New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-28
A YEAR OF PROSPERITY.
FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR 1899 MAKES
SPLENDID SHOWING.
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Washington. jan 27.-An official statement from
the Treasury Bureau of Statistics became public
yesterday. which makes it practicable to snow Tor
the first time the more important details OF the FOR
eign trade OF the United States for the calendar
year 1899 Formerly, and so recently as 1897, such
a statement relating to the trade and commerce
of calendar year not usually available un-
til about the middle of the following February 1t
is now furnished two or three weeks earlier for
which credit is due TO the chief of the Bureau
o. P. Austin.
One Of the most pleasant features of the state
ment made public to-day is the splendid showing
made by the exports of manufactured goods al
though the statement as a whole is a very satls-
factory one. Tho figures of exports, the prod
ucts of manufacture, for the year made the mag
ncent total of $780, 7S7 S1 being S2 S63O00 or 259
pescent, more than in the calendar year 1895, and
average of more than SS1, 900 month"; or at
the rate of more than 81 100000 day for every day
in the year, Sundays included. These exports also
constituted a larger percentage of the total ex-
ports than in any previous year, being SO4, as
compared with 24.9 per cent foi the calendar year
1888 and $50 per for 1897 In the 1899 the
monthly increase was steady and marked, and the
total Of s5S0SSo for January rose to $SSe02o5S in
December.
Another pleasant feature of the statement is that
the imports of materials for manufacturers use
increased in a remarkable ratio, the total of
articles in crude condition" for domestic indus.
tries having risen from $1S7s23OOO in 1898 to S29,
$1,000 in 1892 and the imports of articles manu-
1T 600 in 1898 to s6,376,0O0 in 1899.
PEOPLE USING MORE LUXURIEs.
That the general prosperity of the country has
steadily improved is indicated by the greater i'm
portation OF manufactured articles ready for con-
sumption. as well as of luxures and articles Of
voluntary The former increased from s1o4, So
900 in 1898 to s11sS3sOO 1Sss and the latter from
$50 $4,000 to s107.6O4.o00.
The aggregate value Of all mportations for 1899
amounted TO s79S, 1851, compared with 1884 9S4
48 1898 The percentage of articles imported free
OF duty from 1926 to 1891, and the duties col
lected from customs from $1S2.S10,55e to S224
o7131. The total imports in 1899 amounted to $685.
455n and the exports to $27 1851 Of which S22-
SOS 6S4 foreign merchandise re-exported.
This doing fairly well under tariff which
the Democrats prophesied two years ago would cur
tail the revenues of the Government and exclude
American manufactured and other products from
the markets Of the world.
Some of the articles of imports which showed
increase, compared with the previous year.
Cotton goods. from s23 5S4 954 to $86572988; Manila
aemP fr9% s IN 6 to ass Thh TaS
600 to sS9S000 although the quantity less than
india rubber crude from s25 ss7 go to $$i2sSSO
manufactures a Of iron and steel from GOO to
lectures n Of g9ld and syeP from 81 g 909 to ST.
features of silk from SIS 900 to 81 sugars
raw, from ST. 9S4 goo TO sos i24 0OO tin blocks bars
IS 900 to $1 $4,000 wines from Sc go $780,
s1s,124.OOO. Imports Of woollen manufactures fell
from s15.2O7.OOO to $14,596 600.
The total exports of domestic merchandise in
creased about $2OOOO0OO There was large increase
in many items and a decrease in others, shown
by the following figures:
Agricultural implements, increase from S9,073,000
to $S 5 000 cattle decrease from $685. 46 600 $780,
6S5 900; increase from S3l50O0 to 2,72S000
cotton raw decrease from 1922 6S 900 to S91 000
wheat decrease from S36420O0 to $751; 447 900; wheat
-four decrease from 2,O66000 $500 000; cars
s. 0C0 cycles, decrease from ST. 092 600 to 81 S20000
chemicals. drugs and dyes, increase from 49, 1872 600
Sill $4,000; coal and coke increase from $2 900
to $15,7130 600; copper, ingots bars plates ETC.. in
from $33598 900 to SAL 2500 900; cotton
factures increase from SIS $4,000 So COS 000 fer
tiliZers increase from 5115000 to $,S01000;
features of bres, increase from s. 662 900 to s21s
49, 900; instruments and apparatus, including tele-
graph telephone and other electric, increase from
S3Sl7,000 to S. 695, 600; manufactures of iron and
Steel increase from S2 200 sos $50 O00 leather
sole increase from s6,440000 Sc 1884, 900; leather
other increase from s12 600 to S15S6.0O0; boots
and shoes increase from 900 to So 668 900; malt
liquors, increase from $1O03OOo S2145OO0; naval
and meal increase from $3 $4,000 SIS 600; oils
mineral refined. increase from 900 to $685.,
425000 cottonseed oil. increase from $11 1851 900 to
2476O00; parafne and wax increase from Sc 1862 900
to S65000; meat and dairy products, increase from
s74 900 TO 1882 $1,000; Seeds increase from S.
N1,O00 to 1000; tobacco manufactured, in
from s23 $4,000 $29 900; wood and wood