The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-28
COTTON And WHEAT
The Products Of These Two Staples
Growing in Demand in
4@. @. Manchuria. r. .E
Cotton Yarns to the Value. of $685..
100000 Sent to China
..s.. Last Year.

Washington. Nov. 2s.-The growth Of
American trade with China and the in
creasing popularity of American goods in
that country are shown by two official
statements which have just reached the
treasury bureau Of statistics. One of
these. is the report of the foreign com
merce of China in the year 1901, by Gus
toms districts, which contains the detailed
reports of the customs officials Of each
district, as we'll as a standardization Of the
total commerce Of the year; while the 9TH
er consists of some extracts from the re-
port Of the British commercial attache in
China, j. w. Jameson. The general re-
port on the commerce Of China for the
year 1901 show that the imports from the
United States have grown from 5,093, 1872
haikwan taels in 1895 to 1888, COG in 1901;
while those from Great Britain grew from
33, $50, 06O taels in 1895 to Al, 22S, 53S taels
in 1901, those from Russia, from 1871, 65S
taels in 1895 to 3,O15, 756 taels in 1901, and
those from the continent Of Europe, Rus
STA excepted from 1852, 099 taels in 1895
to 17,046,453 taels in 1901, showing much
more, rapid gain proportionately in. i'm
ports from the United States than from
the United Kingdom or other countries of
Europe.
Cotton Goods and Flour.
Cotton goods and flour are the items
Of importa tons from the United States
5
ton goods especially the increasing pop
ularity Of the American product seems to
be causing some anxiety on the part Of
European manufa cturers and representa-
tives Of European manufacturing coun-
tries. Commercial Attache Jameson,
commenting upon this fact. says that
cotton manufacturers are finding it in
creasingly difficult to compete with the
United States particularly in the coarser
grades of cotton" The American manu-
facturer, he says, enjoys advantages in
the way of geographical position, trans
port rates and improved machinery In
gray goods the competition is especially
strong, while in other lines American
goods are at least holding their own. In
cotton yarns the United States has, up
to this time, made no effort to supply the
demand, Great Britain, Japan and India
being the chief competitors for that class
of merchandise, nearly all Of the cotton
yarn exported from India being sent to
the markets of China. The value of COT
ton yarns imported into China in 1901 was
48. 600, 900 haikwan taels, or about $685.
600, 900.
How Our Trade Grows.
Especially interesting is a report from
the collector of customs at NeWchWang,
located in the extreme northeast of China,
g. section in which American goods are
supposed to be especially popular, and to
China via Shanghai, the most important
port Of entry, finally make their way,
largely for distribution in Manchuria.
dealing first with foreign goods" says
the report, 1--WE find that American drills
almost held their own in comparison with
1899, being 546,123 pieces, against 5S4,S77.
OF American jeans, and sheetings, 52,473
and 979,559 pieces came in, against 29,630
and 1,1o1,Ss5 pieces, respectively in $780,
The value Of the three articles during
the year. including the small direct ar
rivals, was $685. 61 haikwan taels, or
about 33 per cent Of the total foreign i'm
portations into this port. 70 grasp fully
how the trade in American piece goods
has grown in Manchuria, the comparative
table of ten years imports should be re-
ferred to, when 1t will appear how rapid
the growth has been and how indispensa-
BILE the Manchurans now find these prod
ucts" The ten-year table to which he
refers is as follows: