Evening star., 1901-06-29
Present Will Be the Banner Year in
Our History.
INCREASE Is IN FARM PRODUCTS
Falling Off Shown in Shipped
Manufactures.
THE CAUSES SSED

Exports from the United States I'm the
fiscal year 1901. now about to end, will
probably reach $1.5O0.O0O,O0O. the highest
point ever recorded for a single year in the
history of our export trade. For the eleven
months ending with May, 1901, the total
exports were 81. .3S5. .013 595. being double
those Of the corresponding period Of 1889.
and 500, 100000 In excess of the total for
the eleven months of last year. which
broke all previous records. Taking the
commerce of the eleven months ending
with May of various years as the basis of
comparison, the figures of the treasury bu-
reau of statistics show that during the pc
riod under review our exports in 1889
amounted to s694. 1873 S04: in 1894. to sS34.-
636 OS1 in 1889 to 81 1870 go 0IJ: in 1900, to
81. .2S5. $50. 125 and in the present year. Is
already stated 81 1885,, ,013. 595; while for the
full fiscal year our total exports give prom
ise Of exceeding one and a half billion of
dollars as the eleven months figures fall
only s115OO0,O0O short OF that amount. and
the monthly expectations of merchandise
from the United States has exceeded $780,
100000 since March 1 Of this year.
Distribution of Exports.
The distribution Of our exports during the
year among the grand divisions. basing the
estimate upon the percentages for ten
months already available, will be in about
the following proportions: To Europe.
81, ,155, 100000, as against Sl.o40 100000 last
year; to North America, s195,0p.0O. as
against $1S7. 800 0o9 last year; to South
America s44,oo9,90o. as compared with
SIS, 900, 600 in 1900: to Asia, s4S 0O0.eo0,
against nearly $65,0OO.O00 in 1890: to
Oceania, S36,0o0Oo0 as against sB,e0.O0
last year. and to Africa, S26,91.D00
against st9.Jo0.0t0 in the preceding year.
1t will be observed that the only decreases
will be In our exports to Asia, where un-
settled conditions in China have seriously
affecte ed trade, and to Oceania. from which
Hawaii has been omitted as a foreign coun-
try since it's organization as a territory of
the United States
Increase in Farming Exports.
To products of agriculture is due the
credit for the greater portion OF the in
crease in our exports during the present
year. In the ten months for which de-
tailed figures are available products OF
agriculture were valued at SSH, ,591. .955.
and formed 5.53 per cent of the total do
mestic exports; last year they amounted
to S717372,746. and formed but 6221 per
cent of the total domestic exports. For
the same period Of this year manufactures
aggregated $3.50 9.310614 and formed q. 40
per cent of the domestic exports, while
last year they were S352,671,20 ,208, and form
ed 5000 per cent of the value of domestic
exports. The exports OF agricultural prod
ucts for the full fiscal year will be about
S985 900 900. as against $S35 .123 last
year, while those OF manufactures will be
about $405. .OOO. 900 as compared with $433
s51 758 last year.
This decrease in the expectation of man.
ufactures is due chiefly to the following
causes: One. the war in China, to which
country our exports consisted largely of
manufactured articles, and to which mar
ket alone our sales in ten months decreased
from S1S. .474. 703 in 1900 to 81, ,7O6, 13S in tue
present year; two. the transfer of Hawaii
from the list OF foreign countries to classi-
f1cation a customs district Of the United
States, necessitating the omission from our
exports Of all goods passing between that
island and the United States and thus de-
creasng by approximately s15.0OOG0 our
exports for the year. and. three, the omis-
sion for similar reasons of merchan ndise
passing between the United States and
Porto Rico, to which island We sent In
the ten months of the present year mer-
chandise valued at S5.G11. 5S3, of which sum
manufactures formed an important part,
cotton goods alone representing over a
million dollars.
Growth of Exports.
The following table shows the exports
from the United States in the eleven
months ending with May in each year since
1889: