The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-12
TRADE WITH CHINESE
UNITED STATES BUstNEss IS ON
 INCREASE.
October Report of Department of Com merce and Labor Gives Total @s Imports from China for
 Ten Months.

OcavOer heROrt or Department or tom. merce and Labor Gives Total ls Imports from China for Ten Months.
 
 Commerce between the United States and China in the ten months ending with October. 1904, shows a larger to- tai. both in imports and exports, than in the corresponding months of any earlier year. The October reports is- . sued by the Department of Commerce | and Labor through its Bureau of Sta tistics show the total imports into the United States from China during the ten months ending with October. 1904, at $23,993,324, which exceeds by more than $3.000,000 the largest total in the corresponding period of any earlier year; and the exports from the United States to China in the ten months end ing October. 1904, $20,557,1S4. which ex- ceeds by about one-half million dollars | the largest total in the corresponding period of any earlier year. This is es pecially interesting in view of the fact that trade with China, particularly as relates to exports to that country, has ! been materially reduced during the past one or two years, due presumably to the hostilities in progress in that part of the world. ~
 
 to the Chinese Empire, which reached $24.722.906 in the fiscal year 1902, fell to SIS, S,898.163 in the fiscal year 1903 and to $12,S62,432 in the fiscal year 1904. The fact that the figures for the ten months ending with October. 1901. | show a larger total than those for the corresponding ten months of 1902, tho period at which the fiscal year figures | showed their largest total. suggests a very rapid increase in our exports to China in the few months subsequent to the termination of the last fiscal year. and this suggestion is sustained by the figures of our exports to China during recent months, as shown by the reports of the Bureau of Statistics.
 In the month of October 1904, for example, the total value of merchan- disc exported from the United States to China was $3,S46,8O3 against $l.324,- 535 in October of 1903. In September, 1904. our exports to China amounted to $2.962.S3S. against $639,o24 In Sep tember of 1903. In August, 1904. our exports to China were $4,o74.794, against $60S.744 in August of 1903. and in July, 1904. the value of merchandise exported from the United States to China was $1.942.6s0, against $915,010 in July of the preceding year. Thus in the months of July, August, September, and October, 1904, the value of mer- chandise exported from the United States to China was s12.s26,615. against $3.4S7 313 in the corresponding months of the preceding year.
 This rapid increase in our exporta tions to China in the last few months seems to strengthen the belief express ed during the last year that the fall in exports to that country was temporary aud due to the special conditions pre- vailing in that section of the world and especially in the northern part of China, which had been looked upon as the final destination of a large part of the merchandise from the United States. and especially cotton goods. The latest figures of the Bureau of Statistics show that the exports of cotton goods to China have greatly increased in re- cent months
 In the month of October. 1904. cotton cloth exported from the United States to China amounted to 43.343.533 yards. against 9.070,60 yards in October of the preceding year; in September, 1904. the number of yards of American cot ton colths exported to China was 20,- 395,200 against 3,377,050 in September of the preceding year, while for Au- gust, 1904. the figures were 44,247,094 yards, against 4,096,161 yards in Au gust of the preceding year. This brings the total value of cotton cloths ex- ported from the United States to China in the ten months ending with October, 1904. up to $9,657,707, against $S,502.36 in the corresponding months of the pre- cedng year.
 In mineral oil the increase Is still greater, the exports from the United States in the ten months ending with October, 1904. being $6.47S,66S. against $l.S34,05S in the corresponding months of 1903, and $2,435,472 in the corre- spending months of 1902. In quantity the exports of mineral oil to China in the ten months ending with October, 1904. were 61,496,234 gallons, against 16,963,664 gallons in the corresponding months of last year and 2S,503,2S2 gal Ions in the corresponding months of 1902.
 On the import side the figures for the ten months show an increase of about $3, ,000,0 900 as compared with the cor responding months of the preceding year. and stand about three millions above the highest figure of any ten months period of earlier years. This increase occurs chiefly in raw silk, of which the total value imported from China in the ten months ending with October. 1904. was $s,113,7oS. against $6,472.5S1 in the corresponding months of last year.
 The table which follows shows the total value of the imports into the United States from China and exports from the United States to China in the ten months ending with October in each year from 1894 to 1904