The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-01
AMERICAS MANUFACTURES.

Four billions of dollars is the esti-
mated annual value of the manufac-
lures which enter into the international
commerce of the world. OF this sum,
the United States furnishes four hun
dred millions, or ten per cent Of the
| total. This is the conclusion of the
Treasury Bureau Of Statistics from an
analysis of the international commerce
I of the principal countries Of the world,
an analysis which it has made for use
| in conjunction with its forthcoming
volume on our commerce in manufac-
| lures.
The rapid growth in the expectation
of manufactures from the United States
an increase of more than 100 per cent
since 1S95-has led the Bureau of Sta
tistics to the preparation of an elab
crate statement of the distribution of
manufactures, showing the value of ev-
cry important manufactured article in |
each year from 1890 to 1902 and every |
country to which each article was sent !
during the period from 1892 to 1902, also
the total value of American manufac-
lures sent to each country Of the world +
in each year during that term. In con- :,
sidering the question of the distribu
ton of our manufactures, the consum-
ing power of the various countries and
the production and exports of the other
countries of the world .
are subjects of interest, and the Blu ]
reau of Statistics therefore presents in ]
conjunction with it's statement of our
own expectations of manufactures,
statements of the importations, produc-
ton, and distribution of manufactures e
by the principal countries of the c
world. q
The imports and exports of manu- :
lectures into and from twenty principal e
the remaining countries. the 5
Bureau states the grand total of man !,
fractures entering into International .
commerce at about four billions of dol u
ars per annum. OF this the United b
Kingdom supplies one billion dollars, or
per cent; Germany supplies :,
wenty per cent; France, about twelve q
,er cent; the United States, ten per n
ent, and Netherlands, about six per p
ent. Curiously, the nations which are IL
he largest importers of manufactures 10
re also the largest importers of man eC
features, this being due in part to the
act that much of the material which D
hey use in manufacturing is produced
l other countries and imported in the he
rst stage of manufacture, while other al
imported are composed ~
articles produced in other parts of 40
lie world and not produced in the sa
'untries in question In the case of the de
nited Kingdom, for example, which pa
1ports s725 200 600 worth of manufac- ue e
Tres annually, thirty-six millions rep bo
sents the value of copper, chiefly i'm he
,rted from the United States in the w
rIn of pigs and bars, the first process ne
manufacture; sixty-five million dol tn
rs, manufactures of silk, of which the TN
aterial is not produced in the United TIL
ingdom; sixty-three million dollars, sci
Dol, much Of which is imported in the
st stage of manufacture; sixty-seven "a
illion dollars, foods and drinks,
iefiy in the first stage of manufac- w
re; and 1fty-two million dollars, wi
ather which after importation be- is
mes a material for use in manufac- loo
ring. an an