Arizona republican., 1904-12-05
TRADE WITH CANADA
Steady Increase of Exports
 to That Country
It Continues in Spite Of the Tariff Calculated to Encourage Trading With Great Britain.

Washington, Dec. 4.-EXports from the United States to Canada during the year about to terminate seem likely to exceed in total value those of any earlier year. The department of com m,.rce and labor, through it's bureau of statistics, hns just prepared a table showing the total commerce of the United States with Canada during the ten months ending October, also the to- tai imports into the United States from and exports from the United States to, Canada in each fiscal year from 1850 to and including 1904. The former statement shows that the total eypoIts from the Uniled States to Can ada in the ten months ending with October 1904, were $116, ,775,656, against $111,SS4,76S in the corresponding months of 1903, and $93.792, 394 in the corresponding months of 1902
 The hscal-year statement shows that our imports from Canada grew from $33. .264, ,4O3 in 1865 to 51,4O6, ,265 in 1904, and that our exports to Canada grew from $2S.S29,402 in 1865 to $13L274,346 H. 1904. The more rapid growth in our exports to Canada has occurred during recent years. This is ilIustrated by the fact that our total exports to aCn- | ada in 1890 were $40. .2S2, los. as against S28,S29,402 in 1865, the growth in tse twenty-five years from 1865 to 1890 1 having thus been less than r million l dollars; while the growth during the l fourteen years since 1890 has been 9i | billions. The most rapid growth. how : ever, has occurred during the period l from 1894 to 1904. our total exports to Canada ia 1894 having been s56,664,O94. ! as against $131,21434G in 1904, an in . crease of 7+ million dollars in the de cade. Thus during the last decade our total exports to Cnnada have increased 1Sj Der cent.
 This growth in our exports to Can aaA has been the more remarkable in View CT the fact that its natural pro duets are in most cases similar to those or t1es United States which suggests that the growth in exports occurs chief ly in manufactured articles. and thi.
 assumption is justified by an examina
 ton of the figures of the bureau o
 statistics relating to the exports O
 manufactures to the various countris. of the world. This statement showl th,l the exports of manufactures iron the United States to Canada in 1893 ver, $13,44u,029, and .n 1908 (the latest yea Tor which this insOrnatioR fs avail ahle) s61, 103,842, forming. in 1893. 32. per cent and in 1903. 53.4 per cent O
 the total exports of domestic product
 10 Canada.
 This growth in our exports of manu
 iactures to Canada and in the percent 2 age which they form of our total ex [ ports to that country is the more re f nlarkable in view of the fact that tn . canadian tariff gives to products iron !. the United Kingdom a reduction a = sj l-3 per cent in the rates of dut . charged upon similar products of tn D United States and other foreign coun
 tres. the reduced rates of duty aDpl,,
 ms ohly 10 the United Kingdom an certain British colonies The Cana
 d'an reduction of duty on imports fror
 the United Kingdom and certain of if
 colonies began in April. 1897 with a re
 ducDon of l212 per cent. In 1898 this re
 dUctlon was increased to 9 per cen
 and in 1900 to 8 1-3 per cent. and ba
 so continued up to the present tim
 ct -t has been during that very perio
 or the operation Of the preferenti,
 duty Tn favor of the United Kinpdo,
 that the exports from the United Statf
 to Canada have grown with the praa.
 est rapidity- IL is also especially ir
 teresting to note that the share vvbic
 Ine United States supplies of the tot