The evening times., 1899-11-25
AMERICAN TRADE LOSSES
A Reduction in Exports to Japan,
France, and Canada.
The View Taken of the Commercial
Situation by the Treasury Bureau
of StntisticS-Explanat offered
for Changed ConGitiOns-The Fall
ing on I'm the Sales of Breadstuffs.

Three spots on the worlds commercial
map of 1899 appear in unsatisfactory col
ors. so far as the trade of tie United States
is concerned. says a report OF the Treas
ury Bureau of Statistics. These spots are
Japan, France, and Canada. AS to Japan
and France the explanation is simple; Ja-
pan is cutting down her imports enormous
ly, due to the adoption of a new tariff,
while France is not compelled this year to
look abroad for breadstuffs as was the case
in 1888. Japan has reduced her purchases
from America but about IS per cent, while
from the world at large she has reduced
her purchases 81 per cent. France has re-
duced her purchases of wheat from this
country nearly sls.o0o,00O, while her grand
total of purchases from the United States
has fallen but $3.50 900, showing an in
crease in her general imports from the
United States. and decrease in the single
item of breadStuffs.
Ii is with Canada, Americas next-door
neighbor, that the general trade account
has more unsatisfactory appearance than
that with any other part of the world.
This fact is the occasion of considerable
comment on the part of British trade jour-
mails. which are gleefully announcing that
with the home market that they are COM
PEELED TO neglect that across the border,
and that as result the British manufac-
turers are making rapid gains in their at
tempts TO recapture the Canadian mark is
This assertion is apparently justified by
the fact that the latest official statement
OF exports from the United Kingdom shows
that her exports to Canada in the nine
months OF 1883. ending with September,
in
corresponding months Of last year. and
G3,SI5,335 in the corresponding months OF
1887; while our own statement of exports
10 Canada shows a total in the nine months
ending with September of s6S.026, ,22i.
against SOS, 49,, ,G54 in the corrs spending
months OF last year.
detailed study of the export tables of
the Treasury Bureau of Statistics shows
that the reduction in American exports to
Canada in 1899. relates in but very few
cases to manufacturers. and is almost ex-
clusively in agricultural products, in
which there has been general reduction
in the demands 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 81. .13S.3i2 in value against si.437 .633
In the corresponding months of last year:
corn, S3,9lS,223 against S7,592OGl last
year, and flour, SSl3.i56 against s2.9Gl, 731
last year. thus making reduction in
breadstuffs alGne of sS.526,31S, as compared
with the corresponding months of last
year, while the reduction in the grand to-
tai of exports TO Canada during that time
is but ,f30, showing an increase in
the other articles aside from those of ag
ricultural production.
Even in these articles. corn, wheat and
flour. it is probable that the reduction
of exports for consumption in Canada is
more apparent than real, since consider
able share of these articles of breadstuffs
passing into Canada is presumably intend
ed for transshipmeDt and re-eXportation.
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 il
is believed that much of the apparent re-
duction in the expectation of corn. wheat,
and -four 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.
Aside from breadstuffs and provisions
the losses in exports to Canada have bsen
trifiing. Steel rails have fallen from ST.
4S3,3SS in the nine months of 1898 10 ST.
l22.lSl in the nine months of 1899: oil
cake from s5l 022 to $40. 6i4 cotton cloths
from S770,77i to Si79.i72: bicycles, from
s553.5l1 10 $50. 800: clocks and watches.
from S314. 500 to s2Sj 932: furniture from
1914, 81 TO S2sS.9lS: while agricultural i'm
plements have increased from 81, ,O5S,07S to
S1625 6l2; cars and carriages from SIPS
153 to s563.379; sewing machines. from
Sl13,5l5 TO S1i5057; boots and shoes from
$2i9,l41 TO 1857 ,552; manufacturers of to-
bacco. from si2. $50 to 1882: unmanufac
tured tobacco. from 72I 1926 to SLOT. 7.i22;
sugar, from s3644 TO slS7, sos; while there
has also been increases in numerous other
articles.