The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-02-22
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.


of the United States from 1893 10 1870
presents some interesting facts The
Department of Commerce and Labor
through it's Bureau of Statistics, pre-
sents a table showing the imports and
exports by grand divisions in each
calendar year from 1893 to 1903, thus
bringing the figures down to the very
latest date possible. This table shows
that the exports from the United States
to Europe have grown during the period
named from $3.50, 900. speaking in
round terms, to S1.087, 100000 or sixty
per cent; those to North America, from
s125, 600, 900 to 1921, 600, 900, or eighty-one
per cent; to South America, from $34,-
600, 900 to SAG, 600, 600, or thirty-fve per
cent; to Asia and Oceanic, from $751;
100000 to s92, OOO, 600 or 1877 per cent; and
to Africa from practically s5,000,00o to
s31, 600, 900, or 4S9 per cent; while the
growth in total exports has been from
ss7e. 900 in 1893 to s., 484, 100000 in 1903,
or sixty-nine per cent.
1t is proper to add that the figures of
exports to Asia and Oceania are slight
ly misleading, in view of the fact that
shipments from the United States to
Hawaii, which in 1893 were classed as
exports, are not so included at the pres
ent time, because of the fact that Ha-
wafi is now a customs district of the
United States ard the shipments to Ha-
wall are no longer included in the table |
of exports to foreign countries. If the |
shipments to Hawaii in 1903 were in
cluded, the total exports from the
United States to Asia and Oceania
would be $1O4, O00, 900 in 1903, instead of
1872. 000,0 600, thus making the real per-
centage of increase to Asia and Oceania
235 per cent.
On the import side, imports into the
United States from Europe show a
growth from $780,, 100000 in 1898 to $685..
000. 600 in 1903, or thirty-five per cent?
from North America, from $171 900, 600
to $1s2, 00O, 600, or seven per cent; fron +
South America, from s1O3, 100000 to $113,-
100000, or nine per cent; from Asia and
Oceanic, from $1O2, 900 to s161 200, 900, 6
ca, from 100000 to 11,OOO, 900, or 1.5 :
per cent; while the total imports show :.
growth from SIG, 900, 600 in 1893 to +
1896. 100000 in 1903, or twenty-eight per h
cent of increase. r
In word, it may be said that our ex- n
ports to Europe have increased about h
sixty per cent from 1893 to 1903; those
to North America, eighty-one per cent;
to South America, thirty-three ger f
cent; to Asia and Oceania, 1877 per cent t
of gain in total exports is G.
sfxty-nine per cent. In imports the per- e
centage of growth has been. from Eu- fl
rope, thirty-five per cent; from North
America, seven per cent; from South
nine per cent; from Asia and y
0ceania, ffty-eight per cent, and from
Africa. It's per cent; while in the total
the percentage of increase is
per cent.
The actual increase in the exporta- w
ions of the United States during the w
period was, to Europe, $407, 433, 400; to ID
North America, s1o2,OSS. $50; to South in
America, S12, $40; to Asia and Ocea- pa
ia, $61 ,S24, and to Africa, $25, 1868, 49, tn
md to all countries, $60S, 573.214. In SO
the increase from 1898 to II
90S was, from Europe, $135, III ,OOS; from ",
North America, 81, 14O,179; from South ar
america, $9,720,272; from Asia and pl
lceania, sos, 1885, 1868. and from Africa,
!, 1872, 419; while the total increase in i'm 30
orts during the period was s219 1913, PSI.
Among the most strongly marked in pa
tances of growth in our commerce, and tn
specially in the exports, is that of Can =.
da. In 1898 the total exports to the M
dominion of Canada amounted to $751; OF
2I1TS; in 1898. at the middle of the tie
eriod, they were s90,3SS. 065; in 1903 they ma
'ere were $191, 452, $50. This makes the
of increase since 1898 in our tn
xports to Canada 131 per cent. In i'm to
orts from Canada the growth was Gu
rom $S4, 492, S32 in 1898 to So, 291 $3.50 in ~
,0S, an increase of fifty-four per cent e6
o Mexico the growth in our exports sta
as from S16,5 ,255 in 1898 to S43, $40, all
/ 1908, an increase of 1853 per cent In po
nports the growth was from $32, 372, 99S ~, III.
l 1898 to 41.291. 1872 in 1903. an increase We
twenty-seven per cent. ]
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Prof. Henshaw of Hi1o has been given tn,
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