The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-18
EXPORTS TO THE ORIENT.

- as compared with Garner
Zach Of the countries named the expoi
: for the nine months ending with sep
. ternber are larger than those of tn
corresponding months of 1903, while il
the case of China the figures, although
showing a marked increase over 1903
/ still. fall slightly below those of 1902
but when combined with the figures OF
exports to Hongkong give total great
er than that for the corresponding
months of 1902 or 1903.
The total exports from the United
states TO Russia, Japan. China, Hons-
kong. and Korea are shown by the De-
partment OF Commerce and Labor
Through its Bureau of statistics as Soo,-
44s, 225 in the nine months ending with
! September, 1904. against $780,, 1866 in
the corresponding months of 1908, and
$47. 663.oS1 in the corresponding months
of 1902.
Similar conditions prevail with refer
ence to imports into the United States
from the countries in question. From
( Russia, Japan, China, Hongkong.- and
Korea the imports for the nine months
/ ending with September, 1904, are in
each case larger than in the cor
i responding months of the preceding
| year. The total imports into the Unit
ed states from the countries named
amounted to sos, 3S9O22 in the nine
months ending with September, 1904,
against $50, S75, s25 in the corresponding
months of 1903 and SIS, 54o.2 5s in the cor
responding months of 1902
In nost of the principal articles COM
posing the commerce between the Unit
ed States and these countries there ap-
pears material increase in the figures
of 1904 as compared with earlier years
To Russia the principal articles of our
export trade are agricultural imple-
ments, manufactures OF iron and steel,
copper, naval stores, and raw cotton,
and in most of these the figures of 19u4
compare favorably with those of earh-
er years.
To japan the principal exports are
eral oils. flour, provisions, tobacco, and
raw cotton. In nearly all of these
articles, or classes of articles. except
cotton. the figures for 1904 show an in
crease over 1903. In cotton the figures
show a marked decline in exports to
Japan, the total value of cotton ex-
months ending with September. 1904, |
being less than two million dollars, |
against over three millions in the CORE
spending months in 1903 and nearly six
millions in the corresponding months
of 1902. This falling off in the exports
of cotton to Japan is chiefly due to the
extremely high price OF American cot
ton during the past two years and to
the fact that japanese manufacturers |
of cotton goods have substituted in part
the shorter stapled and consequently |
lower-priced cotton of India in their
manufacturing.
In other articles the figures of 1904
show. a gain over earlier years. The |
value of -four exported to Japan in the |
nine months ending with September, |
1904, is s2,s10.20S, against s2,563, 069 in |
the corresponding months of 1903 and |
$917, 625 in the corresponding months of |
1902 Electrical machinery exported to |
Japan shows a marked increase in 1904, |
being s755,955 during the nine months
ending with September, against $214,-
255 in therorresponding months of 1893
and $131, 10S in the corresponding
months of 1902. Locomotives exported |
to Japan in the nine months ending |
with September, 1904, were So in num- |
Der, against IS in the corresponding
period in 1903 and IL in the correspond
ing period of 1902, the value for the
nine months of 1904 being s442. 100, as
compared with s17S,21S in the CORE
spending months of 1903 and Sill, 1852 in
the corresponding months of 1902. steel
rails exported from the United States
to Japan during the nine months end
ing with September. 1904, amounted to
s6S0,6s9, while the corresp onding months
of 1903 show no exports of steel rails to
japan, and for the corresponding
months of 1902 a total of but s2,1e5.
Mineral oils exported to Japan in the
nine months ending with September,
1904, amounted to s2,ssS. 52s gallons,
against 27.Ss4,251 gallons in the CORE
spending months in 1903.
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