The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-19
OUR FOREIGN TRADE IMPROVING.

OUR FOREIGN TRADE IMPROVING.
Exports of manufactures in October
seem to show something of the expect
ed revival in that branch of our foreign
commerce. The total exports of man
| ufactures in October, as shown by the
reports of the Department of Com
| merce and Labor through its Bureau
of Statistics, amount to $37,55S, 675.
preceding October, except that of 1900,
and even in that banner year of eX-
ports the total was less than 500, 900
above that of october, 1908. The
| increase over October, 1902, is about
| 81, 500, 900; over October, 1901, 100000,
and is more than double the total for
October of 1893. Most of the principal
! articles of manufacture show slight
increase in October 1903, compared with
October, 1902. Agricultural imple-
ments show a gain Of over $4,000,
compared with the same month of the
preceding year; cars and carriages,
| about $4,000; clocks and watches, $780,
600; copper manufactures, $4,000 sci
entific instruments, $4,000; steel rails,
$4,000; wire, $4,000; sewing machines,
$4,000; iron and steel manufactures
of all kinds, $31S000; boots and shoes,
$156,OO0; leather of all kinds, $419,G00;
mineral oil, 1904, 000 manufactures of
tobacco $4,000; manufactures of wood,
$50, 900, and manufactures of wool,
$4,000. Cotton manufactures show
slight reduction, the total exports for
October, 1903, being 50, OO5, $50, against
$2,6S9076 in sctober of the preceding
year. This reduction occurs almost
exclusively in exports of cotton cloth
to China of which the total for Octo-
Der, 1903, was 9,37O,6OO yards, valued at
s414, 156, against 2O,472,67S yards, valued
at $1,O36,726, in October, 1902. The
figures for October, 1903, however, COM
pare favorabfy with those of the cor
responding month in years preceding
1902 in which the exports of cotton
cloths to China were extraordinarily
large by reason of the small importa-
tons during the disturbances of 1901.
On the import side manufactures
show a slight decrease as compared
with October, 1902 Articles of voIun-
tary use, luxuries, ETC., are for October,
1903 $11,242,417, against s11,676126 in
October, 1902. Articles manufactured
ready for consumption in October, 1903,
are $14.375,375, against $14,540,799 in the
corresponding month of last year, and
articles wholly or partially manufac-
tured for use as materials in the man
ufactures and mechanic arts are $12,-
S43,S90, against s13,34S, las. Iron and
steel manufactures, of which the i'm
portations had been unusually large,
show a marked reduction, the total for
October, 1903, being $685., $3.50, against
81, 6S1 in October Of last year. Ar
ticles in crude condition for use in
manufacturing also show a reduction
in October, 1908, as compared with Oc-
tober, 1902, in which the total was the
largest for October in the history of
our import trade.
The figures of exports of manufac-
lures for. the ten months ending with
October show a condition quite as sat-
isfactory as those relating to the
month of October only AS has been
already indicated, the October exports
of manufactures are larger than those
for the corresponding month of any
preceding year except 1900, and this
may also be said of the ten months
ending with October, in which the ex-
ports of manufactures were 1884, 6S8, $50,
a larger total than for the correspond
ing ten months of any earlier year
except 1900
The table which follows shows the
total exports of manufactures in Oc-
tober, and in the ten months ending
with October. from 1898 to 1908: