The Washington times., 1903-08-17
EXPORTS TO CANADA
GROW DESPITE TARIFF
Record for 1903 Passes ALI
Former Marks. -
INCREASE ALSO IN IMPORTS
Exchange of Commerce Shows Little
or No Injury From Dominion's Re-
auctions to United Kingdom su

Commerce between the United States
and Canada was larger in the fiscal year
Just ended than in any preceding year.
ports. The figures OF the years COM
merce. presented by the Department Of
Commerce and Labor. through its Bu-
reau of Statistics. show that the inns
ports from Canada amounted to So. &c.,
40. and the exports to Canada. s1z3.-
Az. 416. In this term is included British
Columbia, Quebec. Ontario, Nova Scotia.
and New Brunswick
OF the imports of the year, $3s, 00o, 900,
speaking in round terms. were from
Quebec and Ontario. SIC. 0eo. 900 from New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and $780,
900 from British Columbia OF the ex-
ports S11o. 900 900 were to Quebec and On
tario. 100000 to New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia. and $4,000. 900 to British Cos
lumbia.
Former High Marks.
Both in imports and exports, the total
Of the years commerce with Canada was
larger than in any preceding year, Ths
imports never before reached so much
as $50. ZOO. 900 save In one exceptional
year, 1881, when they barely touched the
fifty million line. In 1902 they were
s4s.o76. 124; in 1903 they were. as already
indicated, s54. $50. 410. The exports TO Can
ada never reached so much as 800. 900 .00s
until 1901 when they were sos. 10000 In
1902 they were Sos. 0o0, 600, in 1903, as
already stated, they were $123. AZ. 416.
The figures OF growth In the exports
from the United States 70 Canada are
especially interesting in view of ths
fact that the Canadian tariff has given
to the products and manufactures of the
United Kingdom and most OF her Colo
MES reduction of 1914 per cent in the
tariff rates since April, 1897, % per cent
from August. 1898. to July 1. 1900. and
since that date a reduction OF SO per
cent Yet, It was during that period
that the most rapid growth in the ex-
ports from the United States to Canada
occurred. In the fiscal year ended June
80, 1897, the exports from the United
States to Canada were SCI. 600 900. yet
they have increased to 1923. 000, 900 il
1903. This is an increase of 80 per cent,
while the increase in the total exports
meantime has been about 10 per cent.
The Canadian tariff, which gave lower
rates TO the products of Great Britain
and her colonies, than to other coun-
tries. was introduced in April. 1897. and
provided that the tariff should at once
be lowered 1914 per cent on merchan-
disc from Great Britain and the colo
MES, and that on July l, 1855, the re-
duction should be 25 per cent This was
put into immediate operation. In 1906
the reduction was increased to SO Is
per cent.
Pertinent Comparisons.
1t is proper. therefore. TO include the
fiscal year 1886 in any statement made
for the purpose of determining whether
the reduction On the tariff on articles
from Great Britain and the colonies has
had q marked effect in increasing the
| imports from those parts of the worldl
| or reducing those from the United
| States.
| A table taken from a Canadian off,
cial publication shows that the per-
centage imported from the United
States into Canada and from Great Bril-
tain into Canada from 1896. the last
year under which the conditions were
equal, TO and including 1908. as follows;