Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-04-02
AVENUES Of TRADE FOR
AMERICANS IN RUSSIA

Washington, March 19.-The grow
ing interest of the United States in
the trade of Asiatic Russia and the
countries tributary thereto lends es-
pecial interest to statement just re-
ceived by the Treasury Bureau of Sta
tistics from a report of the Belgian
Commercial agent at Vladivostok, re-
Gently published in the Bulletin Com
mercial (Brussels). The statement is
especially important in view of the
fact that the commerce of Siberia has
recently been brought under the gen.
eral customs laws Of Russia. The
statement is summarized by the Brit
ish Board of Trade Journal, as follows:
THE Vladivostok custom house, as
is well known, commenced its func-
tions on the LIST of January, 1901. This
measure has had a characteristic effert
on the trade of export, the import
duties affecting principally manufac-
tured articles, and scarcely touching
products of prime necessity Except
-four and rice) which are not produced
In the country.
THE following is a list of articles
that can be imported into Vladlvostok
free of duty: Fruits, fresh and dried
pineapple preserves, fresh oranges,
kidney beans, green peas, potatoes,
fresh and preserved; rice not decorti-
Gated, bread, mushrooms, citron, salt,
brick tea. chicory, beef and mutton,
steeli, steel and iron needles, steel
iron and tlnplate articles. iron and
steel scales Except finely balanced
kinds used by CHEMISTS; iron and
steel machinery, iron and wire nails
iron and STEELE scythes, IRON in bars
sheet iron. tinplate, cast iron, rivets
tools, wheels, locks. tables sewing ma.
chimes, carpets and rugs, furniture
glass and glassware, alabaster, asphalt
bicycles, bottles, bricks, maps, books
straw baskets for flowers, leather
straps, driving belts, musical instru
ments and pieces OF music.
Upon the closing of Vladivostok a
q free port, the traders in the place
who are few in number, and who's
. means are very limited, did not della
In turning this circumstance into &C
count by increasing the price Of artl
Giles which enter free In the same pre-
portion as those upon which duty !
paid. Towards the end of 1900 larg
quantities Of goods /ere imported int
Vladivostok In view of the apropachin
closure OF the free port, and at tn
present time the place Is still over
stocked with various articles whic
. Will take some time to be disposed Of.
THE greater part of the merchGn
disc imported into Vladivostok in 1870
! was sent by way OF the Amur an
Manchuria. Commercial relations be
tween this latter province and Vladi
vostok are developing rapidly, for, a
the present time, it is vladivosto
which Is supplying Manchuria by Va
OF the rivers Amur and Sungari an
by the trans-Siberlan railway, whic
is already finished as far as Harbil
Goods destined for Manchuria pay in
, port duties at Vlladivostok, but ii
/ amount is refunded after the goot
have crossed the frontier. This, II
/. evident, complexities the transit trad
and II would therefore seem to be
3 advantage in these circumstances
use Port Arthur for goods able to bei
the expense Of transport. Heavy me
, chandise, however, such as iron, etc
! will probably continue to be sent VI
J Vliadivostok, the expenses OF tran
port to Northern and Central Manchu
5 la being much less onerous than fro
. Port Arthur.
; owing to the great fluctuations
the rates for transport into the int
3 ior, exporters will do well to fix the
: prices c. |. {. Vladlvostok or Port A
I thur, so as to avoid the risk in tran
Y porting the goods by river or rail.
4 THE articles imported into Maj
Q churia are the same as those usual
. exported to China, viz, manufacture
a articles, spirits, sugar, candles, viii
dow glass, arms for Europeans, ct
: Manchuria exports raw materials, VII
n cereals, oil cakes, bristles, wool, etc.