The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-01-05
A VALUABLE MARKET

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ket is the subject of SOME special at
tention at the present time by reasoh
NJ n report upon that subject recently
presented to the British Parliament
This report shows that the British col
o,ies in South Africa have become OF
greater Importance than any other III
the British colonies except INDIA. Ten
years ago." 1t says, Great Brltai1
exports to South Africa were valued at
a little under nine million oouncs
sterling; last year they almost reacheu
twenty-six millions. In 1893 South ART
IN stood sixth on the list OF Great Brit
aims customers; last year she STOOD
second, and was only beaten by india.
II Is no rash prediction that this year
she will pass India and stand first on
the list as the largest buyer In the
world of the produce and manufac-
lures of the mother country
This statement of the great impor-
lance and rapidly growing importance
of South Africa as an importing couh-
try lends especial interest to some nS-
ures Just prepared by the Department
of Commerce and Labor through us
Bureau of Statistics, showing tne
growth of exports from the United
states to British Africa and to Africa
as a whole. These figures show that
the exports from the United States to
British Africa have grown with even
greater rapidity than those from the
limited Kingdom referred to by the re-
mort above quoted. Exports from the
United States to British Africa grew
from SO, 6SS, 999 in 1893 to $33,S44,395 N
do
times as much in 1903 as in 1898, whl'e
exports from the United Kingdom 10
South Africa grew from $S9,ss6oVo IN
1893 to SIZE, 100000 in 1902, the 1908 lS-
ures not being yet available. mus
while exports from the United States
TO British Africa are in 1908 nine times
those of 1898, those from the Uniten
Kingdom were in 1902 but three times
as much as those in 1893.
The relative growth of exports from
the United States and from the United
Kingdom to the territory in question
can be more accurately determined by
utilizing the figures of the United states
for the year 1902, since the figures Tor
the United Kingdom for the, year 1898
are not vet available. This shows THAI
the exports from the United States %
British Africa grew from S3,6SS,999 IN
1893 to s2S, 7S0, 105 in 1902, the total for
1902 being nearly eight times as great
as that for 1898; while, as already indi-
Gated, that of the United Kingdom for
1902 was only three times as great as
In 1893.
The total exports from the United
States to Africa have grown with great
rapidity-from $5,196,4S0 in 1898 to $751;
1856, S53 in 1908, being more than seven
times as much in 1903 as in 1893; while
to Asia and Oceania our exports grew
from 2S,O64,03S in 1898 to $95, S21,52S n
1903 to South America, from $32,639,on
in 1893 to $4l, 137,S72 in 1908; to North
America, other than the United States
from s1l9, 7SS,SS9 in 1893 to $2l5, 49,, 6o
in 1903; and to Europe, from $66l916,l
in 1898 to s1,O29, 256,657 in 1903.
That there is still room for a growth
in exports to South Africa, and that
our share in supplying that market stiil
falls far below that of the United King
dom, is evident from the fact that the
total value of merchandise exported
from Great Britain to her South African
colonies in 1902, was Sl25,2S0, O00 against
a total of $2S,7S0,l05 exported from the
United States in that year to all Brit
Ish possessions in Africa.