Arizona republican., 1903-04-13
THE COUNTRIES
 WE TRADE WITH
Statistics Showing the Direc-
 tion Of American Exports
The Tables Cover Q Period of More Than a Hundred Years and the Growth Everywhere of the Com merce of the United States.

Washington, April 12.-The growth
 in the exportation of manufactures
 from the United States and their dis
 tribution to countries and grand divis-
 ions are discussed in much detail in a
 monograph prepared by the treasury bureau of statistics, for publication in
 the April summary of Commerce and Finance. It shows the expectations of
 manufactures in each year from 1I90
 to the present time and their distribu- tion country by country, and article by
 article in each year from 1892 to 1902.
 The eXportation of manufactures has
 grown from $1,243, ,547 in 1190 to ST 7.5SO,-
 456 in 1850; $102 S56,0 in 1880. $151, 102 -
 316 in 1S90 and $403.641, 401 in 1902 In ; 1190 manufactures formed els per cent
 of the total domestic exports: in 1850,
 1908 per cent; in 1880 12.48 per cent;
 in 1890, 17.S7 per cent. and in 1902, 29.7I
 per cent. This shows that the exports
 of manufa cures are increasing much
 more rapidly than those of other great
 classes of the exports. This growth in
 the eXpOrtation Cf manufactures is es-
 pecially marked in the period since 1895. In that year. 1895, the total eX- ports of manufactures were $1S3, 595, 743 having gained $S1 O00,G0O in the fifteen years between 1880 and 1895. In the eight years from 1895 to 1908 the in crease was S22O coo. coo Thus in the
 eight years since 1895. the increase in the exportation of manufactures has been nearly three times as much as in the fifteen years immediately prior to 1895.
 The statements of distribution of the [ ,-7., 1Ie striking and interesting facts. They show, for example. that practically one-half of the manufactures exported from the United States go to
 Europe, and that the exportation
 of manufactures to Europe has grown from $76.0 900 in 1892 to $197.- oO9.0o9 in 1902. To North America other
 than the United States, our exports of
 manufactures have grown from $3S,- 0C0.O00 in 1892 to $1O9, 900, ,OOO in 1902. of . which S54,090,O00 value went to British North America. British territory, in cluding both the united kingdom and it's colonies, takes One-half of the man ufactures exported from the United States. or $200. 100000. in round terms, of the total eXport&tion of $40O, GOO
 in value in 1902; while the united
 kingdom alone took $1OO,OJO OGO, or one , fourth of our total eXportation of man ufactures in 1902.
 Considering the exports by great groups of articles, 1t may be said that manufactures oi iron and steel as a group from the largest item. in the ex- ports of manufactures, having grown from S52.000 in 1890 to $322. .000 in 1880. $1, ,CCG, COG in 1850. about $6. O00. 900 in 1S6O $13.0G10o0 in 1870. S25 100000 in 1890, and $121. .GGG. eco in 1900: while in 1902. owing 1 to the unusual demand in the United ! States for iron and steel manufa cures, the exports thereof dropped to sos. .000,- GOO. Mineral oils form the second larg- est item among the groups of manufac- lures, having grown from $50, coo 900 in 1870 to S66, GOO GOO in 1902 Copper man ufactures rank third, the total exports having grown from S1.5c0. .000 in 1860 to $2 800, coo in 1890 and $41, ,O0O. 900 in 1902. l Cotton manufactures have grown from $4.500,C00 in 1850 to $10O00, 900 in 1860, S24.000000 in 1900 anG $32, coo in 1902. Leather and it's manufactures have in creased their expectations from $1500,- 900 in 1860 to $6,500,o coo in 1880, SIP 00O- eco in 1890, S27,O00,00 in 19OG, and S29,- 0O0,0G0 in 1902 Exports of agricultural implements have grown from $1.000 900 in 1870 to $i,000,000 in 1890 $16,OOO, GOO in 1900 and $16,250000 in 1902. Twenty eight articles or groups of articles ex- ceeded $1,000, coo in the value of their respective exports in the fiscal year 1902. Of these twenty eight groups now exceeding s1.OOO.O09 each in value { annually, not a single one aggregated as much as q million dollars in 1920, and only three groups exceeded $1 1,0O0,- eco as late as 1850; in 1S60 eight groups | exceeded each S1,0O0OGO; in 1880 the
 number of groups exceeding $1,0O0, ,O00 in value was thirteen; in 1890 twenty
 and in 1890, as already indicated,
 twenty eight exceeded $1.OO0. 900 each in the value of their annual eXportations
 
 THE FIRST HEARD OF IT.