Evening star., 1901-08-03
EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES
An Apparent Decrease for the Fiscal
Year 1901.

| Year 1901.
Exports of manufactures from the United
States show, an apparent decrease of $23,.
342 ,5S in the fiscal year 1901, compared
| with 1900. The detailed figures having Jus,
been completed by the treasury bureau OF
statistics, it is now practicable to analyze
this decrease and see how much of it is
real and how much of that which is real
| is due to temporary causes
AS has already been explained by the
bureau of statistics, the export figures OF
1901 do not include the exports to the Ha-
Wa1ian Islands or to Porto Rico, which are
now customs districts of the United States
The shipments of domestic products to
Porto Rico were during the year, 81, Sol 917
and including the foreign with the do
| mestic products exceeded $7,OOO,OOo For
the shipments from the United States to
the Hawaiian Islands there are no official
statistics, the exporters having taken ad-
vantage of the letter of the law and re-
fused to give this information to the bu-
|, reau of statistics; but the collector of Gus
toms at Honolulu estimates the shipments
to those islands from the United States
during the year at fully $4,000 600 This
makes SIT 100000, therefore, which should
De added to the export statement in an
attempt to compare the figures of the pres
ent year with those of 1909. An ANALYSIS
OF the exports from the United States to
Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands last
manufactured, and assuming this as a
basis of the calculations for the present
year, there should be added $4,000, GOO to
the statement Of manufactures exported
from the United States. bringing the total
| up to $42S,OOO.OOO, or only $5,OO0,OOO below
that of last year. The exports to China
from the United States fell off about $5, ,OOO-
600 in 1901. compared with 190O the fall, of
course, being entirely due to temporary
causes. An examination of our exports to
China in 1900 shows that practically all
are manufactures, so that the temporary
reduction OF exports to China, due to the
unsettled conditions in that country, cou-
pied with the absence of export statistics
for Hawaii and Porto Rico, fully equals
the entire decrease in our exports of man
ufa ctureS.
factured exports, however, there is a ma
terial reduction In the value of exports in
1901 compared with 1900 These articles
are O copper, reduction of sl4, SOC, 900:
(2) iron and steel, a decrease of 81, 500 Geo,
which Is entirely accounted for by the alb
sence of figures on the exports to Hawaii,
to which the exports of iron and steel alone
from the United States last year were over
So, ZOO; (3) mineral oils. in which there
is reduction of S3, 800 600 in value and
which is due entirely to a reduction in the
export price of oils, the number of gal
Ions exported having actually increased
from S17,599, 400 gallons in 1900 to $40, 49S-
964 gallons in 1901; D cotton manufac-
lures, reduction of $3,7OO,OOO, which is
entirely due to the temporary falling off
In our exports to China the decrease in
exports Of cotton goods to China in 1901,
compared with 1900, being S41S3OOO, or
more than the entire decrease in total ex-
ports of cotton manufactures. Taking the
entire available list of exports of manu-
factures. numbering about 200 distinct ar
ticles or classes of articles, it is found that
90 per cent show an increase in value as
compared with last year. while in a con-
siderable number of those showing a de-
crease the loss Is entirely due to the re-
ductlon In price per unit the actual guam
titles being in several cases greater and
the values less than last year.
The following table shows the exports in
l9OO and 1901 of all manufactures in which
the total exports in 1907 exceeded 81 600. 900: