The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-11
MANUFACTURING EXPORTS.

Figures issued by the Department
Commerce and Labor through it
Bureau of Statistics covering the for
eign commerce for the nine months
ending with September show thai
37.S7 per cent of the exports during
Il that period were manufactures and
but 500 per cent agricultural prod
| nets. Comparing these figures with
those of earlier years it may De salo
| that on only two occasions-in the
! fiscal years 1900 and 1ao4-have the ex-
ports of manufactures formed as much
as 80 per cent of the total exports.
In 1900 they formed 31.65 per cent
and in the fiscal year 1904, S1.52 per
cent, but in no other fiscal year have
thew formed as much as 80 per cent
of the total, and at no time have they
for a period of any considerable length
formed as large a proportion OF the
exports as has been the case in the
nine months ending with September
1904. The total value Of manufactures
exported during the nine months END
ing with September, 1904, is 365 million
dollars. against 81 millions in the cor
responding months of 1908. 33S millions
in the same months of 1900, 145 millions
in the corresponding months of 1895,
and 11S millions in the corresponding
months of 1890 For the single month
of September the exports of manufac-
lures were $40. 6sO,5O1, against $SS,244,-
S4S in September of last year.
Agricultural products exported in the |
nine months of 1904 amounted to $780, |
47s7S. against $3.50, 2S2,37S in the cor |
responding period of 1903, though in the
single month of September the value |
of agricultural products exported |
slightly exceeded that of the cor
responding month of the preceding |
year being in September. 1904, $751;
1874, 4S6, against s64,1S5,433 in Septem-
Der, 1909 This increase in the value
of agricultural products exported in /
1904, as compared with
1903, Is principally due to
the exceptionally large exports of cot
ton in September, which were much
above the average of September ex-
portations in earlier years.
The share which manufactures form
of the exports seems likely in the
year 1904 to be greater, and
the share which agricultural products
form of the total exports seems likely
to be smaller, than that OF any pre-
ceding year. In the nine months end
ing with September. 1904, manufac-
lures formed S7.s7 per cent of the total
exports; in 1903 they formed 1872 per
cent; in 1900, 33.44 per cent; in 1895,
20.6S per cent. and in 1890, 20.21 per
cent of the total exports. The above
figures relate in all cases to the nine
months periods ending with Septem-
Der. On the other hand, products of
agriculture form a much less percent
age of the total export in 1904 than in
any earlier year, being in the nine
months but 52.04 per cent, while in the
nine months ending with September,
1890, they formed 71.S4 per cent of the
total exports of domestic products.
Turning to the import side, materials |
in a crude condition which enter into /
the various processes of domestic in
dustry amounted in the nine months |
ending with September to 24S million |
dollars and formed 1903 per cent of the
total imports, as against total of 245 |
millions. forming 49, 81 per cent of the |
last year. The steady growth which
manufacturers raw materials are /
making in the imports of the country |
is shown by a comparison of the i'm |
ports OF materials of this CLASH in the |
nine months ending with September,
1904, with those Of the nine months
ending with September, 1885, In the
nine months period ending with Sep
TENDER, 1895, articles in a crude con-
dition for use in the domestic indus
tries showed importations amounting
to O,5s1, $40 and formed 2e,72 per cent
of the total imports, while in the nine |
months ending with September, 1894,
the importations of this class of arti- |
cles amounted to s24s,155, 2s7 and form
ed 1903 per cent of the total imports. |
-%
The widow of Lafcadio Hearn is |
coming to this country in connection