The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-08-18
WONDERFUL GROWTH
Of IkERIci's TRADE.
Preceding Years Sur
passed by Three Hun
dred Millions.
An ARRAY Of FACTS AND FIGURES.
EXPORTS BREAK ALL RECORDS
AND ARE MORE WIDELY
DISTRIBUTED.
In Imports Manufacturer Materials
Show Increase Blu. Ali Other
Articles Show q Small
Ter Percentage
Al ARRAY OF FACTS AND FIGURES.

reau OF statistics upon the foreign COM
merce of the United States during the
year ending June 30, 1900, has been
completed and Will form a part OF The
June summary OF commerce and fin
ance, which will make its appearance
during the coming week The report
shows the total imports OF merchandise
during the year were sSt9, go; the
total exports 81, 1851 The prin-
cipaI features of the report, emitting
the statistical tables, are as follows:
Four great facts characterize the for
eign commerce of the United States
in 1900, the closing year Of the decade
and century,
1. The total commerce of the year
surpassed by s31s, 729,2 $50 that of any
preceding year, and for the first time in
our history exceeds $4,000, 000,000
2. The exports exceed those OF any
preceding year, and have been more
widely distributed throughout the world
than ever before.
3. Manufacturers materials were
more freely imported than ever before,
and formed a larger share of the total
imports than on any former occasion.
T. Manufactured articles were more
freely exported than ever before, and
formed larger share of the total ex-
ports than on any former occasion.
In exports every great class of ar
ticles showed a larger total than in the
preceding year; in imports every class
except manufacturers materials show
ed a smaller percentage of the total
than in the preceding year, while man
ufacturers' materials showed a much
larger total and larger percentage CT
the grand total than in any former
year.
MANUFACTURERS MATERIALS.
Two OF the five great classes of i'm
ports are exclusively manufacturers
materials. The first of these, articles
in crude condition which enter into
the various processes Of domestic in
dustry," includes and is. chiefly made
up of manufactured fbres, raw silk,
wool, crude India rubber, hides and
skins, pig tin and certain chemicals.
The second, articles wholly or par
TALLY manufactured for use as materi-
ais in manufacturing, includes wood.
leather, furs, cement, yarns, oils, dyes
and dyewoods and certain chemicals.
The other three classes of imports are
foodstuffs, articles manufactured ready
for consumption, and articles of volun-
tary use, luxuries, etc. OF the two
classes designated as manufacturers
that which include only ar
ticles in crude condition is by far the
largest, being, in 1900. $500, 264 JOG,
against s222, 657,774 in 1899, or nearly
10 per cent greater than in any pre-
ceding year; while the class which in
cludes articles wholly or partially man
ufactured for use in Misunderstanding
to SIS, 433, 54S, against SOS, 1885,
9O3 in 1893, and s109, 1872 ,526 in 1891.
OF the total imports of the year, manu-
facturers' materials, including the two
classes above named, show an increase
Of $107. 1915, 69S over those of the pre-
ceding year. while the other three
classes, foodstuffs, manufactures and
Injuries, show an increase of but s45,-
100, 4S3 over the preceding year, thus
that over two-thirds of the in
creased importations of the year are in
materials.
While manufacturers materials show
he largest growth in our imports, man
fractured articles show the largest |
growth in our exports. The total tx
ports of manufactures in 1900 amount |
ID to $4s2 ,2S4, $50, against $685., SIS, 55S |
n the preceding year, an increase CT |
80, sos sos. while in no earlier year had |
he increase amounted to so much as
81. 100000. Manufactures formed 33 - |
yer cent of the total expectations in |
500. against 2S.1S per cent in 1899, |
6.S7 per cent in 1897, 23.14 per cent IN |
SS5, 20.25 per cent in 1885. Is per cent |
n 1870. and 1916 per cent in 1860. Ex-
orts of manufactures in 1860 were $40
As .S92. and in 1900, s432, 2S4 800. while !
he total exports in 1860 were 1888, 575.-
81. and in 1900. 1884 1851. Thus,
While the total exports OF 1900 are four
lines as great as in 1860. those OF /
alone are ten times as /
much as in 1860. In that year manu-
actures formed but 12.16 per cent Of
'ur total exports, while in 1900 they
orm Sl.54 per cent of our total exports
wen in the decade which ends with
he year 1900. the growth In exports
I manufactures has been equally |
triking. In 1891 the total exports
mounted to $SSs.is0. $40. and those Of
alone to sl6S, 9s7.31S The
otal exports for 1900 thus being but
0 per cent in excess of 1891. while the
xports Of manufactures are $50 per
ent in excess Of that year
This rapid growth in the expectation
manufactures is particularly graft
ring when compared with that Of
ther nations which have heretofore
hiedy supplied the worlds markets in
Manufactured goods. Thus, our ex-
ortS Of manufactures are now ten
INES - much az in 1850. while those
I the United Kingdom are but one AMI
ne-half times as great as in 1850. Il
A study OF our imports from the
rand divisions Of the world illustrates
ae growthfn the proportion of our I'M
orts which Is being supplied BIZ he
'opical and sub-tropical parts OF the
orld- In 1880 the imports from Eu-
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