Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-06-26
Our Export Trade.

ucSiucu improvement In the record OF
commerce OF the United States for
the first ten months of the present
fiscal year. The report of the Treas
ury Bureau of statistics showing the
detailed exports from the United
States by articles during the month
of April and during the ten months
ending with April shows marked
Improvement in the record of manu-
features exported. The exports OF
manufactures for the month of April
1902 are four and half millions
greater than those of April of the
preceding year, being S3S,96l, 3Ol,
against $34, 4l6,279 in April 1901, and
forming 1865 per cent of the total ex-
ports in April 1902, against 29.l per
cent in April 1901 For the ten months
ending with April the exports of
manufactures are 1888, 800, 500, against
1899, 3O7, 1923 for the corresponding ten
months of the preceding fiscal year,
reduction of about So million dollars
for the ten months, This would indi-
cate that the total exports OF manu-
features during the full fiscal year
which ends with the present month
will fall little, if any, below those of
last year.
An examinotian of the details of
the exports shows that the small re-
duction of 81 million dollars which
exists at the present time occurs
chiefly in manufactures of iron and
steel, the exports of which are $685.
1888, 463, against 800, 22S, 22S, comparing
the figures for ten months of this year
with those for the same months of
the preceding year. Thus the reduc-
ton N exports of iron and steel man.
ufactures alone is much greater than
the net reduction in total exports of
manufactures. In iron and steel,
however, the figures for the month of
April show marked improvement,
over those for earlier months of the
year being 1890, 633, against $9,0Sl,-
223 in April 1901. In iron and steel
exports the principal reductions in
the ten months occur in pig iron, a
decrease of nearly three million dol
lars; steel rails, nearly five millions;
and metal working machinery, nearly
a million dollars.
In other articles of manufacture,
which some months ago showed a
marked reduction, there has been a
decided reaction and return of nor
NAL conditions. In manufactures of
copper, which during the early part
of the year showed very great re-
duction, the figures for ten months
| fall but three million dollars below
those of the corresponding months of
of April are nearly three million dol
lars greater than those for April 1901.
| Exports of mineral oil, which also
| showed a decrease during the earlier
part of the year in comparison with
| the same months of the preceding
year, are for the ten months ending
with April 1902 nearly three millions
greater than those of the same month
OF 1901, while the quantity exported
is about so million gallons greater
than in the corresponding months of
the preceding year. Exports of par
ATTN, whic h showed material reduc-
ton in the early months of the pres
ent fiscal year, are for the ten months
ending with April a million and half
dollars in excess of those of the same
months of the preceding year. The
largest increase, however, is in ex.
ports of cotton goods, which for the
ten months ending with April are
S26, 1919, against Sl5, 1861 in the
corresponding months of last year and
$40, 202,272 in the corresponding
months of the fiscal year 1900. This
increase in the exports of cotton
goods is chiefly to China, to which the
exports were largely suspended il
1901 owing to the disturbances ther
existing in that country, but are also
much larger than those of any earlier
year. The total exports of cottor
cloths alone to China from the u. 5
in the 10 months ending with April
1902 are 272, 439, 800 yards, valued al
$l3,3l4, 26l, against 44,660,272 yards
valued at 81, 494, 247 in 10 months OF
1901, and l64, 334, S55 yards valued at
1870 1913 in ten months of 1900.