The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-02-16
OUR TRADE WITH RUSSIA.

gated practically twenty miifon dol
lars. This is more than double the
amount Of our exports to Russia in
1901. the year in which duties were ad-
vanced upon merchandise from the
United States entering Russia, and is
also double the average for many years
preceding that date. Imports from
Russia have also greatly increased
since that time. In 1903 they were
i0,9O7,3l5, against s7,263,s74 in 1901.
Thus the total commerce between the
United states and Russia i'm the CAL
endar year 1903 exceeds thirty million
dollars, and is double that of 1901, the
year in which such alarm was felt with
reference to our commerce with Rus
STA, and Is three times as great as in
1898.
This increase in the trade with Rus
STA Is especially marked when COM
pared with the growth in trade with
other European countries. Comparing
conditions in 1903 with those of 1901, it
may be said that exports to Europe as
a whole show slight decrease. while
those to Russia, as already indicated,
show an increase of more than 100 per
cent. To the United Kingdom our
exports in 1903 are So million dollars
below those of 1901; to Netherlands,
the reduction in exports, as compared
with 1901, is more than IL millions, and
to Belgium, more than millions. To
France our exports in 1903 show
slight increase, and to Germany an in
crease of nearly 40 million dollars; but
in each case the percentage of gain is
small. compared with that in our ex-
ports to Russia, which show a much
larger gain proportionately than those
of any other European country while
in our imports from Russia a material
increase is also shown.
The chief growth in our exports to
Russia, in the two years in question,
has been in cotton, agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS copper and It's manufactures,
and naval stores. In iron and steel
there has been a slight reduction, and
in flour a considerable reduction Raw
cotton, of which our expectations to
Russia in the fiscal year 1901 were less
than 2 1-2 million dollars, showed in
the fiscal year 1903 a total export to
that country of over millions. Agri-
cultural implements have grown from
1882, 597 to 1886, l45; copper and man
ufactures thereof, from s79O,72i to ST.
364272, and naval stores, from 1921, SIG
to s432,792. Iron and steel, which in
the fiscal year 1901 amounted to ST.
636S94, was in the fiscal year 1903 ST.
9S139; and -four, which in the fiscal
year 1901 was sl,261, 122, was in 1908,
s1,O2S,59
The table which follows shows the
principal exports from the United
States to all Russian territory in the
fiscal years 1901 and 1903.
Principal exports from the United
States to Russia in the fiscal years 1901
and 1903:
Articles. 1901. 1908.
Raw cotton so, 49S 1923 IS, JIG, O6O
Agricultural imple-
ments :. -. ....... 1,692,597 S,6S6145
Copper and manufac-
lures thereof ....... >790,724 1,364272
Iron and steel manu-
features -. ....... 1,636,S94 1,19S,139
Flour -. .......... 1851, 122 1,02S,59
Naval stores ......... 2S1,616 432,793
Provisions 49,. ....... 550,751 2O4, 4O5
In these detailed statements fiscal
year figures are shown, while in the
general statement of total exports and
total imports calendar year figures are
used as presenting the very latest
available record of our commerce with
Russia.
The table which follows shows our
total exports to and imports from Rus
STA in each calendar year from 1898 to
1903: