Arizona republican., 1904-10-03
GROWING EXPORTS
What Leading Nations Are Selling of Manufactures
United States, Third in the List, Has Led in the Increase During the Last Quarter of Century.

Washington, Oct. 2.-The increase in exports Of manufactures from the Unit eG States during the past year. and especially in recent months, has sug- gested the preparation Of some data by the department of commerce and labor through it's bureau of statistics regard ing the exportation of manufactures from the various countries of the world. and the relative growth in such exports. The value of manufactures exported from the United States in the year just ended exceeds that of any previous year, and during the months of May, June and July manufactures for the first time in the history Of the country exceeded agricUItrIal products in the expert trade of the country.
 This fact has led the bureau or sta tistics to this study Of the relative growth of manufactures in the princi- .pal countries Of the world which sup ply the four billion dollars worth of manufactures which enter the fnterna- tionaI commerce of the world. The chief countries exporting manufactures at the present time are the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the United States. These four countries supply about three-fourths of the manufactures entering the information al markets of the world the total ex- ports of manufactures from these coun- tries being, in round terms, three bil- lion dollars, and the total value of manufactures entering the worlds in ternational markets being about 4 bil~ lion dollars. A study however. of the relative growth of manufactures and of eXportation of manufactures in these four countries indicates that the Unit ed States is making more rapid gains than any other of the group
 The relative growth in the exporta- ton Of manufactures is equally strik- ing in its showing of the relative gains made by these four principal manufac- turing countries in their supply of the worlds markets for manufactures. The accompanying table shows the value of manufactures exported from the Unit ed Kingdom, Germany, France and | the United States, respectively in 1880 and the latest available year. Ii will be seen that the exports of manufac- lures from the United Kingdom grew from s964, ,54O,COO in 1880 to S1,142. .595. eco in 1863, an increase of 1S.46 per cent: France, a growth from $339. 1S6. coo in 1880 to $zO5. 794 0C0 in 1903, a gain of 1864 per cent; Germany. an increase frons S46O, ,279 0CO in 1880 to S7SO 926. coo in 1903, an increase of 69.66 per cent; while the United States shows a growth from S1O2, ,856, ,0I5 in 1880 to $452. .445.629 in 19Oi, an increase of 339.S .S5 per cent. Not only has the percentage of increase by the United States been greater than any of the other countries named but the ac- tual gain has also been greater The increase in exports from France during the period named has been S66. eos, 900: from the United Kingdom, S178, ,055. eco; from Germany. $32O, O,647. GOO; and from the United States, $349, ,5S9, ,614
 Exports of domestic manufactures from the United Kingdom, the United States Germany and France, respec- lively 18SO to 1903:
 Countries 1880 1903
 United Kingdom $964. .540, 900 1, ,142. 595, ,O0O United States " 1O2. .S56. .O15 452.445. .629' Germany %. .... 46O 279, 0OO 7S0, 962, GOO France c9q T26 nc0 AC5 70 OOA