The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-29
Our Foreign Commerce.

commerce of the United
Il States for the year ended
June 80, 1901, are wonderful
in their revelations of American expan-
sion and, far from being dry like most
statistics are, when fully compre-
hended, of absorbing interest.
In all our trade that year, despite the
disturbance in China, and the talk that
Europe is jealous, amounted to $2,3l0-
i2S573. Ten years ago it was $l,726,-
7s9sl5. Then exports and imports were
almost equal. Now we import 1922 ,613,-
Ol6 worth of merchandise and export
ST. .iS1, 155557 worth. Compared with
last year the imports stand:
1900 1901.
Articles OF food and ami.
mails ...... ..........S2ls, jlO,OJS s222 221, s9s
Articles in crude con-
ditlon ..... ,.,...... 3O2, 2,l2G,ifb "JJ, ibo,iUi
Articles partially manu-.
featured ...... ...... SSi33,5i9 79,oSo716
Articles Manufactured. l2spOo d97 80, O,Go2,o on3
Articles Of voluntary use lll67O,Ooi lzO,9Ss,0o5
And the exports of domestic merchan-
disc s27 ,301 74S of our exports were inn
ports exported:
".
Products Of agriculture SS35 ,l23 $9ii ,05gjdS
Products OF manufacture i33,S5l,7jG ilO,j01l13
Products Of mining ..... 37siS,1i2 32,2656i7
Products of the forest =. 52,2lS,ll2 5i,3l2,s50
Products Of the fisheries. 6,326,620 7,ii33l3
Miscellaneous ........... IG6j,2lS i,j6l rs
The falling off in the value
of the years imports occurred chiefly
in raw silk, hides and skins, wool and
Ipl a To-, la
reduced value is partially due to re-
duction of price rather than quantity.
Raw silk shows a reduction from Si4,-
5i9,612 in 1900 to s29,3j3,717 in 1901, "a
decrease in value of 3i.1 per cent;
while the number of pounds shows IA
decrease from 1l,259.3lO pounds in 1900
| to 9,l396l7 pounds in 1901 decrease
| of only ISIS per cent. In India rubber,
while the imports of 1901 are only
| S2S 4j5.SS3 against $3l $40 S67 in 1900, the
quantity imported i'm 1901 is 55,275, 529
pounds, against 49.377,l3S pounds in
| 1900, the value showing a decrease of
9.3 per cent, while the quantity ac-
tualy increased 1l,9 per cent. In
| wool. the importations decreased from
| 155,923455 pounds, valued at $50, 26O, 1856
| in 1900, to 1O3, ,5S3, sos pounds, valued at
| $12, ,529,sSl in 1901.
| The falling off In the value of the
years exports is limited to manufac-
| lures and is more apparent than real.
| II the exports of manufactures TO Ha-
| Waii and Porto Rico could be included,
| the figures of 1901 would differ little
| from those of 1900. In two important
| articles of manufacture however, the
| exports of 1901 fall below those of 1900.
| These are copper and cotton cloths.
| The total exports of copper in 1901
were 952,769,32S pounds, against 333, -
34O,725 pounds in 1900, valued at SAL
| 260,376 in 1901, against $55,772,1 166 in
1900; this decrease being chiefly due
to reduction in the demand for cop"
per in Europe, the principal foreign
market for American copper. In cot
ton cloths, the reduction is entirely
due to the temporary suspension of
| exports to China, to which the eXpor-
tations of cotton cloths fell from lS2,
02S6Sl yards, valued at $S,1S3,lSi in
1900. to S3,Sj9, 402 yards valued at Si-
55253 in 1901.
The foreign markets of the United
States stand in the following order: