The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-19
AMERICAN EXPORTS.

which exports from the United States
do not make satisfactory growth are
South America and India. In each OF
these cases the United States imports
large and constantly growing quantities
of the products of the countries in
question, but makes no perceptible
i gain in it's exports to those parts OF
the world. The imports into the United
states from South America have grown
from $50. oO6. IA in 1890 to sis. 7s5, 756 in
l1eO2, while the exports to South America
from the United States in 1890 were
s3s. 752, s4s, and in 1902. $ss.o4s.617. From
the British East Indies (Which includes
India. the MaIayan Peninsula, Ceylon,
etc-0 the imports into the United States
were, in 1890, $2O.SO4, s19. and in 1902.
s4S, 421 .21s; while the exports from the
United States to the British East In
dies were. in 1890. $4.655.s7s. and in 1902,
s4.s21. S7s.
These facts, especially with reference
to the trade of the United States with
British India, are set forth in state
ment just published by the Treasury
Bureau of Statistics, entitled CONNER
clad India in 1902" The absence of
growth in our exports to British India
is the more strongly marked because
of the fact that importations into India
are steadily increasing. having doubled
since 1864 and grown from s166,ooo,oO0 to
1924, 600. 900 since 1880. Another equally
Interesting fact in regard to the export
trade to British India is that a large
proportion of the articles imported into
that country is of the class produced by
the United States. OF the 1854. 900. 900
worth of articles imported into British
India in 1902. thirty-six per cent con-
sisted OF cotton goods, of which the
United States is a large manufacturer
and constantly increasing her manu-
line as the chief cotton producer of
the world are almost unlimited. Sec
ond in order in value of imports are
manufactures of iron and steel, which
form about twelve per cent of the total
imports; next in order is mineral oil,
which forms about five per cent of the
total imports. Thus more than half of
the total importations into British In
dia was composed of the class of arti-
Giles for which the United States has
special facilities of production and in
which she ranks among the worlds
greatest producers. Prominent among |
the articles forming the remainder of i
the imports of British India are pro-
clothing, copper, paper, instru-
ments and apparatus, chemicals. salts
and spirits, of all of which the United |
States is a large producer and con-
stantly increasing her exports. Yet in !
spite of the fact that more than three
fourths of the imports of India is of /
the class of merchandise which the |
United States produces and exports,
less than two per cent of the importa-
tons of British India in 1902 was from
the United States. OF the four and /
a half million dollars worth of exports
from the United States to British In
dia in 1902, mineral oil was the largest /
item, amounting to $1,437.696 next in
order were cotton cloths, $569, 29S; ma
s4so.2S6: pipes and fittings,
s215,S40; chemicals. drugs. and dyes,
s1O3,2 15; instruments and apparatus for
purposes, $115,32S and clocks
and watches, $ss.5s3. OF the importa-
tons into the United States from the
British East Indies, manufactures of
hbers, chiefly Jute bagging, amounted to
over twelve million dollars; jute for
use in manufacturing, over four mil
lions; hides and skins. over nine mil
lions; gums, more than two millions;
spices, one and one-half millions; and
cabinet and dye woods, nearly a mil
ion dollars.
A very large proportion of the trade
Of British India is with the governing
country. the United Kingdom, and a
considerable proportion of the remain
Ter is with British colonies. In 1902
he United Kingdom supplied sixty-fve
per cent of the imports into. and took
twenty-five per cent OF the exports
rom British India.