The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-23
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.

The growth of the foreign commerce
OF the United States from 1893 to 1858
presents some interesting facts. The
Department OF Commerce and Labor,
through its Bureau of Statistics, pre-
sents table showing the imports and
exports by grand divisions In each
calendar year from 1898 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 s6S0,000,000, speaking in
round terms, to s1,OS7, 100000, or sixty
per cent; those to North America, from
SIPS, 100000 to 1921, 100000, or eighty-one
per cent; to South America, from S34,-
600, COO to s4C,00O,000, or thirty-five per
cent; to Asia and Oceania, from $751;
O00, 600 to $4,000, 000 or 1877 per cent; and
to Africa from practically S5,0OO,000 TO
S31, 900, 900, or 4S9 per cent; while the
growth in total exports has been from
SST6, 100000 in 1898 to 81, 4S4 100000 in 1903,
or sixty-nine per cent.
1t Is proper TO add that the figures of
exports to Asia and Oceania are slight
~ 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-
waii is now a customs district of the
United States and 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
init nI
would be slO4 100000 in 1903, instead of
$92, 900, 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
growth from 1892, OO0, 900 in 1893 to $685.
100000 in 1903 or thirtyfive per cent;
from North America, from Sill ZOO, 900
to siS2, 100000, or seven per cent; from
South America, from slO3, 0,Q0O to S1l3,
100000, or nine per cent; from Asia and
Oceania, from $lO2,OOO,0O0 to s1Gi, 100000,
or fifty-eight per cent, and from Afri-
ca, from 100000 to $ll,000,000, or 1.5
per cent; while the total imports show
growth from S716,00C, eco in 1898 to
99j,CO0,O 600 in 1903 or twenty-eight per
cent of increase.
In q word, it may be said that our eN-
ports to Europe have increased about
sixty per cent from 1898 to 1903; those
to North America, eighty-one per cent;
to South America, thirty-three >er
cent; to Asia and Oceania, 1877 per cent,
and to Africa, 43i per cent; While the
percentage of gain in total exports is
sixty-nine per cent. In imports the per-
centage of growth has been, from Nu-
rope, thirty-five per cent; from North
America, seven per cent; from South
America, nine per cent; from Asia and
Oceanic, fifty-eight per cent, and from
Africa, 115 per cent; while in the total
imports the percentage of increase is
twenty-eight per cent.
The actual increase in the exporta-
tons of the United States during the
period was, to Europe, $4O7, 4SS, 400; to
North America, $102 ,0SS, $3.50; to South
America, $i2,034, $40; to Asia and Ocea-
mia, SCI, 69I SPA and to Africa, $25,36S,I3l,
and to all countries, $60S, 5IS,214. IN
the increase from 1898 to
1903 was, from Europe, $135,717, 0OS; from
North America, 11,140,179 from South
America, s9,720272; from Asia and
Oceania, s5S, 72S, 1858, and from Africa,
Sc, S92, 419: while the total increase in i'm
ports during the period was $2l9, 1881.
Among the most strongly marked in
stances of growth in our commerce, and !
in the exports, is that of Can
ada. In 1898 the total exports to The
Dominion of Canada amounted to $51, ,
l21,11S in 1898, at the middle of the |
period, they Were $90,3SS, 06j; in 1903 they |
were We're $lS1, 452, 562. This makes the |
of increase since 1898 in our ,
exports TO Canada 131 per cent. In i'm
ports from Canada the growth was |
from $34, i92.S32 in 1898 to S53, 29l, $50 in |
1903, an increase of fifty-four per cent.
10 Mexico the growth in our exports
was from $l6,55l, 255 in 1893 to $43, $40, S3l
n 1903, an increase of 1913 per cent. In
IMPORTS the growth was from S32,372,99S |
II 1898 to SAL ,29l, 1862 in 1903, an increase |
If twenty-seven per cent.
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