Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-26
OUR COMMERCIAL GROWTH
Expectation Of Manufactures Double Those
in 1896.
importation Of Materials Used by
Increased One-EOurth.

The details of our foreign commerce for
the eight months ending with February are
as remarkable and as gratifying as those
relating to the grand total for that month,
which. as announced some days ago sur
passed the record of any preceding Febru-
ary The details of the export and import
figures for the eight months ending with
February show surprising developments in
our commerce. and especially that which
relates 10 manufactures. An increased i'm
portation of raw materials for the use of
our manufacturers and an increased ex-
portation of manufactured articles are the
striking features of the February state
Inent of imports and exports.
The importation of articles in a crude
condition which enter into the various
processes of domestic industry amounted
in the eight months ending with February
to sl9', 7.754, against s134. 7S1. 1879 in the
corresponding months of the preceding fis-
cal year. an increase of 100000 geo; while
expectation of manufactures in the same
time were S26S, 537972, against $2DG SO 337
IN the corresponding months of last wear
an increase of SOL 10000
In the twenty-eight days of February the
importation of manufacturers materials
amounted to 6,tO1, or nearly a million
dollars day, and the expectation of man
uiactured goods amounted to S}4 On; 12S
Or in round terms, a million and a uuarter
dollars for every day in the month. In
the eight months ending with February the
expectation of manufactures averaged
sl.ooo, 900 a day Including Sundays and hol-
ldayS). while in the corresponding months of
lhe preceding year the average daily eX-
portation of manufactures was only SSH :
ito- IN the corresponding months of 1856
81 it was but 100000, and in the same
months Of 1896 but s593,OOO
Exports Double Those in 1896,
mus the expectation of manufactures
during the eight months ending with Feb
ruary, 1900, are double those OF the CORE
spending months ending with February.
1886, while the importations of rnanufac-
turers' materials in the eight months end
ing with February, 1900 are % per cent in
excess of those of the corresponding eight
months ending with February. 1SG6 and
nearly double those of the eight months
ending with February. 1897. Manufacturers
materials. which in the eight months end
ing with February, 1896, formed IS per cent
or the total Imports, formed 50 per cent in
the eight months ending with February
lWo. while manufactures, which in the
eight months ending with February, 1896,
formed "A per cent of the total exports
formed 29.i per cent in the eight months
ending with February 1900
The following table shows the Immortal
tions of manufacturers materials and the
expectations of manufactured goods in the
eight months ending with February for
each year from 1880 to 1900 and the per
cent which they formed of the total i'm,
ports and exports, respectively. The figures
designated manufacturers materials in
GUIDE only those articles classed by the
treasury bureau of statistics as ARTICLES
III a crude condition which enter into the
various processes of domestic inductry.r