The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-07-22
OUR TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.
The Total of Exports from the United
states Has Doubled in the
Last Five Years.

In the hScal year 1894 the total eN.
ports of American produce and mer.
chandise to Australia were of the value
OF S. 100000; in 1895 they were SO, 600.
600; in 1896 they were SIP, 100000 in
1897 they We're Sl7,4OOOOO, and in 1895
they We're SlS,OOO,OOO, showing an in
crease of more than 100 per cent. in five
years, while the imports to the United
States from Australia were less in 1895
than in 1898, 1896 or 1897. These condi.
tions seem unusual in view of the fact
that Australia is an English colony, the
chief mercantile business of which is
done with the home country. and un.
der trade and other conditions which
are naturally more favorable to the in.
terchange of products, agricultural or
manufactured, with England than with
the United States.
The chief item of American eXporta-
ton to Australia is petroleum. the
average expectation of which to Aus.
tralia from the United States amounts
TO about 100000 gallons a year.
though recently that sum has been eX-
lean petroleum to Australia is now
about S2,OOO.OOO. A considerable item
of expectation, and one in which the
most marked increase is shown, is that
of railroad cars and carriages. This
item has increased from $4,000 in 1894
to Sl,275,G00 in 1898. The trade in to-
bacco with Australia is considerable,
Notwithstanding the proximity of the
Philippine islands and Sumatra, in
which fine tobacco is produced in abup-
dance The American trade with Aus
trala amounts to more than $l,000,00C
a year in cigars and to about a quarter
of a million dollars a year in leaf and
smoking tobacco. Sewing machines
to the value of 100000 year are eN-
ported to Australia and agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS to the amount of nearly $780,
COO. This item of commerce has been
steadily increasing of recent years. The
Australian market for American ma
chinery has about tripled i'll three
years. The expectations of wire have
increased since 1884 from 100000
pounds to 100000, and ii may interest
some of the critics of American com
mercc in other countries to know that
the trade with Australia in canned pro
visions, other than dairy products,
amounted to SOS, 900 in 1899, and fell to
$4,000 in 1895, and was only $4,000 in
1896 and does not seem likely to re-
cover much of the loss in the future.
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Australia in leather goods has quad
rupled. In marble and stone II has
tripled in musical instruments it has
increased 50 per cent; in tinware 1t has
doubled: in clocks and watches it has
more than doubled; in fishery products
il has increased Is per cent, the chief
item of which is American canned salm-
on. Quite a considerable item OF
American trade with Australia is in
lamps and chandeliers, and since the
large development of the American
lumber industries upon the Pacific
coast there has been a very large in
crease in the explorations from IA
cifc ports to Australia of American
planks and timber.
The development of American trade
in the Pacific and in Oceanica through
The acquisition of colonial possession
cannot fail, it is believed, to add to the
volume of American business with Aus
tralia. already increasing. The chief
item of importation is now wool; 9th
err imports from Australia into the
United States are gold lin some years.,
hides. chemicals, tin and coal. but there
is practically no business done by Aus
traIia in manufactured articles with the
limited States. though Australia is on
the highway of American commerce
from and to the Pacific ocean ports.-
n. Y. Sun.