New-York tribune., 1900-07-30
AMERICAS TRADE GROWS.
GREAT INCREASE SHOWN IN MANY
BRANCHES OF COMMERCE WITH
FOREIGN NATIONS.

pleted and will form part OF the June summary of
commerce and finance, which will make its ap-
pearance during the coming week. The report
shows the total imports of merchandise in the
year were :S49 71467o and the total exports sS94,
1851 The principal features of the report omit
ting the statistical tables, are as follows:
Four great facts the foreign COM
of the decade and century: 49,. ,,oo. .,,r,,o.so.
First.The total commerce of the year surpasses a s
the first time in United States history exceeds
exports exceed those ,O Of any PTeSsd
g eG af6 the R%gf World san e1er O
Manufacturers, materials we're more free free
share of the total imports than on any former oc-
Fourth-Manufactured articles were more freely
exported than ever before, and formed a larger
share Of the total exports than az any former time
In exports every great class OF articles showed
larger total than in the preceding year. in imports
every class except manufacturers materials
showed a smaller percentage OF the total than in
the preceding year. while manufacturers materials
showed much larger total and larger percentage
of the grand total than in any former year
INCREASE IN MANUFACTURERS IMPORTS.
Two of the five great classes of imports are ex-
clusively manufacturers materials. The first of
these articles in a crude condition which enter
into the various processes of domestic industry,
includes and is chiefly made UP OF manufactured
fbres silk, wool, crude india rubber, hides
and skins pig tin and certain chemicals. The
second ARTICLES wholly or partially manufactured
for materials in manufacturing" includes
wood. leather, furs cement, yarns, oils, dyes and
dye woods and certain chemicals. The three other
classes of imports foodstuffs, articles manu-
factured ready for consumption and articles Of
voluntary use. luxuries, etc OF the two classes
designated manufacturers materials that which
includes only articles in crude condition is by far
the largest being 1900 3O22641O5, against $222
65777 1S99 nearly 40 per greater than in
any preceding year, while the class which includes
articles wholly or partially manufactured for use
in manufacturing amounts to SSS, ,435,5i9. against
ssS 903 in 1898 and s109132526 in 1891 The share
which articles in a crude condition for use in
manufacturing form of the total imports is con-
stantly increasing, and in the year just ended
formed by far the largest total and largest per-
centage Of the grand total in the history Of Aeri-
can foreign commerce. Of the total imports OF the
year manufacturers materials. including the two
classes above named, show an increase OF aO7S75,-
SOS over those of the preceding year while the
other three classes-foodstuffs, manufactures and
luxuries-show an increase of only $45 1904S3
the preceding year. thus showing that over two
thirds Of the increased importatons of the year
in manufacturers materials.
GROWTH IN EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES
While manufacturers materials show the largest
growth in American imports. manufactured
ticles show the largest growth in exports.
The exports of manufactures in 1900 amounted
1892 2S4 366 against 1893 55S in the preceding
year increase OF s92 6OSs0S. while in earlier
year had the Increase amounted TO much
Manufactures
total expectations in 1900 against 2S 3 cent
in 1899 per in 1897 2314 per IN 1895.
"a per cent in 1885, IS cent in 1870 and r. 7s
cent In 1865 Exports Of manufactures In 1860 were
s4O4bSs2 and 1900 S43 2s4 1856 while the
ports in 1850 were $535e057 and in 1900 ST. 1894 1851
Thus while the total exports of 1900 four times
great in 1850 those OF manufactures alone
ten times much in 1860. In that year
manufactures formed 1916 per cent Of total
exports. while IN 1900 they form 31.54 per cent OF
decade which
the yearleOO the growth in exports of manufactures
equally striking. In 1891 the total exports
amounted ssS4. $40 and those of manufactures
s6s 927 35 the total exports for 1900 thus
being only 50 per cent excess OF 1891, while the
exports of manufactures are $50 per cent in excess
of that year
This rapid growth in the expectation OF manu-
features is particularly gratifying when compared
with that Of other nations which have heretofore
chiefly supplied the worlds markets in manufact-
ured goods. In 1860, already indicated, the
United States total exports of manufactures were
345 s92 in that year those OF the United Kingdom
were S63 35 22 by 1870 exports Of manufactures
had increased to $6s 279764 and those Of United
Kingdom 500 ,16S 224; In 1880 exports Of manu-
factures from the United States s1O2 S56 O15
and those from the United Kingdom were s97O6S1-
400; in 1890 exports Of manufactures the United
States were &l5l.1O2876. and those from the United
Kingdom sl.OS9.1557 1871. In 1900 exports of
manufactures from the United States had reached
s482, ,2S4 3s6, while those from the United Kingdom
$685. 325 Thus American exports OF manufactures
ten times much in 1860. while those
of the United Kingdom only one and one-haIf
times great in 1860.
COMMERCE WITH GRAND DIVISIONS
A study OF imports from the grand divisions of
the world illustrates the growth in the proportion
of imports which is being supplied by the tropical
and sub-tropical parts of the world. In 1880 the
imports from Europe $449 9S7 266, and in 1gO0
$40 500 $50; from North America imports in 1890
$l4S 36S 706 and in 1900 s12s S5 from South
America, from which American imports are almost
exclusively tropical and sub-tropicaI the imports
Of 1890 800 COS IA and in 1900 $ 635 1874 from
Asia whose supplies sent to the United States are
chiefly tropical and sub-tropicaI in character i'm
ports 1890 $3.50 S3S and in 1900 3S9 S1702s
from Oceania, lying almost exclusively in the trop-
ics the imports 1890 s2S $50 56S and in 1900
S34. e,O2; and from Africa from which imports are
almost exclusively tropical and sub-tropical i'm
ports in 1890 Al and in 1900 S1,2l7116
IMPORTS FROM THE ISLANDS.
That large proportion of the growing demand
for tropical and sub-tropcaI products can be sup
piled by the islands which have recently come
into closer relations with the United States is Illus
trated by the statistics showing the value OF the
imports into the United States from Cuba Porto
Rico Hawaii and the Philippine Islands in each
year from 1890 to 1900. In 1890 the imports from
these islands aggregated over $50 100000 and
reached aO0O00Oo0 under the increase which fol-
lowed the reciprocity treaty with Spain falling to
less than $40Oo000 in 1897 and 1885, and again
reaching over s60O00OOO in 1900, while return to
existed in Cuba and Porto Rico in 1892 and 1893
would probably again bring the total imports into
the United States from the four groups of islands
to above $l00O00,000 with prospect OF further