New-York tribune., 1901-08-03
SUBSTANTIAL EXPORT GAINS.
ANALYSIS OF AN osTENsIBLE DECREASE
SHOWS A PRACTICAL INCREASE FOR 1901


SHOWS A PRACTICAL INCREASE FOR 1901.
Washington. Aug (speciaD.-Exports of manu-
factures from the United States show an apparent
decrease of s3 342 5s3 in the fiscal year 1901. COM
pared with 1900. The detailed figures having just
been completed by the Treasury Bureau of Sta
tistics, it is now practicable to analyze this de-
crease and how much of II is real and how
much of that which is real is due TO temporary
causes
AS has already been explained in a special Wash
ington dispatch to The Tribune printed July
13. the export figures of 1901 do not include the
ports the Hawaiian Islands or to Porto Rico.
which customs districts of the United
States. The shipments of domestic products to
Porto Rico during the year St. SOL or. and in
cuding the foreign with the domestic products,
ceeded S7,00000O. For the shipments from the
United States to the Hawaiian Islands there are no
official statistics, the exporters having taken ad-
vantage of the letter of the law and refused to give
this information. but the collector of customs at
Honolulu estimates the shipments to those islands
from the United States during the year at fully
S2O.OOOOOO.
This makes $27. .O0OOO therefore, which should
he added to the export statement In an at
tempt to compare the figures of the present year
with those of 1900 An analysis of the exports
from the United States to Porto Rico and the
Hawaiian Islands last year shows that fully two
thirds manufactures, and assuming this as a
basis the calculations for the present year there
should be added SIS 100000 TO the statement of
manufactures exported from the United States.
bringing the total up S42s 900 900. only $1,000
600 below that of last year. The exports to China
from United States fell off about So 100000 in
1901 compared with 1900 the fall. of course, being
entirely due TO temporary causes.
An examination of exports TO China in 1900
shows that practically all are manufactures, so
that the temporary reduction of exports to China
due TO the unsettled conditions in that country.
coupled with the absence of export statistics for
Hawaii and Porto Rico, fully covers the entire de-
crease in our exports of manufactures.
In four important articles of manufacture how
ever, there is a material reduction in the value of
exports in 1901. compared with 1900. These art-
cles First-Copper. reduction of S14,500,0 ,0O0
second iron and steel a decrease of $4,000 OO0
which is entirely accounted for by the absence of
figures on the exports Hawaii. TO which the ex-
ports Of iron and steel alone from the United
States last year were over 100000 third mineral
oils, in which there is a reduction of S3SO0OOO in
value. and which is due entirely to reduction in
the export price of oils. the number of gallons eX-
ported having actually increased from S11,599. 499
gallons in 1900 $40, ,06i gallons in 1901 and
fourth cotton manufactures, reduction of S3.1Oo-
OOO which IS entirely due 10 the temporary falling
off In our exports TO China. the decrease In cN-
ports of cotton goods TO China in IDOL compared
decrease in total exports OF cotton manufactures
Taking the entire available list OF exports OF manu-
faCtures numbering about two hundred distinct
articles classes of articles, 1t Is found that tl
per show increase in value, as compared
with last year while in considerable hummer OF
showing decrease the loss Is entirely Que 10
the reduction in price a unit, the actual quantities
being In several cases greater and the Naues less
than last year 80,
The following table shows the exports IN l''o anu
~ a manufactures in which the total exports
in 1901 exceeded $l,9OVOoo'