The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-04
A VALUABLE MARKET.

The value of South Africa as mar
ket is the subject of some special at
tention at the present time by reaso-
of a report upon that subject recent!
presented to the British Parliament
This report shows that the British col
oflies in South Africa have become OF
greater Importance than any other d
s the British colonies except India. Ter
years ago." it says, Great Britain s
exports to South Africa were valued al
a little under nine million pounds
sterling; last year they almost reached
twenty-six millions. In 1893 South Arr
ca stood sixth on the list of Great Brit
aims customers; last year she stood
second, and was only beaten by India
1t is no rash prediction that this year
the list as the largest buyer in the
world of the produce and n1anufac-
lures of the mother country"
81 This statement of the great impor-
of; South Africa as an importing coun-
try lends especial interest to some fig
ures just prepared by the Department
of Commerce and Labor through its
Bureau of Statistics, showing the
growth of exports from the United
States to British Africa and to Africa
as, a whole. These figures show that
the exports from the United States to
British Africa have grown with even
greater rapidity than those from the
United Kingdom referred TO by the re-
port above quoted. Exports from the
United States to British Africa grew
frem $3,6S8, 999 in 1898 to $53. S44,395 IN
1903, or, in other words, We're nine
exports from the United Kingdom to |
South Africa grew from $39,S96,000 in |
1893 to SIPS. 900 in 1902, the 1903 fig
,ires not being yet available. Thus |
while exports from the United States |
to British Africa are in 1903 nine times
those of 1898, those from the United
Kingdom were in 1902 but three times
as much as those in 1898.
Il The relative growth of exports from
the United States and from the United
kingdom to the territory in question
can be more accurately determined by
utilizing the figures of the United States
for the year 1902, since the figures for
the United Kingdom for the year 1903
are not yet available This shows that
the exports from the United States 20
British Africa grew from S3,6SS,9 99 in
1888 to s2s, 0.105 in 1902, the total for H
1902 being nearly eight times as great
Gated, that of the United Kingdom for
1902 was only three times as great as
IN 1898.
The total exports from the United !
States to Africa have grown with great
$3.50, 4S0 in 1893 to $685.
1865 in y19OS. being more than seven
times as much in 1908 as in 1893; while |
% Asia and Oceania our exports grew {
rom $2S, 064, OBS in 1893 to sos, 1927, 52S IN
S03; to South America, from $32, $50, 0T1
n 1898 to SAL, 137,S72 in 1903; to North
America, other than the United States, I
rom, .s11s, 7SS, SSs in 1893 to $215, 4S2, 76s {
N 1908; and to Europe. from $661, $50, 10 !
n 1893 to s1,o29, 256,657 in 1908. !
That there is still room for a growth
n exports to South Africa, and that c
ur share III supplying that market still Y
alls far below that of the United King
lorl. is evident from the fact that the :
otal value of merchandise exported a
rom Great Britain to her South African 2
olonies in 1902 was $125, $50 600, against
total of s2s,7SO1O5 exported from the I
United States in that year to all Brit
sh possessions in Africa. 2