The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-05-17
COMMERCE
OF HAWAII
Interesting Report by
Department Of
Labor.

The exports of manufactures this
year promise to exceed those of any
preceding year in the history of Amer
lea. The last four years there has been
an apparent dropping off in exports, al
though in reality there has been
steady increase in production which
however has not been included In the
estimates. This is due to the fact that
exports to this country and to Porto
Rico are no longer included in the
statistics compiled by the Department
of Commerce and Labor.
In 1900 the exports of domestic man
ufactures amounted to s433, goo for
the whole fiscal year, which was the
highest figure ever recorded for the ex-
ports of domestic manufactures from
the United States. In 1901 the figures
showed s411,OOOOOO, in 1902, $4O3, 900, 900,
and in $685. 4O7,OOO.OOO
This drop, in the figures however,
was not entirely due to an actual re-
duction in the value of manufactures
leaving the ports of the United States,
but was in part because of the fact
that shipments of manufactures to Ha-
wall and Porto Rico, which had former
ly been included in the statement of
exports to foreign countries, We're hot
so included for the year 1900 The ex-
ports of manufactures to Hawaii and
Porto Rico in 1900 amounted to s11 .0OO,-
600, and had these been included in the
figures of exports to foreign countries
subsequent to 1900 there would have
been comparatively little reduction
The figures of exports to foreign coun-
tries in 1904, which are now completed
for the nine months ending with March,
indicate that the total value of ex-
ports of manufactures to foreign cour,-
tries in the full fiscal year which ends
June 80 will exceed those of 1900, II
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 ST.
100000 and of this manufactures form
about two-thirds of the grand total
In the nine months ending with March,
1904, manufactures shipped to Porto
Rico and Hawaii have probably aggre-
gated about $10,000600 in value. The
total value of the manufactures export
ed to foreign countries in the nine
months ending with March exceeds by
SIT, 100000 that of 1900, the banner year,
in which the figures of exports to Ha-
waii and Porto Rico We're 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-
wall and Porto Rico should be added,
and this would bring the total FOR the
nine months about $3O,OOOOOO above
those of the corresponding nine months
of the year Of greatest exports, 1900.
Comparing exports of manufactures to
foreign countries in the nine months
ending with March, 1904, with those of |
corresponding periods for earlier years,
a gain of $31, 600 is shown for the
nine months ending with March, 1904 |
over the corresponding period of 1903 |
and a gain of $36, 600, 00O compared with |
the same period of 1902. Comparing |
conditions with those of a decade ago |
it may be said that exports of man
ufactures have almost trebled. In the |
nine months ending with March, 1894 |
the total value of domestic manufac- |
lures exported was $13S, 800, 149 against |
$3.50, 572,215
Imports of manufactures show a de- |
cided falling off in the nine months end
ing with March, 1904, as compared |
with the corresponding period of 1903 |
To obtain a statement of the imports |
of manufactures, the Bureau of Statis- |
tics groups in three classes, viz, wholly |
or partially manufactured materials for |
use in manufacture; manufactured |
ready for consumption; and the group
articles of voluntary use, luxuries, etc; |
and this gives approximately the value
of all manufactures coming into the
United States, and amounts in total TO |
1894, SIS 956 in the nine months ending |
with March, 1904, against 1855, l07,7i7 in
the same months of last year, n de-
crease of sS2,O0O.000 in imports of man
ufactures. II is proper to add, how
ever, that the group articles of volun-
tary use, etc" contains some articles
which could not properly be classed as
especially diamonds, of
which the importation has grown stead
lily for several years past until the pres
ent fiscal year which shows = decided
falling off compared with 1908,
For The eight months ending with
February, tho diamonds imported
amounted 10 sll,5000O0 against over
sld, cocoon IN the corresponding period
of last year, These, II deducted fran
the Bureau Of statistics figures of mans
nfaeluros. would bring the total far tho
nine months dawn 90 ahout sa2anoa. 0oa
worth of manufactures impaired,
against i3aan1ooo worth exported dur
lnH lhe same lfrIQi
fhrss assures seem 60 lualliY lhe me
aiplinn thai iha value ~ manufactures
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