The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-14
TRADE WITH CANADA.

| of the United States IN series y
tables included in the Annual Repor
of the Chief of the Bureau of Staus
tics, just made public by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, while
tables also received by the. Bureau Of
Statistics from the Canadian govern
ment present a picture of that trade
from the Canadian standpoint. Curious
~, while the two statements relate te
the same trade and are presented for
fiscal years which terminate in each
case on June 80, the figures of values
differ materially.
The statement of the United States
exports to Canada for the fiscal year
| ending June 80. 1904, shows q total OF
| s131. 274.S46 while the Canadian state
ment of imports from the United
| States which should include only the
| articles classified as exports from the
| United States TO Canada, shows total
value of such imports of $143, OlO,ofS,
or a total twelve million dollars greater
than the United States statement of
export values of presumably the same
articles. An examination of the Cana
dian and United States figures for
other years also shows a material diff
ference of statement. In the fiscal
year 1908 the Canadian figures of inn
ports from the United states exceed by
five millions the figures OF the United
states showing exports to Canada, and
this is true of the figures for the fiscal
year 1902.
This fact that the Canadian state
ment of imports from the United States
exceeds in total the statement of ex-
ports from the United States to Cana
da for the corresponding period of time
is not an unusual development in COM
pairing the export figures of the United
States with the import figures of other
countries. In many cases the figures of
the importing country, which include
only the articles exported from the
United States to that country. show a
larger total of value than do the figures
of the United States in stating the
value of the same articles when ex-
ported A striking illustration of this
general fact is found in some figures
recently compiled by the Bureau of
Statistics, which showed the total i'm |
portations from the United States of
each country of the world in 1902, save
in few exceptional cases where fig {
ures of 1901 We're the latest available
A standardization of these national
of imports from the United
States in 1902 shows a grand total of
he worlds imports from the United
states of 81. $50, 900, 600, while the United
States statement of the value of ex-
ports to all countries of the world in
hat year was s1,S6O, 100000. a difference
If .230 million dollars, or II per cent
anger when stated as imports by the
,arious countries of the world than
when stated as exports by the United
states.
Another Illustration of this general
act, that imports are always valued
higher than the corresponding articles
yhen exported, is found in the fact
hat the total value of inportations
# all countries of the world for which .
ecerds are available is shown by the {
eport of the Chief of the Bureau of
statistics, just issued, at S11, 500, 1884,
90, while the exports of all countries, ,
which, of course, must form the i'm
orts, We're valued for the correspond {
ng year at only 1854, s32. 900. differ
nee of s1.354, $4,000, or Is per cent
anger when stated as imports than
When stated as exports. {;
While the figures of the Canadian ,
government and those of the United ,
states differ somewhat as to the value I
f the commerce passing between them, !
hey sufficiently agree to show that the .
growth of that commerce has been very
apid. Exports from the United States
% Canada have increased, according
% the figures of the United States,
rom twenty-four million dollars in
s54 to $1S1,OOO,oOO in 1904, period of
fifty years. Most of this growth. how
ever, has occurred in the last decade.
From 1854 to 1894, period of forty
years. the increase. as shown by the
1gures of the Bureau of Statistics, was
put thirty-two million dollars, the
figure for 1894 being fifty-six million
dollars; while from 1894 to 1904. ten
years period. the increase was seventy
i've millions. In the forty years prior
to 1894 exports from the United States
to Canada increased thlrty-two mill
ion dollars; dn the ten years subse-
luent to 1894 they increased seventy
i've millions
THE THlBETAN TREATY.
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