The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-17
THREE TINES rs GREAT
Exports of American Products
TO Porto Rico Increased.
FLOUR EXPORTS REDUCED
Domestic Merchandise Is the
Principal Export So Far.
FLOUR EXPORTS REDUCED

washington. Aug. 1e.-Exports OF Amer
lean products to Porto Rico in the fiscal
year just ended were. according TO the
figures OF the treasury bureau Of Stats
tics. more than three times as great as
they average when Porto Rico was under
the Spanish nag, and more than 50 per
cent in excess of those prior 70 the enact
ment OF the Porto Rican tariff law which
went into effect May l. 1870. The total
domestic exports from the United States
to Porto Rico in the fiscal year 1897. which
entirely preceded the beginning Of hostil-
tiles with Spain, were 81 go. $50. IN the
fiscal year 1900 ten months OF which pre-
ceded the date at which the Porto Rican
tariff went into effect, our domestic ex-
ports to Porto Rico were Si26o.S92. In
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1901. all OF
which was under the Porto Rican act
which levied L per cent of the regular
Dingley law rates on goods passing into
that island from this country, the total
domestic exports from the United States
to Porto Rico were 81. Ss1 .917. These fig
ures include only exports OF domestic
merchandise and do not include foreign
merchandise brought into the United
States and reported TO Porto Rico. which
presumably amounted 10 about a half
million dollars, since the Porto Rican
statement of imports from the United
States for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1901. show the grand total. including do
nestle and foreign. to be s7.414,502.
Porto Rico imported IN the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1901 goods amounting 10
So S57. 200 in value, and Of this s7,I4.502
came from the United States. the total
from other countries being s., s52, rs. Of
this 81 .952, 72S, imported from countries
other than the United States, the value
of SS0S, Al, was from Spain; $374,S37 from
the United Kingdam; 1924. 067 from Cana
da; s166, 723 from France; S152,201 from
Germany, and SCI SIS from the Neither
lands
The total exports Of the island during
the fiscal year, 1901, were Ss.s63, SIC. Of
which the value OF S5,e61, 137 was sent 10
the United States. and $s.Oo2,679 to other
countries OF the latter sum, the value
Of s., 11O,O4s was 10 Cuba; s596O23 to Spain;
$3.50 to France; ssfi. 500 to Canada: *14o,-
~ to Germany, and SSss95 to the Neither
lands.
The growth In exports from the United
States to Porto Rico has been IN nearly
all the articles entering into that COM
merce, but especially in manufactures.
Exports of cotton cloth increased from
five and one-half milf n yards to over
twenty-five millions; boots and shoes from
twenty-three thousand pairs to forty
eight thousand; books. maps and en-
cravings. from fourteen thousand to over
forty thousand dollars; candles. from one
hundred and eleben thousand TO three
hundred and seventy-hve thousand
pounds; chemicals, drugs ard medicines
from ffty-nine thousand to eighty-n nine
thousand dollars; wearing apparel from
twenty-three thousand to one hundred
and one thousand dollars; vegetable oils
from hfty-three thousand TO sixty-six
thousand dollars; soap from seventeen
thousand 10 twenty-seven thousand dol
lars. and manufacturers OF wood from
forty-nine thousand TO one hundred thous-
and dollars.
There was a slight reduction IN exports
Of -four. probably due 20 the very heavy
increased expectation Of rice from this
country. which advanced from less than
five million pounds to over thirty-six mil
lion pounds Provisions increased nearly
one hundred thousand dollars during the
year, the exports during 1900 having been
ss70.ss7, and those of 1901. ss61,o1 and re-
fined sugar increased in expectation from
Sc. 211 IN 1900. to s14,6s4 IN 1901.
The following table shows the principal
domestic exports from the United states
to Porto Rico IN the fiscal years 1887
rarT.