New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-09
WIDER TRADE RELATIONS.
GROWTH OF UNITED STATES EN-
PORTS TO OTHER LANDS
10y TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. !


Washington April s-The two large volumes of
annual reports from diplomatic and consular Of
fcers. known as Commercial Relations of the
United States" which were transmitted to Con-
gress by the President March l, will be issued
this year much earlier than usual, and the intro
duction, known The Review of the Worlds
Commerce. is nearly ready for distribution These
reports describe the present condition of commerce
and industries in all the countries of the world
especially affecting American trade, and in his
Message President Mckinley says it is gratifying
, to be able to that they show marked in
crease in the practical utility exporters and
manufacturers of the services of official rep
resentatives, both diplomatic and consular, in pro-
noting trade, and present of evidence to
| the steady growth in popularity in foreign markets
OF our manufactured goods well as of our food
supplies raw materials and the products of our
mines
In letter accompanying the Presidents Message
the Secretary of State says the reports present
not only the latest statistics for the trade of each
country and the share which the United States
now enjoys may hope gain OF
valuable details and suggestions to the activities
and prospects of all the important industrial and
trade centres of the world and the latest informa
ton as to the resources and commercial needs of
regions which have but recently felt the impulse OF
modern development" The Secretary adds:
Under special instructions from this Department
the consular officers addressing themselves
work OF collecting information OF practical utility
the neees ref n the United Safs T9o ee
heTa for their surplus production and they
in their efforts By the prompnde with With which their
REPORTS az printed and distributed Otherwise
annual reports which in the then Imperfect condi;
pubcaton were formerly SUBJECT e0 te considerabe
delay in transmission to Congress now sent to
the receipt Of the completed series at the end OF
plement them with all available services Of current
nn so that commercial relations shad
Of the final revision Of the work. The value to our
up to date s@e ISSUE Is o5yn and in
my Judgment. it affords gratifying evidence of an
in 6 R trace Which to
eTSeng the applause and emulation OF fn On
United States producers and exporters,
DISSEMINATION OF DATA.
The consular officers and. 10 an increasing ex-
a variety of important services to American trade
by We Ing: the Gea OF EEa rom from
individual business firms, as well as organized
the markets for American manufactures. well
for the products of our farms our forests and
sufficient general Importance. are promptly utilized
distributed with the least possible delay to the
newspaper press. to Chambers of Commerce and
other trade organza tons and to the interests more
Immediately concerned so that the country At
oher Country in the World It should be remarked
has rapid a system of disseminating similar in
or Of is ndusts and In
he of this se f the OF
gestions from our manufacturers. exporters. trade
from anu number Of trade newsna pers EXPERTS and
economists which have been utilized in instructions
ment of methods in the editing and publication
Thanks to the Industrial genius and energy of
our people. the United States has been nri"k to
other countries and to adapt itself 10 their snec'al
requirements as ndcated from time to tine in the
paratvely recent entrance into the markets Of the
world AS a competitor with the old manufacturing
nations. 1t has already ACQUIRED n standing and
reputation in many lines Of production which en-,
trade for MANY industries which hut few years
bounded by the domestic demand
SUMMARY OF THE REPORTS
The letter of Secretary Hay is followed by a
general summary of the reports by Frederic En-
DRY, chief of the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, as
preface TO the Review of the Worlds Com
merce." Mr.. Emory lays special upon the
continued development Of the export from this
country of manufactured goods, and calls atten-
ton to the fact that the general demand for Amer
lean coal in Europe opens field of enter
prise and presents the United States in triple roll
purveyor of food. of manufactured goods and
Of fuel for the industrial fires of the nations which
sell to well buy from the United States most
largely. In the summary Mr. Emory says
Since the date of the last annual review OF re-
ports from consular and diplomatic officers upon
the industries and commerce of foreign countries
which was then tFebruary 1889 described as hav-
pertinent has proceeded at pace Which has ex-
ceeded the expectations those who
most confident of a great development of our ex
of The Review in extending the sales of Amer
lean manufactures In the strongly competitive
markets of Europe has continued unchecked.
cept in the few instances where the quality of
goods has been sacrificed to cheapness, as, for ex
ample falling off in the sales of bicycles because
Of the expectation of inferior wheels and the word
American" be rapidly attaining world
wide celebrity indicating excellence and superior
utility in many lines of goods especially in ma !
chinery of all kinds. labor saving implements, fur
nure, boots and shoes, railroad bridge and other
building supplies, hardware, and great variety of
other classes of articles of iron and steel The
scarcity of coal in Europe and the increased
demand for American coal seem also to Indicate
that the United States is about to become great
of industrial we'll human food. and
that while supplying the world with constantly ]
growing share of finished products which it has
heretofore taken almost exclusively from European
workshops shall add to the material they
have long looked to furnish, and the food !
stuffs upon which their laboring populations so
their industrial fires. The broad lesson to be drawn
from the reports of the consular officers and the
data obtained from other sources summarized
following review would seem to be this:
That neither tho products of our agriculture our
forests and mines. nor those OF our work ,
shops and factories have anything to fear long
as they preserve their distinguishing merits and
hat the only they have face is falling ,
off IN the standard. either through careessness
the mista desire TO obtain larger profits by low
ering the quality. The reason American cottons
the markets of china and East Africa is because
they have been found by the natives to be more
durable than competing cloths and the same repu-
tation maintained in other lines of goods would
and healthfu growth of our foreign trade.
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