Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
ENCOURAGING SHOWING
AUGUST RECORD FOR FOREIGN
COMMERCE.
Of Manufactures Show In
crease Of Twelve Million Dollars
for the Eight Months Preceding.

The August record Of the foreign COM
merce of the United States is encouraging
The figures Of the treasury bureau of sta
tlstics show that exports of manufactures
have increased more than So, OOO, 600 as COM
pared with August of last year, and about
S12.OO0OOO in the eight months ending with
August. 1902, as compared with the cor
responding eight months of the preceding
year. Meantime manufacturers have in
creased their imports of material for use in
manufacturing, the value of imports of
articles In a crude condition which enter
into the various processes Of domestic in
dustry having increased 100000 in Au-
gust 1902, over August, 1901, and for the
eight months showing an increase of S2S.-
100000 over the same period of last year;
while articles wholly or partially manufac-
tured for use in manufacturing show an in
crease Of S., 0O0,OOO in the eight months,
making the total increase in importations Of
manufacturers materials in the eight
months ending with August $685. DOC, 900, as
compared with the corresponding eight
months of the preceding year.
Decrease in Sugar Imports.
Of the other classes of imports, manufac-
lures and luxuries show an increase Of
S19,OC0,0O0, while foodstuffs show a de-
crease of $17,O0OOO0 comparing eight
months Of 1902 with the corresponding
months Of 1901 This decrease in the impor-
tation of foodstuffs is in sugar, which alone
shows decrease of about $24, 900 900 in i'm
portations in the eight months ending with
August, thus indicating that in other ciasse
of foodstuffs there has been a net increase,
since the total reduction in that class is
but ST, O9O, 900.
This reduction of $4,000, 600 in the value
OF sugar imported is largely due to a re-
duction of cost in foreign markets the total
quantity of sugar imported being 1884. 3d.,
2l9 pounds in eight months ending with
August, 1902. against 2,S0S, DDS. 93S pounds
In the corresponding months of last year,
while the value of the sugar imports dur
ing eight months of the present year is
$3s's.s,s'2 against G2.564,921 in the eight
months of last year. the average value per
pound, therefore, being in the eight months
of 1862, Ice, and in 1901, &c.
The increase in the Importation of ma
terlalS for use in manufacturing is found
in nearly all of the important articles used
by manufacturers, except India rubber, in
which there is a slight decrease. Compar-
ing the importatons during the eight
months Of this year with the correspond
ing months of last year. chemicals show an
increase of Owe 81 900, 900; copper shows a
slight increase in quantity, but a decrease
of over S1,OOO,O0O in value; cotton, an in
of over $4,000 900: hides and skins, an in
crease of about 81. 900, 600; raw silk, an in
crease of over $4,000. 0O0 tin, an increase of
S100O,O00; manufactured wood 81, 800, 900
crease.
Cotton Exports Increased.
On the export side the increase in value
of manufactures exported occurs chiefly in
cotton goods, which show for the eight
months ending with August a total value
of SOB, 669, 5S1, against $16941, 254 in the
same months of last year. This increase is
almost exclusively. in cotton cloths, of
which the expectations in the eight months
of 1902 were 379OOO,O0O yards. against 49,
coo 600 yards in eight months of 1901 and
POI 100000 yards in the corresponding
months of 1900. This growth in the exports
of cotton cloths is chiefly in the trade with
China, the exports to that country in eight
months of 1862 being 255,G00,00O yards,
against 121,Oc0,cO0 yards in the eight
months of 1901 and 100,000,000 yards in the
corresponding months of 1900
Iron and steel manufactures still show
reduction in expectation and an increase in
importation. The total value of exports of
iron and steel manufactures in the eight
months ending with August. 1902 500
904 500, against 500 34G,379 in the CORE
spending months of 1901 and $S7 174.2o9 in
the same months of 1900 while the imports
of iron and steel manufactures in the eight
months ending with August, 1902, amount
ed to SOB 1856 80, against S12 210,3s2 in the
corresponding months of last year.