Arizona republican., 1903-05-25
About Our Trade Relations With Foreign Countries
MEASURING FIGURES
Statement by Treasury Bureau of Sta. tistics of the Commerce With Russia ,iGermnay and Austria
 Hungary for the Year.

Washington. May 24.-The alarms which have been sounded during the past two years regarding the trade re- Iations between the United States and certain other countries of the world find no Justification in the figures of our commerce up to this time The three countries which have been men tioned from time to time as likely to decrease their importations from the United States are Russia, Austria Hungary and Germany. A study of the latest figures of the Treasury Blu 1sau of Statistics regarding our inn ports and exports shows Q steady growth in the trade relations with all these countries. and indicates that our commerce with each of them is likely to be larger in the present fiscal year than in any previous year in the history of our commerce. This is true both of the imports and exports. To each of these three countries our eX- ports are steadily and rapidly increas- ing. and from each of them our inn ports are also steadily and rapidly i'm cIeasing.
 This is especially marked in the fig ures oi our trade relations with Russia in the present fiscal year. The latest figures of the Bureau of Statistics are for the nine months ending with March. They show that our exports to Russia in that period were nearly dou- ble those Of the corresponding period in any year of the last decade and that our imports from Russia are also stead fly and rapidly increasing, being dou- bIe those of 1899 and three times those of 1894. Tn both imports and exports the figures Of our trade with Russia in the nine months ending with March are about three times as large as in the same months of 1894 In exports the increase has been especially mark cd in the past year. our total exports in the nine months ending with March. 1863, being s13,5S4.S75, against S7.441, ,014 in the same months of last year. In imports from Russia the figures of the present year also show a marked in- crease over last year and it is quite apparent that our irports-from Russia in the present fiscal year will be the largest in the history of our commerce with that country. Our principal inn ports from Russia are hides and skins, wool, lioorice root and fbers; and for all of these there is a constantly in- creasng demand among manufactur- CTS. Our principal exports to Russia are cotton, of which the United States produces three-fourths of the worlds supply: copper. of which we produce one-half of the worlds supply; agri- cultural implements and machinery.
 In the case Of Austria Hungary the growth is in both imports and exports. Our imports from Austria Hungary ir the nine months ending with March ,.If, period of our commerce with that country, and double those of the same period in 1895, 1898 and 1899. Our own figures of our commerce with Austria Hungary show imports from that coun- try much larger than exports to It, and this has been the case in our entire record of commerce with that country; though the fact that the official reports of Austria Hungary show much larger imports of products of the United States than our own figures of exports to it. indicates that considerable quan- titles of merchandise reported to our custom houses as exports to other countries ultimately reach Austria Hungary. Our principal imports from Austria Hungary are sugar, chemicals. glassware and fibers; and the principal articles shown by our own reports of exports to that country are cotton, cop ner and mineral oil.
 Tn our commerce with Germany the record Of the nine months ending with March shows larger imports and eX- ports than in the same period of any preceding year. The imports from Ger many for the nine months are S91,24G
 SIG, against $54, ,s5S,440 in the same period oi. any preceding year. The inn ports from Germany for the nine months are $91,246,S16. against 4.S5s 4zO in the same period of 1894. and it is apparent that for the fiscal year 1903 they will be the largest in the history