New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-23
RECORD IN EXPORTS.
This Country Had a Billion and a
Half Dollars Worth Last Year.
TFRoM THE rnInrSr BUREAU. |

Washington Jan 2-Nearly $3.50 10000 worth
Of exports were contributed TO the markets Of the
world by the United States n 1893 easily surpass-
ing oil earlier records. ard The closing month or
the year established a maximum for monthly
exports. All figures Of volume and value which
few years ago stirred mp foreign agitation against
the dreaded Yankee invasion have been completely
surpassed by a growth which seems 10 be steady
and permanent. The calendar years export figures.
Just completed by the Department Of Commerce
and Labor aggregate s1fS4.eGSlZ. and those Of the
month OF December s17l. 734.36S The highest pre-
ceding record fo- any calendar year was that OF
1909 when the total exports were 81 AZ 6113. and
the highest preceding record for a single month
that Of October. 1900 when the total was
sI6s Ss96s6
1t was not until October 1881 that the exports OF
any month reached much $l0o01Ooo. and il
until 1886 that the exports of any calendar
year reached much 100000 During the
four months Of October. November and December.
1881 and January 1892 exports were for the first
time above the $4,000 900 line but in February, 12
dropped again below that line. and continued
until the close of 1896. when October, Novem-
Der and December again passed. respectively, the
slooeo.o1 line From that time forward monthly
exports in of 100000 We're frequent. and
from August. lss9 to the present time they have
never fallen below S100000.oOd except in the mid
summer months Of June. July and August Of 1902
and 1868. respectively.
The annual expectation nearly touched the sl,oeo,-
100000 line in 1881 and 1892 being in 1891 O0o,
and in 1892 1888 OOocO but dropped 1876 100000 in
1888, ss25 ocoo in lss Ss2iOOoOOo in 1885. barely
crossing the S.oodo0.0e0 line in 1895, but moving
steadily and rapidly forward since that date Com
pairing conditions in 1903 with those of compare
lively recent years. il MAJ be said that the total
exports IL 1903 exceeded those OF 1891 by 50 per cent
and those Of 1895 by 50 per cent. Extending the
study stili further back. il may be said that the
exports of 1888 were. in round terms, double those
OF 1858 Two and half times those Of 1873 and four
times those OF 1859.
Owing 10 the very marked decrease In imports in
Deoember, which month showed fall OF about
s7t0D0Oo, compared with December OF the pre-
ceding year the total of imports did touch the
q con. 0100 600 line, had been expected, but
within about s45Oo00o OF that being S9e 47310
This leaves the table OF calendar years without a
81 oo0Oeeo record up 10 this time though the fiscal
year statement did show than So00,o00fzO OF
imports in the year ended June 80 1903
A comparison Of conditions in the foreign
nerce of the United States in 1893 with those OF 1898
shows thai the imports OF 1903 exceeded those OF
1898 by Slsco0O00. and that the exports of 1903
ceeded those of 1885 by Ss)so0o0e0 Carrying the
comparison stt0 further back. IL is found that the
imports OF 1903 exceeded those of 1888 by sos 000)
and thai the exports of 1905 exceeded those 1893
by 100000 Z comparison with 1873 shows that
the imports Of 1893 exceeded those 1873 by s4Oo
o00,0G and the exports of 1893 exceeded those of
1873 by ssl7,9o.OOo Thus imports increased 81 per
cent from 1873 1903 while exports increased
per cent during the time.