Arizona republican., 1902-06-17
FOREIGN TRADE
 IN TEN MONTHS
A Showing for the Present
 Fiscal Year
The Exports of Manufactures Alone fer April Exceed Those of the Same Month Last Year hy Mcrs Than Four Millions.

Washington, June 1G.-Exports of manufactures show decided improve
 ment in the record of foreign com merce of the United States for the first ten months of the present fiscal year. The report of the treasury bureau Of statistics showing the detailed exports from the United States by articles dur
 ing the month of April and during the ten months ending with April shows marked Improvement in the record of manUfa cures exported. The exports of manufactures for the month of April. 19G2, are four and a half millions greater than those of April of the pre- ceding year, being s3S961, ,3O1. against G34. .41G.279 in April. 1901 and forming S6.5 per cent of the total exports in April. 1902. against 29.1 per cent in April 1901 For the ten months ending with April the exports of manufactures are s333 S20, ,SO9 against $339. .307 ,623 for the corresponding ten months of the pre- Ceding fiscal year. a reduction of about S5. 800 800 for the ten months. This
 would indicate that the total exports of manufactures during the full fiscal year which ends with the present month will fall little, if any, below those of last year.
 An examination Cf the details of tfe experts shows that the small reduc- ton of $55C0.COO which exists at the present time occurs chiefly in manufac- lures of iron and steel, the exports of which are $S2, ,3SS. .i63. against s99, ,22S, comparing the figures for ten months of this year with those for the same months
 ,rt oo ton in exports of iron and steel manu- faCtures alone is much greater than the net reduction in total exports of manu- fractures. indicating q marked gain in other classees of nianufacturs. In iron and steel. however. the fiugres for the mcnth of April show marked inn provement over those for earlier months of tie year. being $9,320 633, against $9.0S1.223 in April. 1901. In iron and steel exports the principal reduc- tions in the ten months occur in pig iron. q decrease Of nearly three million dcllars: steel rails nearly i've millions, i ;..id metal ugrkl.a5 H.s,c.l ar5 l'ea''i-- million dollars.
 Iii ether articles of manufacture, which some months ago showed a marked reduction. there has been a de- cided reaction and d return of normal conditions. In manufactures of cop per which during the carly part of the year showed a very great reduction. the figures for ten months fall but three million dollars below those of the cor responding months of last year, while l those for the month of April are nearly three million dollars greater than those ! fer April. 1901. Exports of mineral oil, i which also showed d decrease during ! the earlier part O. the year ill com palison with the same months of the preceding year. are for the ten months i ending with April, 1902, nearly three millions greater than those Of the same ! mcnths of 1901, while the quantity cX- ported is about S000O.0GO gallons greater than in the corresponding months of 1 the preceding year. Exports or paraffin, which showed a material reduction in ! the early months of the present fiscal
 year. are for the ten months ending
 with Apri! $1,5C0000 in excess of those
 of the same months of the preceding
 year. The largest increase. however. is ! in exports of cotton goods. which for ] the ten months ending with April are
 $.6. i336.3 .379, against $15,115,561 in the cor responding months of last year and $20. .2C2212 in the corresponding months
 ot the fiscal year 1890. This increase in
 the exports of cotton goods is chiefly
 to China, to which the exports were
 largely suspended in 1901 owing to the disturbances then existing in that
 country, but are also much larger than
 those of any earlier year. The total
 exports of cotton cloths alone to China
 from the United States in the ten
 months ending with April, 1902, are 272-
 439, ,390 yards, valued at $13,314 ,26l.
 against i4.G60,272 yards. valued at $2,
 494,247. iii ten months of 1901. and 164,
 33l. .S55 yards, valued at $7,S10.S23, in ten
 months of 1900.