The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-04-15
CoAmeRCe AND WAX.

presented in the usual monthly state
ment issued by the Department of
Commerce and Labor through its
bureau of Statistics. The statement
covers the eight months ending with
February, 1904, and compares condi-
tons in those eight months with cor
The total exports from the United
States to all parts of the world during
the eight months ending with Febru-
airy, 1904, were valued at 1,O4s millions
against 9s2 millions in the correspond
ing months of last year, and the i'm
ports were 654 millions in value against
6s1 million dollars in the correspond
ing months Of last year.
To Europe the exports from the Unit
ed States We're 7s5 millions against 72S
million dollars in the corresponding
months of last year, and the imports
were 341 millions in value against 81
millions in the corresponding months
of last year. Thus the exports to
Europe show an increase of 81 million
dollars and the imports from Europe a
decrease of 40 million dollars in the
eight months period under considera-
ton. To North America, other than
the United States, our exports were
$50 millions against 1856 millions in the
corresponding months of last year. an
increase of 10 million dollars and from
North America, other than the United
States, our imports were 113 millions
millions. To South America our eX-
ports We're 80 millions against 81 mil
lions last year, and from South Amer
| lea our imports were SO millions
against 6S millions in the corresponding
months of last year. To Asia our ex-
ports We're 80 millions against Al mil
! lions in the eight months of last year,
and our imports from Asia We're 81
millions against 1O4 millions in the cor
responding months of last year To
Oceania our exports We're 90 millions
against 26 millions in the correspond
ing months of last year, and our i'm
ports from Oceanla We're IA millions
against IA millions in the same months
of the preceding year. To Africa our
exports We're Il millions against % mill
lions in the corresponding months of
last year, and from Africa our imports
We're millions against millions in
the same months of the preceding fiscal
year. Thus, the increase in exports is
exclusively to Europe, North and
South America, while Asia, Oceania,
and Africa show, in each case, a de-
crease.
To Asia the reduction is presumably
due in part to existing hostilities which
unsettled trade and in part to the very
the exports of cotton to Japan from
10 million pounds in the eight months
ending with February, 1908, to 20 mill
lion pounds in the eight months end
ing with February, 1904, making the
reduction in value of raw cotton eX-
ported to Japan alone about Az million
dollars.
To China exports from the United
States continue to show a marked re-
duction as compared with the preced-
n,,,, fol
the Chinese Empire for the eight
months ending with February, 1904,
We're SIS. ia, $50, against 12,440,SS1 in the
corresponding months of last year, and
$l5, 46S, 220 in the same months of the
fiscal year 1902. For the month of
February, 1904, our exports to China
We're $l,S94 i23, against $2O22,676 in
February, 1908. This reduction is ap-
parently due in part to the hostilities
in northern China, which have had
very general effect upon trade condi-
tons in that Empire, in part to the
invasion of the markets of China by
cotton cloths from Japan, and in part
to the growing manufacture of cotton
cloth produced largely from yarns i'm
ported from Japan and India, consum-
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Gently established in China and largely
distributed for use in household weav-
ing of cotton cloths for domestic re-
quirements. Still another important
cause Is, as already noted, the great
increase in prices of cotton cloths due
to the high price of cotton during the
last year. The reduction in eXporta-
tons of cotton cloths from the United
States to China was from slO,09iSS6 in
the eight months ending with Fehru-
airy, 1902, to S2,76207S in the eight
months ending with February of this
year.
To other sections OF the Orient our
Exports show an increase, the total to
Asia In the eight months ending with
February being S3S,9G67 IA against SAL
3lliS2 In the same months of last
year. reduction OF s2,Sil7il, while in
the exports TO China alone the reduce