Arizona republican., 1904-05-30
THECHIEF EXPORTER
Position of This Country
 Next Tuesday
After a Contest of Several Years Great Britain Has Been Easily Distanced.

Washington, May 29.--It is quite ar- 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 severad years between the United Kingdom and the United States. Un- til a comparatively recent date the United Kingdom stood at the head of the list. During the past few years, however, the United States has on several occasions exceeded slightly tn figures 'of the United Kingdom, and the latest statements of exports make it evident that in the fiscal year 1904 the United States will be considerab y in the lead. The figures of domest c exports of the United Kingdom for the nine months ending with March, 1901 were S1,O73. .53S. .366, and of the United States, S1, l49, ,330, ,670. the total domestic eXportation of the United States for the nine months in question being thus SIC. .000, GOO in excess of that of the United Kingdom.
 These figures 1t will be observed, end with March. For the month of Ap-il the figures of the United States ,as announced by the department of com- merce of labor through its bureau of statistics, are S107, ,535,655. against S107, 692, ,056 of domestic exports in April, 1903. While the figures of the United
 Kingdom have not yet been received, it
 is apparent that TO sufficient chang
 could possibly occur in the two months
 to reduce the certainty that the total
 exportation 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 country
 A further study of the exports Of the
 United States coTdpared with those Of
 other principal countries shows that
 not only is the United States a larger
 exporter of domestic products. but that
 it's exports have grown with greater
 rapidity than those of any other coun- try. The department of commerce and
 labor, through its bureau of statistics, publishes a table showing the total do- mestic exports of the leading nations in the years ending December S1 from ! 1893 to 19O3g and a study of this table shows a relative growth of these coun- l tries III lLtlt GADtTldtibH OAr uCAlSSl-C ' | merchandise.
 This table shows that the domestic | exports of the United States grew from sS54,OG0,G00 in 1899 to Sl,45I, ,000000 | in 1903 an increase of $603, ,000 GOO, or 70
 per cent; those of the United Kingdom from S1 O62, ,OO0, 900 in 1893 to $1 415, GOO. = GOO in 1903. an increase of 900, or ! s per cent; those of Germany, from e-o- 1nad Fn s,, | 1903, an increase of 50,C00, GOO, or SO pe' 1 cent. and these of France, from S624 : | coo, 600 in 1893 to SS04 900, ,000 in 1903, an 1 increase of $1SO,OOO.C00, or but 30 per l cent. Austria Hungary showed a | growth in domestic exports of from S327. 900, coo in 1893 to $42S, OOO OOO in 1903;
 British India. from S310,0 0C0 in IS
 to $4GS, OOO GOO in 1903; and Russia, from | sS7S 600, 900 in 1901 70 S392 GOO, 900 in 1901. Argentina and Japan show, rezpsct.ve- | ly, large percentage of increase in | their domestic exports; those of Arr
 gentina, from s9O, ,OaO,Oo6 in 1893 to $213,- 900, GOO in 1903, which is by far the | largest figures of exports; and those of
 Japan, from s56,OO0,O GOO in 1893 to $142, ! 0O0,000 in 19O3
 In the matter of excess of expor, s
 
 | in marked contrast with the othsr | countries of the world. Her excess of
 exports over imports in 1909 was $462,-
 100000; the next largest excess of ex- ports being British India, s1520C0. .0C0; Argentine, $7S.0O0, ,000; Russia, $S7, 900.
 900; Austria-Hungary, $4s,O0O,O0O; Chile. | SIS, ,000 ,000; Australia, $15,O00,G GO); Mex l ico, SIS. 900, ,OOO; and Egypt, $11,00O, ,0G0. 1 Tn, of hs | United Kingdom is of course by far | the most marked example, the excess of imports over exports being $1,226,- | GOO, 900, against an excess of exports of
 $462, ,000, 900 for the United States. Ger
 many shows an excess of imports ever exports amounting to S23S 0c0,C00; Netherlands, $134. 100000; Belgium, 99,
 900, ,OOO; France, $92. .OOOOOO, Chins. SIP,
 GOO, coo; Denmark, 5,OOO,OOO, and Swift zerland, 9,C9N, GOO.
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