The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-08
EXPORTS 70 THE COLONIES
Growing Commerce With the Phil
ippines and Porto Rico.
Figures of the Trade with Hawaii
Not ObtninabIe. But AN Increase
Undoubtedly Exists-Littie Change
I'm the yniue of Cuban Shipments.


Exports from the United States to Por-
to Rico and the Philippines continue to
grow. To Cuba there is no perceptible
increase in 1891 compared with 1900 To
Hawaii the exports are no longer record
ed, because of the refusal of exporters to
continue their statements since the an
nexation of Hawaii and its establishment
as customs district of the United States.
The latest figures of the Treasury Blu
reau of Statistics show that the exports
from the United States to Porto Rico in
the eight months ending with February.
1901, We're N,2?5.953, against 2,219.72l in
the corresponding months of the proceed
ing fiscal year; s1,S26,6 63 in the CORE
spending period ending with February,
1899. and 81 ,200.067 in the corresponding
period ending with February, 1898.
To the Philippines our exports in the
eight months ending with February, 1901,
were s2,76I,SSl, against $l,7Ol ,4G3 in the cor
responding period of the preceding fiscal
year; $ll7O2l in the same period of the
fiscal year 1899, and 500, 235 in the same
period ending with February. 1888.
To Cuba our exports for the eight
months ending with February of the
present year were 81, 2S6,752. against ST.
172,4I2 in the corresponding period of the
preceding year. sl0142 $40 in the eight
months ending with February, 1899, and
81 IS, 223 in the same period ending with
February, 1898.
To the Hawaiian Islands the exports
cannot, as already indicated, be measured
for the present fiscal year, but there is
every reason to believe that they are in
cTeasng, as are those to Porto Rico and
the Philippines. In the eight months
ending with February, 1900 they in
creased so per cent over the correspond
ing period of the preceding fiscal year,
and now that commerce between the
islands and the United States is absolute
ly unrestricted it is not unreasonable to
assume that the figures have materially
increased.
The total exports to Cuba, Porto Rico,
and the Philippines in the eight months
ending with February. 1901, amounted to
s24 800, $50, against 81, ,596 in the CORE
spending period of the fiscal year 1890.
S11 ,5SS, e33 for a like period in 1899, and
SS,95S6 25 for a like period in the fiscal
year 1895.
Could the figures of our exports to
Hawaii in the present fiscal year be in
Guided it is probable that the total ex-
ports from the United States to the four
to S36 600 in the eight months under
consideration, against $30,0o0,000 in the
corresponding months of the fiscal year
1900, 81, 600. 900 for the same period of 1899,
81. 0e1, go for the corresponding period of
1895, and $1,000 600 for the same period of
the fiscal year 1896. Thus the exports TO
these islands have trebled since Febru-
airy, 1898 have doubled since 1899, and
have increased % per cent in the past
year. though to Cuba there has been, in
the last year. no material Increase.
Cuba's importers seem less fsvorably
disposed toward the markets of the United
States at the latest accounts than in the
preceding year. The latest report of the
Insular Bureau of the War Department,
which is in charge of the Cuban statis-
tics. covers the nine months ending with
September 1909. In that period Cuba S
imports were $50. los, 702 and of that sum
so 525, $50 or IS per cent came from the
United States and 81. $50, 239 from Europe;
while in the corresponding months of the
preceding year Cuba's total imports were
s54. 6S6, 747 OF which $2S,69i,o30, or 81 per
cent came from the United States and
$40, 49,. $50 from Europe.
The following table shows the exports
from the United States to Cuba Porto
Rico, and the Philippine Islands in the
eight months ending with February, in
zach wear from 1895 to 1901: