Arizona republican., 1904-03-21
MASS OF FIGURES
Our Commercial Relation
 With the World
A Statistical Abstract for Last Year Issued by the Department of Com. merce and Labor.

Washington, March 20.-The statisti- cal abstract of the United States for the year 1903. issued by the department of commerce and labor through it's bureau of statistics, has just made it's appearance. It is a solid mass of $50 pages of figures. with scarcely a line of ''readng matter other than the tables of figures and their necessary headlines. Yet a study of its tabular statements develops many interesting facts about the United States, its pro- gress, development, and relation to the other countries of the world. It is in teresting, for example. to observe, as shown on page 564, that the exports of domestic products from the United States now exceeds those of any other country of the world. They amounted to $1,392, ,000, against S1,379, ,2S3, 900 from the United Kingdom, S1,113, 313, GOO from Germany, $S2O,671,OOO from France, and S732, ,975, ,000 from Neither lands. In imports the United States stands third, the worlds largest inn porter being the United Kingdom, S2,
 571, ,416, 0OO; Germany second, S1,340, IFS,
 900; the United States third, S1,O25, 719.
 GOO; Netherlands fourth, sS67, ,SOS, 900, anu IdlCS HUI, SotoiOtO,OOU. Ht above figures of imports and exports are, in the case of the United States, for the year ending June 30. 1903; the others, the calendar year 1902.
 Regarding the details of the foreign commerce of the United States. the abstract shows that T2 per cent. of the | exports were Sent to Europe, 15 per |, cent. to North America, and the re- nlainder distributed in much smaller
 percentages to South America, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. The total value of the exports from the United States
 to Europe in 1903 was S1,O29, ,256, ,0O0; to
 North America, $215, ,4S3, GOO; to South
 America, $41 1SS, coo; to Asia, S5S,359.- 900; to Oceania, $37, ,46S, ,OOO, and tc 1 Africa, $3S, 437, 900. Considering the ex- ports from countries, the largest tota | is to the United Kingdom, $524. 4.263, 900; the next largest to Germany, $193, ,S42,- coo; and to Canada, $123, ,267 900.
 1 Comparing conditions in 1903 witt those of 1873. the exports have growr
 from $522, ,000, GOO to Sl,42O, GOO, GOO, includ. ! ing domestic products and foreigr
 merchandise re-eXported. Agricultur- | al products of course still form the ! largest group of exports, amounting tI
 $S73, 900, coo in 1903, or 63 per cent. of thC | total, while manufactures amount tC l $407, ,O00, or 29 per cent. of the total Manufactures are, however, gaining rapidly upon agricultural products 1T ! the share which they form of the tota exports. In 1880 agricultural product! ! formed S3 per cent and manufacture. 1 but F 1-2 per cent. of the total export!
 of domestic products, while in 1903, al already indicated, agricultural pro : ducts formed 63 per cent. and manu factures over 29 per cent. of the total
 The value of domestic manufacture exported had never reached so mucl as 00,000,0OO prior to 1876, and in 1S9 for the first time crossed the $200 900
 coo line. Since 1896, however, tn | growth has been rapid, the total ex ceeding $500, ,000,00O in 1S99 passin! above S4OO, 100000 constantly since tha
 date, with prospect that the total ex ports of manufactures for the flsca year 1904 will exceed in value thos of any previous year.