Arizona republican., 1904-05-09
MANUFACTURES
Exports Reach High Water
 Mark This Year
100000 INCREASE
At the Same Time Imports of nanu- factured Articles Have Fallen Off. The Belance of Trade Promises To Be on the Right Side.

Washington, May Exports of man ufactures promise to exceed in the 1 fiscal year 1904 those of any preceding year. The nine months figures of the i fiscal year, just announced by the de- partment of commerce and labor, | through it's bureau of statistics, show a total of $17,0OO0OO greater than the l corresponding months of the fiscal year l 1900, in which the exports of manufac- lures reached their highest figures. In 1900 the exports of domestic manufac- , lures amounted to $433, 900, 900 for the whole fiscal year, which was the high est figure ever recorded for the exports of domestic manufactures from the | United States. In 1901 the figures | showed $411, 00O,OO0; in 1902, S403 000, 600, and in 1903, $407, 100000
 This drop in figures, however, was not entirely due to an actual reduction { in the value of manufactures leaving 1 the ports of the United States, but was 1 In part because of the fact that ship ments of manufactures to Hawaii and | Porto Rico, which had formerly been included in the statements of exports to foreign countries, were not so in cluded for the year 19ey. The exports of manufactures to Hawaii and Porto | Rico in 1900 amounted to S11 100000, and had these been included in the fig ures of exports to foreign countries subsequent to 1900 there would have been comparatively little reduction. The figures of exports to foreign countries in 1904, which are new com pleted for the nine months ending with March, indicate that the total value of exports of manufactures to foreign countries in the full fiscal year, which
 ends June 30, will exceed those of 1900, in spite of the fact that Hawaii and
 Porto Rico are no longer included. The total value of exports sent from the United States to Hawaii and Porto Rico for the present fiscal year will aggregate S25. ,OOO, and of this manu- factures form about two-thirds of the . grand total. In the nine months end , ing with March, 1904, manufactures
 shipped to Porto Rico and Hawaii have
 probably aggregated about $10,000. COG
 in value. The total value of the manu-
 factures exported to foreign countries in the nine months ending with March
 exceeds by s17,O0O.OO that of 1900, the
 banner year. in which the figures of ex- , lports to Hawaii and Porto Rico were
 included.
 | To compare, therefore, the shipments
 from the ports of the United States in
 the nine months ending with March
 1904, with those of the corresponding
 months of 1900, the shipments to Ha- [ waii and Porto Rico should be added
 and this would bring the total for the nine months about s3O,O00,0OO above
 those of the corresponding nine months
 of the year of greatest exports, 1900
 Comparing exports of manufactures tC
 foreign countries in the nine months
 ending with March, 1904, with those O1
 corresponding periods for earlier years
 a gain of $31,000,000 is shown for the
 nine months ending with March, 1904
 over the corresponding period of 1903
 and d gain of $36, ,O0O, ,OO1 compared witt
 the same period of 1902. Comparing
 conditions with those of a decade agC
 it may be said that exports of manu
 factures have almost trebled. In tn,
 nine months ending with March, 1894
 the total value of domestic manufac
 lures exported was $13S 9O2, ,149 agains
 $330, ,572, ,215.
 Imports of manufactures show a de
 cideL falling off in the nine mouth !, ending with March, 1904, as comparet - with the corresponding period of 1908 l To obtain a statement of the import
 of manufactures, the bureau of statis
 tics groups in three classes, viz, whol
 ly or partially manufactured material
 for use in manufacture; manufacture
 ready for consumption; and the grou articles of voluntary use, luxuries. etc.
 and this gives approximately the valu
 of all manufactures coming into th C United States, and amounts in total [ | S334, ,S15,956 in the nine months endin with March, 1904, against $366, 107,74 2 the same months of last year, a de crease of $32, ,0O0, 900 in imports of man s ufactures. It is proper to add, how d ever, that the group of articles c = voluntary use, etc." contains som d articles which could not properly c classed as manufactures, especial - diamonds, of which the importatio II has grown steadily for several year = past until the present fiscal year ,whic IS shows d decided falling off compare
 with 1903.
 For the eight months ending wit
 February, the diamonds importe
 amounted to $11,5OO,000 against owe d S16,000 in the corresponding period Is last year. These, if deducted from th h bureau of statistics figures of manu L. factures, would bring the total for tn 70 nine months down to about $32O, 900 ,Ot n worth of manufactures imported if against $330, 900, ,0G0 worth exported dul ing the same period.
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