Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-09
TRADE WITH MEXICO
THE COUNTRY WITH WHICH EX-
PORTS AND IMPORTS BALANCE.
With No Part of the World Has Our
Commerce Grown More Rapidly
in Recent Years.

The public discussion of possible change
IN the standard of currency in Mexico adds
interest to statement just prepared by
the treasury bureau of statistics regarding
the trade relations between the United
States and that country. With no part Of
the world has the commerce of the United
States grown more rapidly In recent years
than with Mexico. Exports to Mexico
from the United States, which amounted
to SIS, 100000 in 1891, were over forty mill
lions in 1902 and imports into the United
States from Mexico. which were twenty
eight millions in 1891, were fully forty-one
millions in 1902.
Mexico is the one country with which our
imports and exports balance To Canada.
that other adjacent country, we sell twice
as much as the value of our purchases from
it. Our imports from the Central Amer1-
can countries are 30 per cent more than
our exports to those countries. From the
West Indies imports are nearly twice
as great in value as our exports to them.
From South America our imports are nearly
three times as great the value of our
exports to them, and from Asia our i'm
ports are more than double our exports to
that part of the world. To Europe we eX-
port nearly three times as much as we I'M
port from that continent. In the case OF
Mexico. however, our exports to that coun-
try are at present just equal TO our imports
from that country. the total value or the
exports from the United States to Mexico
in the eleven months ending with NoVem-
ber 1902. being $SS, 12i. $50, and our imports
from Mexico during the same period, $685.
712,51.
Mexico's Trade With the United States
Mexico's trade with the United States
grows more rapidly than that with any
other part of the world. The exports from
the united kingdom to Mexico grew from
100000 in 1881 to s1O,5O0OoO in 1900; those
from France to Mexico fell from 100000
In 1881 to 100000 in 1899: those from
Germany grew from 100000 in 1881 to
S5OOOO0O in 1889 and those from Spain
from ss71 600 in iss1 to a little less than
s2,00O,0O in 1900, while from the United
States the exports to Mexico grew from
sl1 100000 in 1881 to So, 900 in 1900, and
as already indicated. over S4OO0O,OOO in
1902.
Contiguity quick rail communication and
the presence OF large American interests
in Mexico are the principal causes of the
rapid gains which the United States is
making over her rivals in the trade of
Mexico. over 5000 miles of railroad are
now in operation in Mexico, bringing all
parts of that country into direct commune
cation with the United States, and, accord
ing to recent statement furnished to the
State Department by the United States
consul general in Mexico, fully S40O, 600, 900
of capital from the United States is in
vested in that country, and many citizens
of the United States are located Temporal
rily or otherwise in Mexico. Mexico is the
one country south of the United States to
which our exports show an appreciate
growth. To the Central American states
our exports in 1890 were s. 29647S and in
1902 $500. $751; to South America our eX-
ports in 1890 We're $3s 752, GAS, in 1902 S33,-
O43611; to the West Indies our exports in
1880 We're SS3197,2 22, in 1902 s43 $50 951,
while to Mexico our exports in 1880 were
sl3,2s5.2S7 in 1902 39S73 COG, and in the
calendar year 1903 will be over $40 600 COO
Our Most Important Exports.
The most important of our exports to
Mexico are manufactures of iron and steel
machinery. manufactured cotton, Ium-
Der, manufactured wood manufactures Of
cotton and gunpowder Our imports from
Mexico are chiefly textile grasses, espe-
cially ssal, coffee, hides, cattle, lead, cop
per and tobacco, and in addition TO these
there are large quantities of silver in ore
and considerable gold, which are not in
Guided in the figures of imports of mer-
chandise.