Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-30
AS an Exporter of Domestic
Products, In the Fiscal
Year Just Ending
WITH UNITED KINGDOM
Until Comparatively Recent Date,
the Latter Stood at the Head of the
: List of Nations = United States
Exports Have Grown With Greater
Rapidity Than Any Other country's.

Washington, May 30.---It is quite APP
parent that the United States is to head
the list of nations as an exporter of
domestic products in the fiscal year
which ends with the coming month.
The contest for supremacy as an ex-
porter of domestic products has been
for several years between the United
Kingdom and the United States Until
Kingdom stood at the head of the list.
During the past few years. however,
ca sions exceeded slightly the figures of
the United Kingdom, and the latest
statement of exports makes it evident
that in the fiscal year 1904 the United
States will be considerably in the lead.
The figures Of domestic exports of the
United Kingdom for the nine months
ending with March, 1904, We're $l,073,-
53S,366, and of the United States, ST.
1880, $50, the total domestic exporta-
ton of the United States for the nine
months being thus $760O0,000 in excess
Of that of the United Kingdom.
These figures, it viii be observed, end
with March. For the month of April
the figures of the United States, as an
nounced by the department of cons
merce and labor, thru it's bureau of sta
tistics, are $107,535,655, against $1O7,-
b92,056 of domestic exports in April,
1903. While the figures of the United
Kingdom have not yet been received, it
4,
could possibly occur in the two months
to reduce the certainty that the total
expectation of domestic products from
the United States in the fiscal year
ending June 30 next will exceed that of
the United Kingdom or any other coun-
try.
A further study of the exports of the
United States compared with those of
other principal countries shows that
not only is the United States the larg-
est exporter of domestic products, but
that its exports have grown with great
er rapidity than those of any other
country. The department of commerce
and labor, thru it's bureau Of statistics,
publishes table showing the total do
nestle exports Of the leading nations in
the years ending Dec. 81 from 1898 to
1903. and a study of this table shows
the relative growth of those countries
in their expectation of domestic mer-
chandise.
This table shows that the domestic |
exports of the United States grew |
from S..i :n.ii.ils IN 1893 to 1457 nl',-
li,us in 1862 an Increase of 603 N lions I
or 20 p,:. cent: those of the Uai.cd |
Kingdom. from ,.,6s million doi,a-s ii
1s9" to 1.415 millions in 19o. all in I
crease Of 81. millions or SO rer e....;
those Of Germany from 735 millions IN
1873 10 i.i:Ss millions in ..:Oo all m
crease of $50 Iii lions or so per cent.
and those OF France from 624 NIL ons
in 1873 10 st4 n.u:lnns in 1903, in in
crease of 80 millions or bur 20 pei.
cent. Austria ~, ngary shovel
growth il domestic exports of 327 lt,il1-
ions in 1893 to 1923 millions in !;os;
British India from $40 millions in 1893 I
to 40S millions in 1903; and Russia /
from 37S millions In 1891 to 1872 millions I
in 1901. Argentina and Japan show re- /
spectively, a large percentage of in I
crease in their domestic exports; those I
of Argentina from 90 million dollars in |
1898 to 213 millions in 1903. which is |
by far her largest figures of exports: |
and those of Japan from So million in |
1898 to 142 millions in 1908.
In the matter of excess of exports
over imports the United States stands I
in marked contrast with the other I
countries Of the world. Her excess of
exports over imports in 1908 was 462 |
million dollars; the next largest excess {
of exports being British India, 152 mill I
ions; Argentina, 81 millions; Russia 81 +
millions; Austria-Hungary, As millions. I
Chile 10 millions; Australia 15 mill t
ions: Mexico, 13 millions; and Egypt.
II millions. In excess of imports over
exports the United Kingdom is, of /
course, by far the most marked exam
pie the excess of imports over exports
being 1926 million dollars against an
excess of exports of 462 million dollars
for the United States Germany shows
an excess of imports over exports
to Gas million dollars: Meth
erlands, 1874 millions; Belgium. SO mil
lions: France, 80 millions: China, u
millions; Denmark, 65 millions; and I
Switzerland, So millions.
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