Arizona republican., 1904-03-14
COMMERCIAL JAP AN
Figures by the Bureau of
 Statistics
This Trade and That of Other Terri tory Within the Range of the War Amounts to 60O,OOO, ,OOO.

Washington, March 13.-"Commer- cial Japan in 1904" Commercial Rus ssia in 1904, commercial Korea in 1904 and "Commercial China in 1904" are the titles of monographs just pre- pared by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of sta
 tistlcs. These monographs, which dis cuss commercial and other conditions
 in the countries in question. are now
 in the hands of the printers and will
 be published as a part of the monthly
 summary of commerce and finance,
 portion in the issue to be made within
 few days, and the remainder in the
 issue at the close of the present
 month. They discuss commerce and
 commercial conditions in each of the
 countries in question, not only at the
 present time, but the history of their commerce, their trade relations with
 the various parts of the world and with each other, the total value of their present commerce compared with
 that of earlier years, their trade with
 the United States, with other leading
 countries of the world, and with each
 other. Many other important facts re-
 garding conditions in those countries are also discussed, such as railways, tclegraphs, routes of communication.
 manufacturing industries, the class of merchandise imported, and the class of merchandise exported.
 The total commerce of the territory fronting upon and Immediately adja- cent to the scene of present hcstilities aggregates, in round terms, about $600, ,000,00O. of which considerably more than one-half is imports. Japans commerce is/about equally divided be- tween imports and exports, but in the case of China and Asiatic Russia inn ports greatly exceed exports, and this is also true of Hongkong, which passes
 most of it's imports on into China and
 draws from China most of the articles which becomes its exports. Probably three-fifths of the total commerce of the countries in question, taken as a
 whole, is in the form of imports, and
 the United States is year by year SUD- /, plying larger share of those imports
 of the countries in question and gain i ing upon other countries in ! the relative share which it supplies | thereof. Of the exports from the coun- | tries named the United States is the ! largest single purchaser. The tea, the raw silk, the manufa ctured silk, the rice, the mattings, and other products ! of this character which form tha bulk | of the exports of China and Japan go more largely to the United States than ] to any other single country of the world, while as to Asiatic Russia and i Korea their exports are at present so small as to be of little importance in | a. discussion of the commerce of the
 countries in question.
 The more important of the exports of
 the United States to the section in
 question are cotton and cotton goods, i kerosene, flour, lumber, manufactures i of iron and steel, manufacturers of | leather and tobacco Raw cotton ex- l ported to this particular section of the world goes chiefly to Japan. and the market in Japan for American cot | ton is influenced largely by the sur l plus of cotton in India, which is of shorter staple and therefore of lower II price. In years of short supply in | India Japan turns to the United States for it's raw cotton but in years of plentiful supply in India a large pro- portion Of the raw cotton purchcs ses
 Of Japan are the product of India. Tn
 cotton manufactures to China in the important customer. The exports of
 cottor manufacturers to China in the past year have materially fallen off.
 though the reduction in imports of
 American cotton into China is no
 greater proportionately than the re- | duction in such imports from other