The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-04
EXPORTS TO THE FAR EAST.
Americn's Business With China Falls
on Fifty Per Cent.

OF Fifty Per Cent.
! The hostiIities in China have seriously
affected exports from the United States
TO that country In the seven months
ending with January, 1901, the total eX-
ports from the United States increased
more than $100 G39, CO., or about y per cent,
as shown by the reports Of the Treasury
Bureau of Statistics just issued. while TO
China alone the exports from the United
States show a fall OF more than 30 per
cent In practically all Of the articles
other than those required by the troops
now in the field in that country, there is
a marked decrease. while in d few articles
such as telegraph instruments, -four,
bacon and hams, butter ard cheese, there
is an increase.
In such important articles as cotton
cloths, illuminating oils cars, and car
riages. bicycles. builders hardware, Ium-
Der and furniture which enter into the
daily requirements Of the life of the peo-
pie of China, the reduction is very strong
l. marked. Cotton cloths, for instance.
| show reduction from rs, g93, $40 yards in
seven months OF the fiscal year 1900 to
l,476, Csc yards in the same months of the
| fiscal year 1901 Mineral oils show a fall
from 16O30,966 gallons in seven months OF
the fiscal year 1890 to g. 4s3. 365 gallons in
fiscal year. Builders hardware shows a
fall from s2S.559 to S16.3f7; cars and car
/ riages, from S14,99l to less than 81, go;
| clocks and watches, from SO, $50 to s., 335,
and manufactures of tobacco, from s261, 7S2
| to $1s0,121.
In other parts Of Asia and Oceania pc
; culiar circumstances also result in an
| adverse showing in the exports of the
fiscal year up to tins time The exporters
TO the Hawaiian Islands have refused,
since those islands became part of the
United States. TO furnish to the collectors
| Of customs the usual statements OF ex-
ports, and as a result the Bureau of Sta
t3stlcs Is unable to make any report of
| the exports to the Hawaiian Islands
winch presumably amount TO more than
s!a,vVtvp per annum. as they had reached
tLiat sum prior to annexation, and were
showing a rapid increase when the re-
ports terminated This viii cause the ex-
ports 10 Oceania to fall fully $4,000 900
peiow the actual amount since the exist
! ing law provides no method by which ex-
| pofters can be required to furnish a
statement of their exports from one port
| OF the United States to another
| other circumstances are causing the
| fSures of our exports TO Japan TO fau in
the nScaI year 1901 below those of the rre-
| cedirg year This is due entirely to the
! TACT that Japan imported such large
| quantities Of cotton from the United
! states in the fiscal year 1890 that she re-
duireS out ntIie at the present time and
/ our exports Of raw cotton to Japan in
the seven months ending with January
| lSJl amount to only $3.50, sos pounds
| against $3.50 ,286 pounds in the CORE
/ spending months Of the preceding fiscal
| year, thus causing a reduction of more
| than g. 100000 In the single item of cotton
| exports 10 Japan These three peculiar
| circumstances-the reduction Of exports
| 10 China by more than 80 per cent; the
| reduction of cotton exports TO Japan.
amounting TO over 81, 900 coo in seven
months time. and the inability of the
| Bureau OF Statistics 10 present the fig
/ ures OF our exports to Hawaii which
| have doubtless amounted during the
! seven months of the fiscal year to nearly
| $40, 900. G00-Liust have a marked effect
| upon the export figures to Asia and
/ Oceanic. and il is not surprising that The
| figures OF the Bureau of Statistics show
/ an apparent reduction of SIS. 600 OOJ in the
! total exports to Asia and Oceanfa in the
| seven months ending with January. 1891
| as compared with the seven months end
/ ing with January, 1900. when China and
Japan were taking their fun quota and
| when the exports TO the Hawaiian Islands
! were being recorded
| The following tables show the principal
| exports to China IN seven months ending
| with January, 1893. 1890, and 1891:
Articles showing Seven months ending jar. 81
| decrease. 1899. 1900 1901