Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-10-26
United States Continues to Lead Ex-
porting Nations
STATISTICS OF WORLDS COMMERCE
Monthly Domestic Shipments Aver
age $Lo24.6oo, 900.
THE INCREASES COMPARED

The United States continues at the head
OF the list OF the worlds exporting ma
tons. The comparative figures prepared
each month by the treasury bureau Of sta
tistics. exhibiting the imports and exports
Of each of the principal countries Of the
world. and the average per month during
given period, show that the domestic
exports from the United States are greater
than those from any other country, and
that the monthly average during the year
1901 has been higher than that Of any other
country.
For the nine months ending with Septem-
Der our exports of domestic products were
1,024, 605 ISL against sl,01S, S45, T6s from the
united kingdom, the next largest exporter
of domestic products. in the same period
While comparison during the same period
with Germany, France, Russia, Netherlands
and India, which follow In the order named
in the magnitude of their exports, is I'm
practicable because their fiscal years are
not coterminous with that Of the United
States, the totals of their exports during
the latest available years show not only
that the United States is clearly In the
lead as an exporter, but that the growth in
her exports has been more rapid than tina.
of any other great exporting nation
In the calendar year 1900. for which the
statistics of most exporting countries are
now available, the figures for the United
States were 81, 453 ,013 $50 of exports of do
nestle products, against s497. 263 1871 I'm 1875.
an increase of nearly 200 per cent during
that period, while those of Germany were
in 1900 81 $50 GIL 600, and in 1875 s6o7, o96 :
600, an increase of % per cent; and those of
the United Kingdom in 1900, 81 ,0op.
and in 1875, 81 0S7 ,497 600, an increase OF
about 40 per cent
shown by Monthly Averages.
The very latest available data for COM
pairing the commerce Of the United States
with that of other countries, however, are
furnished in a statement just prepared by
the treasury bureau of statistics, which
shows the monthly exports Of domestic
merchandise from each of the principal
countries Of the world during that period
Of its fiscal year for which statistics are
available. This shows that the monthly
average for the United States is greater
than that Of any other country. and that
the figures of 1901 show in the case of the
United States material increase over
those of 1900, while those of the united
kingdom and Germany show decrease.
The average monthly expectation of do
nestle merchandise from the United States
in the nine months ending with September,
1901, was S113 9S5, 900, against S112 $40. 40 in
the corresponding months of last year, An
increase Of about one and a half millions
per month. while those of the united king
dom were in the same months of 1901
S113, 285. 0S5 against Sis, 132. 533 in the same
| months Of 1900, showing a decrease Of
about five millions per month, and those Of
Germany were $S1. S31 1873 per month for the
six months ending with June 1901, against
SIS, 1913 for the corresponding months of
the preceding year, showing decrease of
little less than one million dollars per
month.
The Twenty Principal Countries.
tie table which follows shows the aver
age monthly expectation of domestic mer-
chandise from the twenty principal export
ing countries Of the world for such por-
lions Of the fiscal year as the statistics are
available. and compares the monthly fig
ures of 1901 with those OF 1900: