Arizona republican., 1904-04-04
This COuntry's Share of It
 for Eight Months
THE DISTRIBUTION OF II
Exports of the United States Exceeded Q Billion Dollars-Imports Were Re-
 duced Thirty Millions in Compari-
 son With the Year Before.


 ing figures regarding the commerce of the United States with the various countries of the world are presented in the usual monthly statement issued by the department of commerce and la Dor through its bureau of statistics. The statement covers eight months ending. with February. 1904, and com pares conditions in those eight months with corresponding periods of earlier years. The total exports from the Un- tied States to all parts of the world during the eight months ending with February. 1904 were valued at $104S,- 00c,000 against $9S2 0O0, ,0000 in the cor responding months of last year, and the imports were $654. 4.OOO. .OoO in value against sGS1, 100000 in the correspond ing month of last year.
 To Europe the exports from the Un- ited States were $7S5, ,0O0, 600 against SIPS, ,000,000 in the corresponding month of last year. Thus the exports to Eu- rope show an increase of s57, 900, GOO and the imports from Europe a decrease of s40.O00000 in the eight months period under consideration. To North Ameri- ca, other than the United States, our exports were s15O,000,0O against s135,- 000,C eco in the corresponding months of last year, stn increase of $15, ,000, coo, and from North America, other than the United States, our imports were $113,- 100000 against SIG, GOO 900, a decrease of S3,000, eco. To South. America our ex-. ports were $25,O00,000 against 27000,- 000 last year. and from South America our imports were $S3, 100000 against s6S, ,00C, 900 in the corresponding months of last year. To Asia our exports were s39, ,O00 coo against s41, ,0O0, GOO in the eight months of last year, and our i'm ports from Asia were S97 900 900 against $1O400O,0 900 in the correspond ing months of last year. To Oceania our our exports were S23,OQO 900 millions against S260o0000 in the corresponding months of last year, and our imports from Oceania were S14,0G0000 against S14, ,000 .O00 in the same months of the preceding year. To Africa our exports S17, ,0O0, 900 against s25,0OO,00O in the corresponding months of last year, and from Africa our imports were s6, GOO, GOO against s9, ,OOO 900 in the same months of the preceding fiscal year. Thus the increase of exports is eX- cluslvely tc Europe, North and South America, while Asia, OceaniaJ and Af- rica show n each case decrease.
 To Asia the reduction is presumably due in part to the existing hostilities which unsettled trade and in part to the very high prices of cotton, which reduced the exports of cotton to Japan from 7O,OOOOOO pounds in the eight months ending with February, 1903, to 20 COG. 900 pounds in the eight months ending with February, 1904. making the reduction in the value of raw cotton exported to Japan alone about $4.5OO,- 900. To Oceania the reduction occurs in the exports to British Australasia. this decrease occurred chiefly during the months of January and February and is apparently due in a large degree to the adoption of a preferential tarift in New Zealand. the details of which were so little known in the latter part of the year as to cause a suspension of exports to New Zealand pending more definite information as to the exact rates which the new tariff places on merchandise from the United States in comparison with like products from the United Kingdom.
 Similar conditions in British South Africa are apparently the chief cause in the reduction of exports to Africa, which fell, as already noted, from S25,- uUD,UUU III lLS GlSl lll AilCAASA-7 ~A-NA---o mary. 1909. to ST. 900, 900 in the corre- sponding months ending with Febru- arv. 1904. All of the British territories in South.Africa are included in the Af- rican Customs Union, and the preferen- tial tariff adopted by that customs union gives to the products of the Un- tied Kingdom materially lower tariff rates than on those from other coun- tries. the reduction in tariff ranging from five to twenty-five per cent While tariff reductions of this charac- ter when applied in Canada have not apparently resulted in a reduction Of exports from the United States to that country after the details were under stood by our manufacturers, the un- certainty as to details, article by artl- cle. which existed in the early applca- tion of the preferential tariff rates in New Zealand and South Africa is be- lieved to be the chief cause Of the tenn porary check apparent in the exports to those countries.
 To Canada, where the preferential tariff has been sufficiently long in oper- ation for its details to be thoroughly understood, exports from the United States show a steady growth, the total for the eight months ending with Feb
 
 ruary, 1904. being $S1, ,66O,4 ,462, against S75.17O.15O in the corresponding months of the preceding year, and $70,1T4,6O2 in the same months of the fiscal year 1902
 The effect of reciprocity With Cuba begins to make itself apparent in the figures of our commerce with that is land. Exports from the United States to Cuba during February, 1904, were s2.152, BPS, against $1, 1,595,97S in February last year, and for the eight months ending with February, 1904, were $16,- S9S.SS4, against s14,O66.51S in the corre- spending months of the preceding year. Our imports from Cuba in February, 1904, were s7,711,7O4 against $4,01S,4o3 in February, 1903, and our total imports from that island in the eight months ending with February, 1904, were $S5,- 22S, ,760, against $94.5O6,9O1 In the corre- spending months of last year.