Evening star., 1900-12-10
ENORMOUS GROWTH SHOWN
EXPORTS TO CUBA AND NEW INSU-
LAR POSSESSIONS.
Increased From $17 900, 900 In 1907 to
$4,000, 900 In 19OO-An Inter-
estfnE Presentation.

Exports from the United States to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine. Hawaiian
and Samoan Islands will aggregate $50,0OO,-
600 in the year 1900, against $41,OOO,OO0 In
1899, 100000 in 1898. and sl7,O00.0O0 in
1897. This enormous growth is shared by
each Of the islands named but is especially
apparent in the case OF Porto Rico, to
which the exports in the year 1900 under
the new Porto Rican act will show an in
crease Of about 30 per cent, as compared
with last year, and 100 per cent as COM
pared with preceding years.
The above figures are necessarily esti-
mates so far as they relate to November
and December of the present year, but a
study of the actual figures of the preceding
months Of 1900 and the corresponding
months OF 1899 and 1898 justifies esti-
mate which brings the exports to Porto
Rico in the calendar year 1900 up to $5,-
10000; to Cuba, $26,000.00O; to the Philip
pines $3.50o,0O0; to the Hawaiian Islands,
$l5OOO,0OO, and to the Samoan Islands and
Guam. $2O0.0OO, making the grand total of
$50 100000 of exports to these islands In
1900 compared with SAL ,5S1 .OS4 in 1899, $19,-
Ill., ,342 in 1898 and s16,922,3 ,305 in 1897.
In every case our exports to these islands
in the year 1900 will exceed those in pre-
ceding years. To Cuba the exports of the
year will be double the average annual ex-
ports to that island except during the fiscal
years 1892, 1893 and 1894, when the reci-
procity treaty with Spain largely increased
our sales to that island. To Porto Rico the
exports of the year will be double those of
any preceding year, except 1899, and will
exceed that year by 80 per cent. To the
Hawaiian Islands, estimating figures Of the
closing months of the year upon those OF
the earlier months and other obtainable
data, the exports of the year are more than
double those Of any preceding year except
1899.
To the Philippines the figures for 1900 will
be double those Of 1899 and more than ten
times the highest figure in any earlier year.
To the Samoan Islands the total will be
double that Of any preceding year. Com
pairing our exports to the islands above
mentioned, with those in the great recl-
procity year 1898. when our exports to Cuba
were double those of years Immediately pre-
that our total in 1900 greatly exceeds that
of the greatest of the reciprocity years.
The total exports to Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands in 1893
were $2s,O O47, and, as above indicated
will in 1900. amount to $5O0O0,00O in round
terms.
The following table shows the total ex-
ports from the United States to Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Hawaiian, Philippine and Sa-
moan Islands in each calendar year since
1897, the figures for November and Decem-
Der, 19OO being estimated:
1897. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SIC. .922, 3o5
1893 Observation-Disclosures. 19, Ill ,342
1899 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Al ,5S1 ,OS4
1890 (estimated) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. sc, 100, 600
November and December.
The following table shows the imports
from and exports to Porto Rico in each
calendar year beginning with 1894 1t will
be seen that the exports to the island have
enormously increased in 1900 compared
with any preceding year and especially with
the years preceding 1S99 the increase being
30 per cent as compared with 1880 and
more than 100 per cent as compared with
the average year prior to that time: