The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-08-12
INCREASED EXPORTS.

Democrats. who had hoped to cam
paign this year on a hard times issue,
/ will End little to cheer them in the
statistics of our foreign export COM
merce which. in the fiscal year 1904,
was the largest In American history.
| The Department OF Commerce and
I Labor shows. taking up the figures in
detail that the total exports during
the year ending June 30, 1904, are ST.
I 400 s2s. $50, against s1,42O141.G7s in the
! fiscal year 1903. an increase Of 40,6s7,-
, $50; that the imports for the year are
1890, 745,0s4, against sl,025, 1929 in 1903,
b a decrease of s34,974.153; and that the
excess Of exports over imports Is s470.-
os4, i55, against 1894, 422,442 in 1903, an
increase OF s75,662. 013 in the excess of
exports over imports.
Comparing the figures of 1904 with
those of earlier years, 1t may be said
that the total exports are larger than
in any preceding year except 1901 that
the imports are greater than in any
preceding year except 1903; and that
the total commerce-the imports and
exports combined-in 1904 is greater
than that of any preceding year. The
total commerce of the year amounts
to s2,45l, 574 ,623, against s2,4i5, s60,916 in
1908 and s., $40, 1897, 156 in 1901, the years
in which imports and exports, respec-
lively, made higher records tnan those
of 1904. Thus, while neither imports
nor exports for 1904 reach the high rec
ord of a single earlier year the total
of imports. and exports combined in
1904 exceeds the total commerce of any
earlier year
In manufactures the exports of the
year will make their highest record.
While the figures of manufactures ex-
ported for the full fiscal year 1904 have
not yet been completed by the Bureau
Of Statistics, the fact that the eleven
months figures already completed ex-
coed by seventeen million dollars those
of the corresponding period OF the rec
ord year, 1900 makes it apparent that
the total exports of manufactures in
1904 will be greater than those of any
preceding year.
1t is also apparent that the exports
of domestic products from the United
States in the fiscal year just ended
will exceed those of any other country.
The United Kingdom is. next to the
United States. the worlds largest ex-
porter of domestic products, and until
within recent years surpassed the Unit
ed States in its total. During recent
years however, the United States has
rapidly gained upon and finally over
taken the United Kingdom In the race
for supremacy as an exporter of do
nestle products.
The first year in which the exports
of domestic products from the United
States exceeded those from the United
Kingdom was 1898, the excess in our
favor in that year being about ninety
dulum swung the other way, the ex-
ports from the United Kingdom eX-
ceeding those from the United States
by about thirty-five million dollars.
In 1900 those from the United States
exceeded those from the United King
dom by about thirty-five million dol
lars. In the year ending June 30, 1902,
those of the United States exceeded
those of the United Kingdom by about
eight million dollars. In the fiscal year
1903 the United Kingdom was again at
the front, her total of domestic ex-
ports exceeding that of the United
States by twenty-five million dollars
In the fiscal year 1904 the United States
Will apparently be again in the lead
since figures of eleven months already
in hand show for that period an ex-
cess of thirty-eight million dollars in
favor of the United States