The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-30
UNITED STATES
AND THE DOMINION 4 ! I: n
Material Difference II ota' Is
,nents Eacl, Gives OF One
Years Trade.
tsne,,al 10 .rhe Times DISPATCH. ~

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WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. ~ s- -las
trode OF the United States Win ea az.
IL shown from the stnnapolh. -
tinted states lii n series OF taoles -
s.,,,,a.a IN the annual report Of the cnlet
Il I. ~ r,nrna,, OF Statistics. Just flaue
h ,,,h,;c sby Tho Department of Commerce
-, "A. Il .i,o- while tables also received ny
~ rurean Of Statistics from the Gan'i-
4 i nm government present a picture OF e..ae
4 ra,1e from the Canadian Standpoint. =
riously. while the two statements 'eia'e
d -, ,he same trade and are presenteu ioi
3,scai years witch terminate IN each
case on June 80. the hEuil5es - - 49, II f'7f
\ fer materially. c+,4es cy-
,,orts 10 Cenude for the fiscal year . eI,a-
ms June 3d. 1901 shows oS,an ' Statement Of
imnorts from the United States W inen
should include only the articles class.iie -
90 eSnorts from the United states ~
Canada, shows ~ total value OF ~ SUI ", i,,nn
doiIars greater than the United States
M n atement Of export values OF presuli.sa ~
s the same articles. An examination o. ~. s...
a Canadian and United States nsures ~! ,ot
i, other Years also shows a material dll-
ference OF statement, In the fiscal year
1902 the Canadian figures OF imports 81 IRON .
the United States exceed by mlillons'
A the figures Of the United states SHOWING
exports to Ca 9na , and vea n leos
This fact that the Canadian statement
~ imports from the United States eX-
b coed in total the statement OF exports
from the United States States to Gamada n NOT
a i unusual development IN comparing INC
export figures OF the United States with
the Import figures of other countries. I. IN II
many cases the figures o.. the importing
country, which include only the artiGles ;
eSported from the United States to that
rs country, show q larger to tai OF Va!uc
than do the figures of the Uniteu& states e.
5$in stating the value OF the same artlclcs
when exported. A striking Illustration
$* of this general fact is found in some
81 figures recently compiled by. the Bureau
Of Statistics which showed the total I'M
portations from tho United States aof
each country Of the world IN Ivy, IS save
OF 1901 were the latest available records
A standardization Of these nntiona
4 statements Of imports from the United T IT.
y States in 1902 sllowsEa grand #total OF the
of SIZE o,O0O. coo, while the United States
statement Of the value of exports to all
countries of the world in that year was
Z 81, $50, 00O0 900, Il difference of go million
dollars, OF IL per cent. larger when stated
a as imports ny the various countries of
THE world than when stated as exports
by the United States. a 81
Another illustration of this general
fact, chat imports are always valued
II HI Cher than the corresponding articles
; when exportcd,His found In the fact that
S3:thc total value Of lmportations of all
countries of the world for which records
II are available is shown by the report lof
tine chief of the Bureau OF Statistics
Just issued at s11 ,S0a,23 600, while tho
Il exports of all countries. which. of course,
must form the imports, were valued for
atke corresponding year at only slO5l4,-
u u.s.. 900 a. difference Of Sl,S54;69o 900. or 10
q per cent. larger when stated as imports
E3ttan when stated as exports. iI&$
While the figures of the Canadian gov
u eminent and those of the United States
S differ somewhat as to the value or the
u commerce passing between them. they
q sufficiently a gree to show that tho growth
$s of that commerce has been very rapid.
4 Exports from the United States to Cana
4 da. have increnSed, according to the
81 figures Of tho s United State from "a
million dollars in 1854 to 1Sl million in
100, a period of fifty years. Most OF
S&this growth, however has occurred In
the last decade. From 1854 to 1907 la
III period Of forty years, tho increase, as
shown by the figures Of the Bureau of
Statistics. was but 80 million dollars. the
figure for 1894 being 56 million dollars !;
while from 1894 to 1904, ten yea RS
x per-ea the increase was rs millions. III
X the forty years prior to 1894 exports from
the United States to Canada increa sed
4 81 million dollars; in the ten&years sub
sequent to 1894 they Increased rs mil-
&alionS T7i8 ~