The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-27
COMPARISON OF EXPORTS.
GREAT BRITAIN EXCEEDS UNITED
STATES FOR 1900 BY s34,0OO,OOO.
Twenty-Five Years Ago Excess Was
$500, 233,OOO, America Having
Gained 152 Per Cent.-BaIance Of
Trade With Us, Against England.

Special Dispatch to the Post-IntelliEenccr.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s-Great Britain
shows nose ahead" at the 1899 quarter
pole in the neck-and-neck race between
the United Kingdom and the United states
for supremacy in the worlds export trade.
Domestic exports from the United King
dom In 1899, according to official reports
Just received from the treasury bureau OF
statistics, were s1,2s ,971 600. while those
from the United States were 81, 25S. $4,000.
making n difference of s34.00o.000 in favor
Of the United Kingdom in the years ex-
portation of domestic products.
Compared, however, with relative con-
ditions at the 1915 quarter pole. the rec
ord of 1899 must prove quite gratifying to
the average American citizen. In 1875 the
exports of domestic merchandise from the
United Kingdom kere s1Os1, 49, 600, against
$f97, 1853. 1877 from the United States. her ex-
cess over the United States at that time
being $500 233,000 against s34. 000.0 00 in 1893.
From 1875 TO 1899 Great Britain's domestic
exports increased from $1.0S7, 497 900 to ST.
2S7 81, goo, or 10 per cent, while those from
the United States increased from $497, 263,-
1917 to 81, 253, $4,000. an increase of 152 per
cent
Adding to the domestic exports of each
country those brought in from other parts
of the world and re-exported, we find that
the total exports of the United Kingdom,
lItfuufuk uouicStiC, LOici6H diN Hotoihdts
We're in 1875 1870 l65 600, and in 1899 81 ,649.
3ss GA, an Increase of 20 per cent, and
those from the United States, including
domestic and foreign" were in 1875 S510.-
7,422, and in 1899 81 ,275. 1854. an increase
of $50 per cent
Different ~ to Imports.
Turning to the import side of the ac-
count, the figures are equally interesting.
Great Britain's imports In 1875 were 81 3D.
10000 and in 1899, s.. 800 800, 900, while those
of the United States, which in. 1875 we're
$500, 152 936. were In 1899. $3.50. SS4 $40 COM
parison of the import figures with those OF
total exports shows an excess of exports
from the United States in every year dur
ing the last twenty-five years except 1898
and In the case of the United Kingdom an
excess Of imports In every year during the
period. In the case of the United States
the excess of exports over imports In 1875
was $7.794,4S6 and in 1899 1t was $475, 6o2 .O21.
while in the case of the United Kingdom
the excess of imports over exports was In
1875 s449314 900 and In 1899. $756, 2S1 3ls. Dur
ing the twenty-five years under considera-
ton the foreign commerce account OF the
United States shows total excess of ex-
ports over imports amounting to S3.970,564,
600, while that of the United Kingdom
shows an excess of imports over exports
amounting to s14 ass, 004 900.
The following table, compiled from official
reports shows the exports of domestic mer-
chandise from the United States and the
United Kingdom, respectively, in each cal
endar year from 1875 to 1899. and indicates
the relative growth during that period.
Exports OF Domestic Merchan-
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