The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-11
INCREASED EXPORTS.


! democrats who had hoped to cam
nafgn this year on hard times issue
yin ind little to cheer them In the
STATISTICS of our foreign export COM
r,ArcA which. in the fiscal year 1904
was the largest in American history
The Department OF Commerce and
f, Labor shows, taking up the figures IN
detail that the total exports during
the year ending June 80, 1904, are 81
| 4eo 500 $40 against $1.420,1 41,67s in the
fiscal wear 1908. an increase of s4o,6SI'-
seo. thar the imports for the year are
seeo 745oS4 against $1.025, 1929 in 1903
decrease of Ss4.s74.153; and that the
axcass of exports over imports is s47o,-
os4 455. against 1894. AZ, 442 in 1903. an
ircraasa Of s75. co.. o1S in the excess of
exports over imports.
Comparing the figures of 1904 with
those of earlier years, it may be SAID
THAR the total exports are larger than
in any preceding year except 1901, that
the imports are greater than IN any
preceding year except 1903; and that
the total cornmerce-the imports and
exports combined-in 1904 is greater
than that of any preceding year Ihe
total commerce of the year amounts
To 81 451. 574. 623. against $2,445, 860,916 in
1903 and 81. 80, 937, 156 in 1901, the years
in which imports and exports, respec-
lively. made higher records than those
of 1904 Thus. while neither imports
nor exports for 1904 reach the high rec
ord of a single earlier year the total
of imports and exports combined in
1904 exceeds the total commerce of any
earlier year.
In manufactures the exports of the
year will make their highest record.
While the figures of manufactures ex-
ported for the full fiscal year 1904 have
not vet been completed by the Bureau
of Statistics, the fact that the eleven
months figures already completed ex-
coed by seventeen million dollars those
of the corresponding period of the rec
Z
the total exports of manufactures in
1904 will be greater than those of any
preceding year.
1t is also apparent that the exports
: of domestic products from the United
States in the fiscal year just ended
will exceed those of any other country.
The United Kingdom is, next to the
United States. the worlds largest ex-
porter of domestic products, and until
within recent years surpassed the Unit
ed States in it's total During recent
years, however, the United States has
rapidly gained upon and finally over
taken the United Kingdom in the race
for supremacy as an exporter of do
nestle products.
The first year in which the exports
of domestic products from the United
States exceeded those from the United
Kingdom was 1898, the excess in our
favor in that year being about ninety
eight million dollars. In 1899 the pen
dulum swung the other way, the ex-
ports from the United Kingdom ex-
ceeding those from the United States
by about thirty-five million dollars.
In 1900 those from the United States
exceeded those from the United King
dom by about thirty-five million dol
lars. In the year ending June 80, 1902,
those of the United States exceeded
those of the United Kingdom by about
eight million dollars. In the fiscal year
1903 the United Kingdom was again at
the front. her total of domestic ex-
ports exceeding that of the United
States by twenty-five million dollars
In the fiscal year 1904 the United States
will apparently be again in the lead,
since figures of eleven months already
in hand show for that period an ex-
cess of thirty-eight million dollars in
favor of the United States.