The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-24
HAWAIl'S
MAINLAND
COMMERCE
U. S. bulletin.

The commerce OF the United States
with its noncontiguous territories aggre-
gated more than 100 million dollars in
the fiscal year just ended. Under the
term noncontiguous territory are in
cluded Porto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands,
the Philippine Islands, Guam, Tutuila
and Alaska The reports of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor,
through its bureau of Statistics, show
that the total shipments of merchandise
from the United States to all of these
noncontiguous possessions in the fiscal
year 1904 was $4,000, 528 and the value
Of merchandise received from them $50,
1879. Adding to these the gold bullion
produced in Alaska and shipped to the
United States, the total is $Io3,5S6 1903.
The merchandise sent from the United
States to the markets of these noncon-
tiguous territories included chiefly
Ibreadshuffs, provisions and manufactures
of all classes. To Porto Rico shipments
Iof breadstuffs amounted to SI,o84,6 o4 of
which $o83,I5I was -four. Cotton ship
ments to Porto Rico amounted TO ST.
I67o,oo5, of which $Iooo,o76 was cotton
cloths. Iron and steel manufactures
amounted to SI,oI3 o6I, and provisions,
i$I,Io2,oI6, while the total value of do
lmestic merchandise shipped from the
United States to Porto Rico was $Io,
Iz27,oI5, and of foreign merchandise
/ S4S3, o45.
The principal articles received from
Porto Rico were sugar, valued at So
Ioo7 600; tobacco, $I,72I,o o2; fruits and
nuts, $426o7o; coffee S27o,46I, and other
articles, $I52, 344, making total of SILL
l576,oI2 of domestic products of Porto
Rico shipped to the United States. For
eign goods to the value of $I45,oI4 were
Ialso shipped from Porto Rico to the
United States. In addition to this, the
Iexports from Porto Rico to foreign
countries amounted to SI,o58,o6o.
The shipments of domestic merchan-
disc to Hawaii during the fiscal year 1904
amounted to $II ,oo2, $50, OF which
l$I,5Iz,3II was breadstuffs, $I,o2o,I25
cotton manufacture, $I,453, $50 manu-
features of iron and steel, $o6e,763 min
leral oil, and the remainder miscellaneous
merchandise of all descriptions, chiefly
manufactures. The merchandise re-
Iceived into the United States from the
Hawaiian Islands during the year
lamounted to $25,I33.sa3 in value, of
which sugar amounted to $2435e,385,
representing 736.4oI ,oo2 pounds.
To the Philippine Islands the ship
lments of domestic merchandise from the
limited States amounted to S4,83I, 800, of
which $7z8,767 was manufactures of iron
and steel, S322 ESQ cotton manufactures,
IS268. 5zs manufactures of leather, S4I8,-
1888 refined mineral oil, S3II,IoI provis-
ions. and S62I,I7I wood and rnanufac-
lures thereof. From the Philippines the
value of merchandise received into the
United States was SI2,o66o31. OF which
ISII ,o447So was manila hemp and SS84,-
100 sugar, representing oI,57o,oI4
pounds.
To Alaska the shipments from the
limited States during the fiscal year
amounted to $o86o72I of domestic mer-
chandise and $2o5,3So of foreign goods:
The principal shipments consisted OF
provisions, oI.I65,27I in value; manu-
| features OF iron and steel, S2,I2o,o5I, and
wood and manufactures thereof. So57 500.
| The receipts of merchandise from Alaska
amounted to SIoIoo.ISI of domestic
chandise and of $64,e3o of foreign goods.
! Canned salmon to the value OF SS,552,-
oS5 was shipped from Alaska to the
| United States The shipments to- the
| United States of gold produced from
mines in Alaska amounted to So,32S,524
| To Guam, the Midway Islands, and
Tutuila the shipments of domestic mer-
chandise from the United States amount
ed to S1oooos, against $oo6I4 IN the
preceding year.
IMPORTS FROM NONCONTIGU-
| Gus TERRITORY, 1904 AND 1904.
Value of merchandise entering the
United States from its noncontguous
territory in 1904 compared with 1894;
Noncontiguous
territories. 1904 1904
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