The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-06-22
Years Exports TO
Break The Record
Special Correspondence of Tho Tribune.


Washington. June o.
= NPOR'TS from the United States in the fiscal
n year 1901, about to end, will prob.
II ably reach 81 500, ,O00,0 900 the highest point
ever recorded for single year in the his.
tory ot our export trade. For the eleven months
ending with May, 1901, the total exports were
Sl,3Sj 90. being double those of the CORE
spending period OF 1889, and SlO0,0O0,0OJ in eX.
ccSS of the total for the eleven months of last
year, which broke all previous records. Taking
the commerce of the eleven months ending with
May of various years as the basis OF compar.
son. the figures of the treasury bureau OF sta
tistics show that during the period under re-
view our exports in 1859 amounted 10 SGOi, lI1, :
sol; in 1894, to ssh, ,G06, ,0Sj: in 1892 to 81, E|O.
G2oO.J: in 1900, 10 81 2S5, ,Sil, l2j. and in the
present year, already stated, ST. .iSJ. .0l3 505;
while for the iull fiscal year our total exports
give promise OF exceeding one and a half billion
dollars, as the eleven months figures only fall
Sll5,OO0OOO short OF that amount, and the
monthly expectation of merchandise from the
United States has exceeded sl.0,0OO,O0O since
March l OF this year.
The distribution of our exports during the
year among the grand divisions, basing the csti
mate upon the percentages for ten months al
ready available, will he in about the following
proportions: TO Europe, Sl,l5jOOO, 900, as
against 81 ,OiO, 900 last year. to North Amcri
90, SO, 100000, as against sls7 600 600 last ycar
10 South America S4+, 600 as compared with
S}s.000,U0 in 1900; to Asia Sis,OOO, 900. AS
against nearly SGj,O0O,0o0 in 1900; to Oceanica
oDo against $40, 400,O 900 last year; and
Ia Africa $4,000 900, against Sl0, 800 900 in
III" preceding year, II will be observed that the
only decreases will be in our exports to Asia
where unsettled conditions in China have scri
"nSly affected trade, and to Occanca, from
which Hawaii has been omitted as foreign couu
try since its Organization as a territory of the
United States.
To products of agriculture is due the credit
Tor the greater portion of the increase in our
exports during The present year. In the ten
months for which detailed figures are available
products oi agriculture were valued at SSH.
5Dl ,9jj, and formed o., 81 per cent OF the total
domestic exports; last year they amounted 10
S1l1,3727+G, and formed but 62.2i per cent, Of
the total domestic exports For the same period
OF this year manufactures aggregated $3.50 $40 81 |
and formed aI,i0 per cent. OF the domestic eN-
ports while last year they were S3j2, ,G7l ,2O6 and
formed 5000 per cent. OF the value OF domestic
exports, The exports of agricultural products Tor
the iul fiscal year will be about $500, 600 900 as
against $si5, ,S5s, l23 last year. while those of
manufactures will be about SiOj, 900, 600, Us com
pared with si33,Sjl ,7dG last year This decrease
in the expectation OF manufactures is due chiefly
to the following causes: First, the war in
China, to which country our exports consisted
largely OF manufactured articles and to which
market alone our sales in ten months decreased
ilom S,ii,103, in 1900, TO S7.70G,l3S in the
present year: second, the transfer OF Hawaii from
the list OF foreign countries TO classification as
a customs district of the United States, necoss.
tlting the omission ilom our exports Of all goods
passing between that island and the United
md h,,
sl5OOD,O0o our exports Tor the year; and, third
the omission ior similar reasons OF merchandise
passing between the uniled States and Porto
Rico, to which island We sent in the ten months
oi the present year merchandise valued at s5,Gll,
5s3 Of which sum manufactures formed an m