Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-13
New York Cotton Market.
PORTO RICAN TRADE
EXPORTS TO THE ISLAND A MIL
LION DOLLARS A MONTH.
Immense Increase in the Market for
American Producers and Merchants
in Five Years.

Porto Rico is furnishing market or a
million dollars a month to the producers
and merchants of the United States and
supplying nearly a million dollars worth
each month of tropical products required
by the United States The total shipments
of domestic merchandise from the United
States to Porto Rico in the ten months end
ing with April were 81. S44.31S. and Of for
eien merchandise s2lS,276. making the total
value of merchandise sent 60 Porto Rico
from the United States s10.062. 594. The to-
tai shipments of domestic merchandise
from Porto Rico to the United States in the
ten months ending with April. 1903. was
So, 744;427. and of foreign merchandise $50
OBI. ma king the total shipments from that
island to the United States In the ten
months ending with April IS, 500. AGA.
In the month OF April the shipments from
the United States to Porto Rico were Sl93.-
500 and from Porto Rico to the United
States SI919,023 These figures indicate
that the shipments from the United States
to Porto Rico during the fiscal year which
ends with the present month, VIII aggre-
gate about sl2.oOo.0oO, and those from
Porto Rico to the United States nearly an
equal sum.
These figures of commerce between Porto
Rico and the United States are in marked
contrast with those of earlier years. In the
fiscal year 1898, which Immediately pre-
ceded the transfer of Porto Rico to the
United States. the exports from the United
States to that island were 81 ,J00,3fo. In the
next year they were 81 $50, S4S; In 1900, ST.
$40. 449 In 1901 S6.965, 40S; in 1902 $40, sS2.-
653, and as already indicated. in the year
1903 will be about $4,000, 900. Thus the
total shipments from the United States to
Porto Rico for 1903 will be eight times as
great as those of 1898, and six times as
great as those of 1897. On the other hand.
shipments from Porto Rico to the United
States have grown from s.. 414356 in 1898
to S., 37S. 766 in 1902 and probably nearly or
quite S12 900 900 in 1903. about five times
as much in 1903 as in 1898.
The following table shows the principal
articles shipped from the United States 10
Porto Rico in the ten months ending with
April, and the principal articles shipped
from Porto Rico to the United States in
the same time:
Cotton manufactures (mostly cloth),
81, 765, OS4: rice. $l.640. 11S: iron and steel
manufactures, 81, 255. S29: provisions, 81 ,2Oi.-
565; breadstuffs (mostly -four, $500 22l.
wool and manufactures, $i59, 40; feathers
and manufactures. S257. 036; vegetables.
S15S $50; spirits. wines and liquors, $l53. 1856:
coal S153, S45; cars. carriages, etc, SET .221s
tobacco and manufactures. s119.3I9: oils
(chiefiy mineraD, Sis. S35; chemicals drugs.
ETC. Sill S62: paper and manufactures. 49,
O53; wool manufactures, S1o255; books
maps, engravings. etc. 500, 1853.
Articles shipped from Porto Rico into the
United States: ..
Sugar and confectionery. S.g9.99i; to-
bacco and manufactures, 81 .691, 269; Coffee
S7O4, 37S; fruits and nuts. S2I4,Sl4.