The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-15
COMMERCE AND WAR.


: Commerce and Labor through ii
5 Bureau of Statistics. The statemen
covers the eight months ending wit
February, 1904, and compares condi
lions in those eight months with cor
responding periods of earlier years
The total exports from the Unite'
States to all parts of the world durin'
the eight months ending with Febru
airy, 1904. were valued at 1,04S millions
against 9S2 millions in the correspond
ing months of last year, and the i'm
ports were 654 millions in value agains
6S1 million dollars in the correspond
ing months of last year.
To Europe the exports from the Unit
ed States were 7S5 millions against 72S
months of last year, and the imports
were 341 millions in value against 81
millions in the corresponding months
of last year. Thus the exports to
Europe show an increase of 81 million
dollars and the imports from Europe
decrease of 40 million dollars in the
eight months period under considera-
ton. To North America, other than
the United States, our exports were
$50 millions against 135 millions in the
corresponding months of last year. an
increase of Is million dollars, and from
North America, other than the United
States, our imports were 11S millions
against 116 millions, a decrease of 3
millions. To South America our ex-
ports were So millions against 81 mil
lions last year, and from South Amer
lea our imports were SO millions
months of last year. To Asia our ex-
ports were SO millions against Al mill |
lions in the eight months of last year,
and our imports from Asia were 81 |
millions against 104 millions in the cor
months of last year. To |
Oceania our exports We're % millions |
against 26 millions in the correspond
ng months of last year, and our inn
ports from Oceania We're IA millions
against IA millions in the same months
If the preceding year. To Africa our
Exports were II millions against 25 mil
ions in the corresponding months of
asst year, and from Africa our imports
we're millions against millions in
he same months of the preceding fiscal
ear. Thus, the increase in exports is
exclusively to Europe, North and
south America, while Asia, Oceania,
nd Africa show, in each case, a de-
rease.
To Asia the reduction is presumably
ue in part to existing hostilities which
nsettled trade and in part to the very !
Ugh prices of cotton, which reduced
he exports of cotton to Japan from
D million pounds in the eight months :
nding with February, 1908, to 20 mil 1
on pounds in the eight months end
1g with February, 1904 making the
eduetion in value of raw cotton ex-
orted to Japan alone about Az million
ollars.
To China exports from the United
tates continue to show a marked re-
uction as compared with the proceed
lg two years. Our total exports to
he Chinese Empire for the eight
lonths ending with February. 1904,
ere IS, ia. $50, against s12, 44O,SS1 in the h
months of last year, and l
Is, 4es. 220 in the same months of the
seal year 1902. For the month of
'ebruary, 1904, our exports to China r
-ere s1,ss4.42S, against s2,O22,67e in ]
ebruary, 1908. This reduction is APP
arently due in part to the hostilities
northern China, which have had a
cry general effect upon trade condi-
ons in that Empire, in part to the
lvasion of the markets of China by
otton cloths from Japan, and in part
, the growing manufacture of cotton :,
9th produced largely from yerns i'm n
orted from Japan and India, consum- a
i in part in the cotton factories re- p
emily established in China and largely
attributed for use in household weav-
lg of cotton cloths for domestic re-
uirements. Still another important :
ause is. as already noted, the great 1
lcrease in prices of cotton cloths due
D the high price of cotton during the
asst year. The reduction in exporta- Z
IONS of cotton cloths from the United
tates to China was from s1O.os4,Ss in
he eight months ending with Febru-
ry. 1902, to s2,762,o7s in the eight :
months ending with February of this
ear.
To other sections of the Orient our !
Exports show an increase, the total to {
Asia in the eight months ending with i
february being sss.s66.741, against SAL !
1882 in the same months of last !