The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-08-30
NATIONAL EXPORTS.

The New York Maritime Register
says that exports of manufacturers
from the United states show an appar-
ent decrease of 323.342,5s3 in the fiscal
year 1901 compared with 1900 The de-
tailed figures having just been COM
pleted by the Treasury Bureau Of Sta-
tistics. IL is now practicable to analSze
this decrease and see how much of II 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
Hawaiian Islands or to Porto Rico,
which are now customs districts OF the
United States. The shipments of do
mestc products to Porto Rico We're dur
ing the year Sc. SCI ,9l7. and including the
foreign with the domestic products ex-
ceeded 5000 900. For the shipments
from the United States to the Hawaiian
Islands there are no official statistics.
the exporters having taken advantage
of the. letter OF the law and refused to
give this Information to the Bureau of
Statistics; but the Collector Of Customs
at Honolulu estimates the shipments to
these islands from the United states
during the year at fully $40. 000. 900 This
makes $4,000, 900 therefore, which
should be added to the export state
ment in an attempt to compare the fig
ures of the present year with those OF
1900. An analysis of the exports from
the United states to Porto Rico and
the Hawaiian Islands last year shows
that fully two-thirds were manufac-
lures, and assuming this as a basis Of
the calculations for the present year.
there should be added SIS, 00O, 600 to the
statement OF manufactures, exported
from the United States. bringing the
total up to 42S million dollars, or only
Ave millions below that OF last year.
The exports 10 China from the United
States fell off about &5,0OO,0 900 in 1901,
compared with 1900. 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 re-
duction of exports to China due to the
unsettled conditions in that country.
coupled with the absence of export
statistics for Hawaii and Porto Rico,
fully equals the entire decrease in our
exports of manufactures.
In four important articles of our man
ufactured exports, however, there Is
material reduction in the value of ex-
ports in 1901, compared with 1900. These
articles are: % copper, reduction OF
Sll, 500, 900: ,2) iron and steel. a decrease
Of $4,000 900. which Is entirely accounted
for by the absence of figures on the
exports to Hawaii to which the ex-
ports Of iron and steel alone from the
United States last year were over S.
900, 900; 80 mineral oils. in which there
lis a reduction of 81, 500, 900 in value, and
which is due entirely to n reduction IN
! the export price of oils, the number OF
] gallons exported having actually In
creased from SIT 500. 499 gallons in 1900
to $40, 49,, 1854 gallons in 1901; az cot
/ ton manufactures. a reduction of 49,,
/ 200, 600, which is entirely due to the
| temporary falling off in our exports to
China, the decrease in exports of cot
ton goods to China in 1901 compared
with 1900 being 81, $4,000. or more than
the entire decrease in total exports OF
cotton manufactures. Taking the en-
tire available list of exports of manu-
features, numbering about 200 distinct
articles or classes of articles, II is found
that Go per cent show an increase in
| value, as compared with last year,
while in considerable number of
those showing a decrease the loss is
entirely due to the reduction in price
per unit, the actual quantities being in
several cases greater and the values
less than last year