Arizona republican., 1899-11-29
THREE DARK SPOTS
BIOts Upon the Enlarged Con-
 merCa Of This Country.
Our Business With Japan. France and Canada Has Undergone Decline. The Causes of tke Falling Away in Each Instance.

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 Ja- pan and France, the explanation is simple; Japan is cutting down her i'm ports enormously, due to the adopt'on of a new tariff mildly protective, while France is not compelled this year to | look abroad for breadstuffs as was the case in 1898. Japan has reduced her purchases from us but about eighteen per cent, while from the world at large she has reduced her purchases thirty seven per cent. France has reduced her purchases of wheat from us nearly ' s1S,OOO,OOO, while her grand total of pur- chases from the United States has fallen but s13,OOO,OOO, showing an in crease in her general imports from the United States. and a decrease in the single item of breadstuffs.
 It is with Canada, our next door neighbor, that the general trade ac- count has a more unsatisfactory ap- pearance than that with any other part of the world. This fact is the occasion of considerable comment on the part of British trade journals which are gleefully announcing that the Ameri- can manufacturers are so busy with the home market that they are com pelled to neglect that across the bor- der, and that as a result the British manufacturers are making rapid gains in their attempts to recapture the Can adian markets. This assertion is ap- parently justified by the fact that the 1 latest official statement of exports from the United Kingdom shows that her exports to Canada in the nine months of 1899 ending with September were e5OO4, $50, against e4,49S,1S1 in the corresponding months of last year, and e3,S75,33 in the corresponding months of 1897; while our own State ment of exports to Canada shows a to- tai in the nine months ending with September of $6S,O26,2 ,224. against S6S,- 932, ,654 in the corresponding months of last year.
 A detailed study Of the export tables of the treasury bureau of statistics shows that the reduction in our eX- ports to Canada in 1899 relates in but very few cases to manufactures and is almost exclusively in agricultural pro- ducts 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, 1899, were but $1, 73S,3 ,342 in value, against $4,437633 in the corresponding months of last year; corn, $3913, ,223, against S7.592, OO1 last year, and flour, SSl3, 436, against g 961,- | 735 last year. thus making a reduction in breadstuffs alone of SS,526S1S as | compared with the corresponding months of last year, while the reduc- tion in the grand total of exports to Canada during that time is but s5 906,- 430, showing an increase in the other articles aside from those of agricul-
 
 cles, corn, wheat and flour, it is probable that the reduction of eX- ports for consumption in Canada is more apparent than real, since a con siderable share of these articles of breadstuffs passing into Canada is pre- | sumably intended for transshipment and re-eXportation. The bureau of statistics of the treasury department has during the past year made re- newed efforts to obtain from persons sending merchandise from the United States into Canada a specific state ment of the final destination of ship ments and it is believed that much of the apparent reduction in the exporta- ton of corn, wheat and flour to Canada is due to the fact that during the pres ent 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.
 Aside from breadstuffs and provis- ions the losses in our exports to Can ada have been trifling. Steel rails have fallen from S1,4S3, 3SS in the nine months of 1898 to $1,122, ,4S1 in the nine months of 1899; oil cake, from s51, ,O22, to $3O.- GA; cotton cloths, from S77O,774, to $479,4 ,472; cycles, from s553,511 to $510,- 300; clocks and watches, from $314, ,5O9, to $2S6,9S2; and furniture, from s344,- ] 371, to S29S,91S; while agricultural i'm plements have increased from $1 ,O5S, ,O7S, to S1,6256 612; cars and carriages, from | SIPS, S,15S, to S56S,379; sewing machines, from $11S,515. to $14S,O57; boots and shoes, from S249.141, to $357,552; manu- l factures of tobacco, from $43, ,96O, to ST, ,9S2; unmanufactured tobacco, from $721, ,325, to $1,G77.422; sugar, from