New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-14
GRATIFYING DEMANDS.
Unprecedented Export of american
Manufactures Reported.
ITRo,l THE TRIBUNE BUREAu.I

Washington, May I3-Exports of manufactures
sun promise to exceed in the fiscal year Of 1904
those Of any preceding year The nine months
HaIEes OF the fiscal year. Just announced by the
Department Of Commerce and Labor through its
Bureau OF Statistics. show a total 100000
greater than the corresponding months OF the fiscal
year 1900 IN which the exports of manufactures
reached their highest figures. In 1900 the exports
of domestic manufactures amounted TO S43S 0O0 900
for the whole fiscal year. which was the highest
figure ever recorded for the export OF domestic
manufactures from the United States. In 1901 the
total figures showed $4Il G6 0O in 1902 S403 OO000e
and in 1905. S40- 0C0oOO
This drop in exports however. was not entirely
due 70 an actual reduction il the value Of manu-
factures leaving the ports OF the United States
but was in part because of the fact that shipments
OF manufactures to Hawaii and Porto Rico. which
had formerly been included in the statement of ex
ports 10 foreign countries were rot included after
the year 1880. The exports of manufactures TO
hawaii and Porto Rico in 1900 amounted TO ST.,
01ao2, and had these items been included in the fig
ures OF exports to foreign countries subsequent TO
1900 there would have been comparatively little
ducton.
The figures of exports 10 foreign countries in 19O4
winch are now completed fer the nine months
ending with March, indicate that the total value OF
exports Of manufactures 10 foreign countries in
the tul. fiscal year which ended June 80 viii ex-
coed those OF 1900 in spite of the that Hawaii
and Porto Rico longer included. The total
value o. exports sent from the United States 20
Hawaii ana Porto Rico for the present fiscal year
viii aggregate $4,000 600 and Of this manufactures
form about two-thirds of the grand total. In the
nine months ended with March, 1904 rnanufa ctures
shipped to Porto Rico and Hawaii have probably
aggregated about 100000 in value. The total
value Of the manufactures exported to foreign
countries in the nine months ended with March
exceeded by 100000 that Of 1900 the banner year
in which the figures Of exports TO Hawaii and
Porto Rico included.
To compare, therefore, the shipments from the
ports OF the United States in the nine months
ended with March, 1901. with those OF the corre-
spending months Of 1900 the shipments TO Hawaii
ana Porto Rico should be added, and this would
bring the total for the nine months about $4,000 900
above those Of the corresponding nine months of
the year of greatest exports-l9g1. Comparing ex-
ports Of manufactures TO foreign countries in the
nine months ended with March, 1894, with those OF
corresponding periods for earlier years a gain of
$1,000 600 IS shown for the nine months ended with
and gain OF s56.oo1o'o compared with the same
decade ago IT may be said that exports Of manu-
t2ctures have almost trebled IN the nine months
ended with March. 1894, total value domestic
manuiactures exported was SIS 500 l4s against $780,
Imports OF manufactures show decided falling
OF IN the nine months ended with March, 1894,
obtain a statement OF the imports CT manufactures
Tie Bureau Of Statistics groups them in three
Jerias for use in manufacture. manufactured ready
ilJt,,ri sS ~ ''o. ~ 81 Ci,eS o. nCt,t - -
vain" Of all manufactures coming into the United
nine months ended with March 1904 against 1896 l0-
~ ~ the same months last year, decrease OF So,
91"Ib OF imports Of manufactures. i is proper 10
add. however that the group Of articles of yOlun-
tary use, etc, contains articles which could
rot properly be classed manufactures. especially
diamonds. of which the importation has grown
steadily for several years past until the present
fiscal year. which shows decided falling on com
pared with 1905.
For the eght months ended with February. the
diamonds imported amounted 10 S1.5a0 on. against
over A5woo99 in the corresponding period last year
These. n deducted from the Bureau OF Statistics
figures OF Hauutaetu would bring the total for
the nine months down about So 80 HHA worth ot
manufactures imported. against $3.50 tto worth
ported during The period
These fgures seem 10 justify the prediction that
tire value OF manufactures sent out from rho ports
u the Io!te4 States !g tEe fiscal ysar 1905 viii OK
coed those Of any preceding year. md VIII also "N-
coed the imports Of manufactures during that same
period
The table which follows shows the value Of manu-
features exported IA March and the mine months
ended with March in each tscaI year, from 1880 90
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