The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-28
EXPORTS TO THE ORIENT.
TRADE WITH ASIA AND OCEANICA
QUADRUPLED IN SEVEN YEARS.
Increase From S27 100000 In 1898 to
Over s1OO.OOO.OOO in the Present
Fiscal Year-AII Classes of Goods
Enter Into the Statement.

Special Dispatch TO the Post-Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Exports to
Asia and Oceanica in the fiscal year which
ends with the month of June will. for the
hrst time In our history, exceed 800 ,000.-
ooc In no part OF the world has our ex-
port trade grown with such amazing
rapidity, with the single exception of At
rica. In 1888 our total exports to all Asia
ana oceania amounted to only s27. i2i S3l,
so that in the fiscal year now about to
end they will be about four times as great
as those of. eight years earlier. Imports
from that part OF the world are also grow
ing rapidly because OF the large increase
In the share of our sugar supply, which
now comes from the islands of the Pacific.
More than one-half the sugar imported
into tho United States now comes from
the East Indies and Hawaiian islands.
Of the 2,S9l ,S06,559 pounds imported into
the United States in the nine months end
ing with March, 1900, 1.553. ALE. 1897 pounds
came from the East Indies and the Phil
ippine and Hawaiian islands, the amount
from the East Indies alone being 1,14s,025, :
446 pounds; from the Hawaiian islands.
800. 500 400 pounds. and from the Philippines
40, iso,42 The quantity imported from the
Philippines in the nine months ending
with March, 1900, is three times as much
as in the corresponding months of 1898,
and from the East Indies It is two and
one-half times as much as in the CORE
spending period OF 1898.
Agricultural Machinery.
The growth in exports to Asia and
Oceania is chiefly in cotton, breadstuffs.
provisions and manufactures. Exports of
agricultural machinery to British Aus
tralasia in the nine months ending with
March, 1900. were ss09. 1923 against s34a $50
in the corresponding months of 1893. Ex-
ports of -four to China In the nine months
ending with March, 1900, was as .s61 bar
rels. against 1856 barrels in the same
months of 1898, to Japan All. 40 barrels
against l0I ,40l barrels in the same months
of 1898, and to Hongkong 1909, 2iS barrels
against 647,6ss barrels in the same months
Of 1898 Carriages and cars to Australia
amounted to sl2,254 against s251, 500 in the
corresponding months of 1898: cotton
cloth to China in the nine months ending
with March, 1900, was 156. s3e 255 yards
against II, 800 SIG yards in the correspond
ing months OF 1898. Raw cotton exported
to Japan amounted In the nine months
ending with March. 1900. TO s1l, 81. 96s as
against $5S43, 10 in the same months of
1885, Builders hardware exported to Asia
and Oceana in the nine months ending
with March. 1900 amounted to 81. 254 zoe.
an increase of 80 per cent over the same
months of 1895 while boots and shoes to
Asia and Oceania in the nine months end
ing with March, 1900 reached nearly $1,000 =
900 against $3.50, 900 in the same months
OF 1898
The following table shows the value of
our exports to Asia and Oceania and to
the principal divisions of that part of
the world in the nine months ending with
March, 1898 and 1900, respectively:
Japan