291. 1O7
 worth in the ten months of 1897 prior to the enactment of the law in ques-
 tion. In the ten months ending with. April. 1898, during which time that portion of the law which reduced the rates of duty 1215 rcr cent was in operation, the exports of agricultural implements increased to S52, 2,364, while in the ten months of the fiscal year 1899, during which time the full p per cent reduction was ill opera tion, they increased to $1 ,OOS. orc In wheat flour the exports of the ten months just ended were over $3.000,- GOO, against less than $2,000,000 ill the corresponding months of the pre- ceding year In books, maps and en- cravings, the exports to British North America in the ten months of 1899 were $711, ,19S, against $J9G.629 in the corresponding months of 1S9S and 1 $51T, ,07S ill the ten months of 1897. 1 Exports. of carriages and cars to ( British North America increased from $1C0, ,G6S in ten months of 1897, under the old Canadian tariff, to SIP, ,543 in the first years operation Of the new tariff act. and $42O.5S7 during the ten months just ended and under the full operation of the act iu question. Clocks and watches increased from $266,64 in the ten months Of 1S9H 10 y $351, ,O74 in the ten months of the :. present fiscal year.
 h the finer grades of manufactures, such as cotton cloths. manufactures of iron and steel, etc. goods from the ! United States also continue to gain, ( it was in these lines that : the new law was looked upon as most likely to be disadvantageouS to I American industries. Exports of cot i ton cloths from the United States to C British North America ill the ten ( months just ended are , per cent in | excess of those of I1St year and Ofhnr C of cotton also show an | appreciable gain. the increase being 1 from $1.3J1, 124 ill the ten months of I lS9S to $1.573, 01S in the ten months of i lS99. Instruments for scientific puI a poses, including telegraph and teIe- V phone, increased from $2jG,9 in ten T months of 1898 to S341, ,S59 ill the ten a months of the present fiscal year. Builders hardware increased from \ S43S.556 in the ten months of 1897 to S0S1.345 in ten months of 1898. and S13O,556 in the ten months of 1S99 , Cypewriters Increased from $142. .39I i'll $ 1897 to $19S.993 ill 1898 and S294.5I9 L n the ten months of 1899. Manufac- ures of leather, comprising boots ana hoes, increased from $2O0, ,45O in 1897 o $234, ,446 in 1898 and $33S, ,216 in the l. months of 1899. Even P Il canned beef. which has been the a ubject of so much discussion of late, fl he exports to British North America h increased from 415,0S4 pounds in F s9S to 1,525.020 pounds in the ten c months just ended, while in ihe single p