The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-30
NATIONAL EXPORTS.

says that exports u iiioiA
from the United States show an appar-
eut decrease of $23, ,5S3 in the hscal
wear 1901 compared with 1900. The de-
tailed figures. having just been com
nleted by the Treasury Bureau OF sta
tistics, it is now practicable to analyze
this decrease and see how much of 1t 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 hgures
of 1901 do not include the exports TO the
Hawaiian Islands or TO Porto Rlco'
which are now customs districts of the
Tinted states. The shipments of DO
nestle products to Porto Rico were dur
ing the year $6,S61,9 17, and including the
foreign with the domestic products eH-
ceeded 81 600 900. For the shlprnehls
from the United States to the Hawaiian
islands there are no official staustlcs'
the exporters having taken advantage
| Of the letter of the law and refused 20
giva this information to the bureau VI
Statistics. but the Collector of Customs
ar Honolulu estimates the shipments 10
! these islands from the uniteo States
during the year at fully s20,000,0oo ms
makes $27. 900, 900, therefore, "hAch
should be added TO the export state
ment in an attempt TO compare the hs-
ures of the present year with those VI
1900 An analysis of the exports lIoiii
, tho Tinted States to Porto Rico ana
! the Hawaiian Islands last year shows
that fully tWo-thirds We're manu1ac-
+ures and assuming this as basis OF
The calculations for the present year,
there should be added $18,oOoooo 10 the
statement of manufactures eHpofleo
from the United States, bringing the
/ total up to 428 million dollars, or ohly
five millions below that OF last year.
The exports to China from the Unlleu
t states fell off about $5,00o,000 In I9ol'
| compared with 1900, the fall of course
Iha,ne entirely due to temporary causes.
i An examination of our exports to China
! IN 1900 shows that practically all are
manufactures. so that the temporary re-
ductiou of exports to China due to the
unsettled conditions in that country,
coupled with the absence OF eApoi
statistics for Hawaii and Porto hlco'
: fully equals the entire decrease IN our
exports of manufactures.
I 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 Inese
articles are: "a copper, reduction Oh
s14. 500 600; 90 iron and steel. decrease
, of "a 500. OoO 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 S5,'
900. 900: go mineral oils in which there
is a reduction of So, 600 in value, and
which Is due entirely to a reduction In
the export price Of oils, the number OIL
i gallons exported having actually IN
creased from 7,599,499 gallons in 1901
| to $40 49S, 1854 gallons in 1901; tD cot
ton manufactures, a reduction of SS,
100000, which is entirely due to the
Temporary falling off in our exports tc
China. the decrease in exports of cot
ton goods to China in 1901 compared
with 1900, being 81, $4,000, or more thar
the entire decrease in total exports o.
icotton manufactures. Taking the en-
fire available list of exports of manu-
features, numbering about 200 distinc
articles or classes of articles, it is fount
that so per cent show an Increase IL
l value; as compared with last year
while in a considerable number
those showing a decrease the loss !
entirely due to the reduction In prlc
per unit, the actual quantities being L
several cases greater and the value
5 less than last year.