Arizona republican., 1903-05-25
A TENTH OF ALL
Furnished Manufacturers
 of the United States
Their Products Scattered Broadcast Throughout the World Bring Four
 Hundred Million Dollars a Year.

Washington, May 24.-FOnr billions of dollars is the estimated annual value of the manufactures which enter into the international commerce of the world. Of this sum. the United States furnishes S4OO .OGO. .OOO of 10 per cent oi the total. This is rom an analysis of the international commerce of the principal countries of the world, an analysis which has been made for use in conjunction with a forthcoming volume on our commerce in manufac- lures.
 The rapid growth i1 the eXpcrtation of manufactures from the United States-an increase of more than 100 per cent since 1S95-has led the Bureau oi Statistics to the preparation of an elaborate statement of the distribution of manufactures, showing the value of every important manufactured article exported in each year from l7sO to 1902 and every country to which each arti- cle was sent during the period from 1892 to 1902. also the total value of American manufactures sent to each country of the world in each year dur
 ing that term. In consuming power of the various countries of the world are subjects of interest, and the Bureau of Statistics therefore presents in conjunc- tion with it's statement of our own ex- portations of manufactures. statements Of the importations. production, and distribution of manufactures by the principal countries of the world
 The imports and exports of manufac- lures into and from twenty principal countries Of the world are given. and estimating the remaining countries. the bureau states the grand total O; manufactures entering into interna- tional commerce at about four billions of dollars per cnnum. Of this the United Kingdom supplies one billion collars. or 25 per cent; Germany sup plies 20 per cent; France. about 12 per cent; the United States. 10 per cent, and Netherlands about per cent. Curiously. the nations which are the largest importers of manufactures are also the largest exporters of manufae- lures. this being due in part to the fact that much Of the material which they use in manufacturing is produced in other countries and imported in the first stage of manufacture, while other manufactures imported are composed of articles produced in other parts of 
 in question. In the case of the United Kingdom. for example, which imports STz5. COG, GOO worth of manufactures an nualIy, $36, COG, eco represents the value of copper, chiefly imported from the United States in the form of pigs and bars. the first process of manufacture; $65. eco 000 manufactures of silk, Of which the material is not produced in the United Kingdom; $63. .O0O.00O wool, much of which is imported in the first stage of manufacture; $67, ,000, 900 foods and drinks, chiefly in the first stage of manufacture; and $52,OOO.0O0 leather, which after importation, becomes ma teriaI for use in manufacturing.
 Expor tatiOn of manufactures eX- ceeds importation of manufactures iT the United Kingdom, Germany. France. the United States, Austria Hungary, Belgium and Switzerland, respectively; while in all other countries of the world importation of manufactures exceeds exportation of manufactures. Manu- factures form go per cent of the ex- ports of Switzerland, 7S per cent of the exports of the United Kingdom and Germany, respectively: 62 per cent of those of France: 59 per cent of these Of Belgium: iS per cent of those of Austria Hungary; A per cent of those of Japan; 4 per cent of those of Swe- den, and 90 per cent Of the United States.
 Turning to the import side 1t is found that manufactures form 76 per cent of the importations into Australia; GS per cent of those into Argentina; 57 per cent oi the imports of Canada; 52 per cent of those of Japan: 33 per cent of those of the United States, and 2S per cent of these of the United Kingdom and Germany, respectively.
 The following table shows the total value of manufactures imported into and exported from the principal coun- tries of the worl6.