The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-03-01
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More than one-half Of the exports
from the United states in 1903 went
to British territory. and practically
one-halt of the imports into the Unit
ed States came from British teritory
Our total exports to British territory
in the calendar year 1903 we're 76S
million dollars, or SO per cent Of our
total exports, and our total Imports
from British territory 30s millions. or
81 per cent OF the total speaking in
round terms. These facts are shown
by an analysis of the years commerce
made by the department of commerce
and labor through its bureau of sta
tistics BY British territory its meant
the United Kingdom and its colonies,
dependencies. and protectora'es.
The territory included under this
designation of the United Kingdom
and its colonies, dependencies and
protectorates contains over II million
square miles, or more than one-ffth
of the land surface OF the globe, and
has population Of 400 millions, OF
onefcurth Of the population of the
world The largest expectation to
British territory, of course, was to the
United Kingdom-543 million dollars
and this was the largest expectation
to any single country Next In order
Of magnitude of exports to British ter
rltory was Canada, l31 millions; Brit
ish Australasia, 80 millions; British
Africa. 2S millions; British West In
dies. 10 millions; Hong Kong, nearly
10 millions; India, nearly millions;
adm the remainder scattered through
the smaller British dependencies.
Of the 30S million dollars worth of
imports into the United States from
British territory. III millions, speak
ing in round terms. came from the
United Kingdom. SO millions from
Canada, AZ millions from India, 12
from British West Indies, 7
millions from Australia, one million
iollars' worth from British Africa, and
he remainder from numerous British
of less importance
Thus, of the foreign commerce Of
he United States aggregatng nearly |
~ billion dollars in the calendar year
1903, more than one billion dollars
commerce with Bri ish
erritory
Next in order Of magnitude of com |
mercial transactions with given coun- I
tries is Germany, to which our ex-
ports in 1903 were 225 millions. With |
German territory, outside of Germany,
our commerce is small
Our commerce with Germany has
grown much more rapidly in the last
lecade than that with the United |
Kingdom. In 1898 our exports TO Ger
many we're only So million dollars, in /
1908 they were 225 millions, an in
,rease OF over 15O per cen,
Canada stands third in the order OF
Of exports from the Unit {
"a ates, though that county has been
included in the general discussion of
our commerce with British territory. |
Our total exports to Canada in 1898
we've 81 million dollars. and in 1903 |
l2l millions, an increase OF about 13
Der cent; while our imports from Can
ada grew from "a millions in 1898 to
80 millions in 1908, an Increase of Sc
pes cett.
France is fourth in the magnitude of
commerce with the United States,
our exports to that country in 1908
being So million dollars, against 81
in 1898, while our imports
from France were so millions in 1908,
against CA millions in 1898.
Netherlands is next in the list, our
exports TO that country in 1903 be
'ng 73 million dollars, against 43 mil
lions IN 1893, and our exports from