The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-26
JUL FOREIGN COMMERCE
STATISTICS SHOWING ITS RAPID
M REMARKABLE GROWTH.
O the Eight Months Ending Feb
ruary Exports of Manufactured
Articles Alone Were $26S, ,972.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The details
of our foreign for the eight
months ending with February are as re-
markable and as gratifying as those relat-
ing TO the grand total for that month,
which, as announced some days ago, sur
passed the record of any preceding Febru-
airy. The details of the export and i'm
port figures for the eight months ending
with February show surprising develop
ments in our and especially that
which relates TO manufactures. An in
creased importation of raw materials for
the use of our manufacturers and an in
creased expectation of manufactured ar
ticles are the striking features of the Feb
ruary statement of imports and exports.
The importation of articles in a crude
condition which enter into the various pro-
cesses of domestic industry" amounted in
the eight months ending with February,
$500. to sl95, 3S7, 754, against $l34, 7s1, 1873 in the
corresponding months of the preceding
fiscal year, an increase of S6O,O0O,OW, while
expectation of manufactures in the same
time were $26S, 537. 972, against S2O6, S22. S3I in
the corresponding months of last year, an
increase of SCI, 900, 600. Thus the importa-
ton of manufacturers materials increased
during the eight months in question S6O,OO0,-
900. and the expectation of manufactured
goods increased SCI, 1900 in the same time.
In the twenty-eight days of February the
importation of manufacturers materials
amounted to SIS, 936, 6Ol, or nearly S,ooo.oVO
a day, and the expectation of manufac-
tured goods amounted to $34. 226, 12S, or. in
round terms, 81, 250, 600 for every day In tne
month. In the eight months ending with
February the expectation OF manuIac-
lures averaged 1000, 600 per day Uncluding
SUNDAYS and holidays), while In the corre-
spending months of the preceding year the
average daily expectation OF manufactures
was only $S51, 200: In the orTeSponai
months of 1861 it was but $iOV,WO. ana III
the same months of 1885 but $593,OOO
Thus the expectations of manufactures
during the eight months ending win feo-
ruary 1900, are double those Oh lne coI-
responding months ending with February,
1896, while the importations OF manurac-
turers' materials in the eight months end
ing with February, 1900, are % per cent.
i'm excess of those of the corresponding
eight months ending with February, 1896,
and nearly double those of the eignt
months ending with February, 1897. Man.
ufacturerS' materials which in the eight
months ending with February, 1896 formed
rs per cent. of the total imports, formed 80
per cent. in the eight months ending with
February, 1900, while manufactures which
in the eight months ending with February,
1896, formed "a per cent. of the total ex-
pcrts, formed 29.7 per cent. In the eight
months ending with February, 1900.
The following table shows the importa-
ions of manufacturers materials and the
expectations of manufactured goods in the
eight months ending with February Tor
each year from 1890 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
in a crude condition which enter into the
various processes of domestic industry