Evening star., 1901-07-19
EXPORTSOF MANUFACTURES
SLIGHT FALLING OF IN PAST FISCAL
YEAR.
Largely Due to Disturbed Conditions
in China-Increase in Many Lines
of Goods Shipped.

Exports of manufactures from the United
States appear to be slightly less in the fis-
cal year just ended than in the preceding
year, the figures for the eleven months end
ing with May showing an apparent reduce
tion of s14 ,565 ,O30. This statement, how
ever, is misleading, because the figures OF
the year 1901 do not include the exports to
Porto Rico and Hawaii, which were In
cluded in former years, and which are
largely manufactures and which will ag-
gregate $25.G00,O 600 for the fiscal year
Were it possible for the bureau of statis-
tics to include in its figures of exports OF
manufactures those sent to Hawaii ana
Porto Rico the figures of 1901 would diner
little from those of 1890.
Indeed an analysis of the general export
figures of manufactures for the eleven
months now available shows In most cases
an increase over 1900, and that the oe-
crease is confined to few articles ana IS
due in some cases at least, to 1all IN
price rather than a reduction In quantity.
In Illuminating oils, for instance the ex-
port figures for the eleven months endlng
with May 1901, show a decrease OF Sl,5Oo,-
600 in value but an increase of nearly 3D.
600 600 gallons. the accurate figures being,
for eleven months ending with May, l"o,
663, ,554, ,52S gallons; value. $5l, 'aS St, ano mo
for the eleven months of l9ol, Il'Sf]'<'o
gallons; value, $41 ,22S,4 49,
Copper and COttOns.
Two other great articles of our exports OF
manufactures show reduction In l9ol as
compared with 1900, namely, copper ana
cotton manufactures, and these lndeeo'
form the chief reduction in the grand 10
tails for the year 1901 as compared with
1900. In the latter, cotton manufactures.
the reduction is due entirely to temporary
conditions in China. The total exports or
cotton manufactures In the eleven months
ending with May, 1901, are Sl1,2'o.E9e,
against 500 OsO, ,5S3 in the corresponding
months of last year, a reduction of S4.Soo,-
2s4 while an examination of the figures OF
the exports of cotton cloth to China shows
that they fell from SS,2SS,946 In the eleven
months of 1850 to SS,oo4,f21 In the same
months of 1900, a reduction or So,Zc4,ZlS IN
this item alone.
Thus the reduction in the expectation of
cotton manufactures is entirely accounted
for in this single item of cotton cloths to
China, where the reduction is, of course,
but temporary, due to the disturbances in
that country during the first half Of the
fiscal year. The only remaining item In the
list of exported manufactures which shows
q fall of 63. 721 $40 pounds in quantity and
S11. .51S in value during the eleven
months ending with May, 1901. as COM
pared with the same period of 1900, though
the value of copper exports in 1901 is more
than Sc, ,OOO, 900 in excess of the correspond
ing months of 1899
Marked Increase I'm Exports.
In a large share of the important articles
Of our exports of manufactures the figures
of 1901 show a marked growth over those
of the preceding year, and of any preced-
ing year. In steel rails, for instance, the
exports during eleven months of 1901 are
more than 81, 100000 in excess of the same
months of last year; In pig iron there is an
increase of a million dollars; in bars and
rods of steel, an Increase of a million and
half; in electrical machinery, a million and
half; in boots and shoes, over million
dollars; in cottonseed oil, nearly two MIL
lions, in carriages and cars, two millions;
in chemicals more than million; in scien-
tifc instruments, million dollars; while,
as already indicated, in some cases where
the values have decreased there Is still an
increase in quantities, the apparent reduc-
ton being due to the fall in price. and not
to a reduction in the quantity exported.
American manufacturers have, therefore,
no occasion for anxiety regarding the slight
apparent decrease in the export figures of
manufactures In 1901, which is due % to
the fact that shipments of goods to Porto
Rico and Hawaii, aggregating more than
S2O.OOO,00O in the year just ended, are no
longer included in the list of exports, as
was formerly the case; (2) that the reduc-
tion of over S6.OOO,OOO In exports of cotton
cloth and mineral oils to China may be
looked upon as due entirely to temporary
causes; (3) that in numerous instances the
reduction is due to a fall in price, while
there has been actual increase in guam
tity; and (4) that in the principal item of
of any preceding year except 1906 In which
year the demand abroad for electrical
works was far beyond that Of any preced-
ing year.