The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-13
oUR GREAT COMMERCE.
~ Made Everywhere Except Up
on the Pacific Ocean.

Made Everywhere Except Up
on the Pacific Ocean.
-4,,.hineton July 1.-THE Pacific ocean
49, onlv spot on the statistical map
:, .ba world which presents at unfavora-
-. arnearance in the study of our COM
-,erce in the fiscal year just closed.
NJ all other parts of the world the
s.,-es of our exports show large in
Go To South America out exports
have increased s6,OoO.OOO; to Africa, s6,oOO'-
an. 70 North America, 100000, and to
r,,rone. S1O0,O0O,000 during the eleven
n,ontbs ending with May, 1901, as COM
n,rad with the corresponding months of
che preceding fiscal year; while to Asia
and Oceanica there is an apparent redue-
ton of over $20,oO0,OOo.
But this appearance of a reduction in
.,r trade with Asia and Oceanica is more
anparent than real. In fact If the exact
sgpres of our exports to the Pacific
oo,,ntries and islands could be given, they
would show little, if any decrease, deg
snite the fact that the conditions in emma
i've cut off one-half our exports to that
country and that the over-purchases or
cotton in Japan last year have momen-
taril,, reduced our total sales to the Yam
KEGS of the Orient. Our total exports
~ Asia and Oceanica in the eleven
months ending with May were, in round
terms, SOL 100000, and those of the CORE
sponding months of the present fiscal
wear only S76 900, 000--an apparent shortage
of $25,OOO0OO.
This is chiefly due to the fact that the
treasury bureau of statistics has been
unable to present any figures of our ex-
norts to the Hawaiian Islands during the
fsoal year, owing to the fact that the
Hawaiian Islands are now considered a
customs district of the United States and
that exporters to those islands take ad
vantage of that fact and decline to fur
pish the information formerly supplied
under law, which required all exports and
imports to be stated when passing out of
or into the country, but which does not
REQUIRE a statement of movement of mer-
chandse between ports and customs dis
tricts of the United States. A careful
study of our exports to the Hawaiian
Islands, however, justifies the assertion
that the total for the year will be fully
SO, $1,000, and this, if added to the to-
4 tai Of our exports to the other Pacific
islands and countries, would bring the to-
tai within 100000 of that of last year.
The fact that our exports to China have
/ fallen about $6,0OO000 below those of the
preceding year is admittedly due
to the temporary conditions which
i existed in that country in the
first half of the fiscal year, is of
itself sufficient to explain the remainder
of the shortage and to show that the fig
ures of our exports to the Pacific would,
under normal conditions, have shown the
same increase which have characterized
them In all other parts of the world. To
this, however, must be added the fact that
Japan took from the United States last
year an enormous over-supply of cotton,
the total for the year being $12,712, 900,
/ against $5,775000 in the preceding year;
and the result of this over-purchase of
cotton last year has been an abnormally
4 small purchase IN the present year, the
figures for the eleven months ending with
4 May, 1901, being $2.SS9. 241, against $685.
/ Jas in the corresponding months of last
4 year OF all other articles, Japan has
taken from the United States her usual
/ supply. In China the partial suspension
/ of purchases from the United States has
been merely temporary, and trade is now
being resumed in it's normal proportions
In the Hawaiian Islands the apparent re-
duction is entirely fictitious, due
to the absence of official statis-
/ lCSs Wnll6 0n6 actual value
Of exports to the islands has increased.
and not decreased. To other ports Of
Asia and Oceanica the figures of.the year
show an increase; to the Philippines, a
million and a half dollars; to British
Australia, two millions; to the East In
DIES two millions; to Asiatic Russia, a
sight increase over the corresponding
months of 1899, but something below the
figures of 1900, in which year the total was
above the normal
A comparison of the growth of our ex-
port trade with that of other nations of
the world shows that the United States
IN the fiscal year just ended has made the
greatest increase. During the available
portion of the fiscal year. the increase in
exports from the United States has av-
eraged nine million dollars per month /;
mat of the United Kingdom three million
per month; Russia, three millions; France,
TWO millions; Canada, two millions; Aus
Irla-Hungary one million; Mexico, one
million; Germany a loss of two millions
per month; Spain a loss of two millions
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