New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-11
TRADE DISTRIBUTION.
United States Share IN Supplying
Demands of the World.
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yasbinsto, ApriI 1O-.sThe imports OF the grand
divisions ard principal countries OF the worio ana
the share thereof supplied by the United states
is the title of a table just presented by the De-
partnent Of Commerce through it's Bureau Of Sta
tistcs 1t shows as the title indicates. tie total
imports of each of the principal countries OF the
world. the amount of those imports drawn from
the United States and the percentage our products
form of the total imports According TO this state
ment. of the Ss14 054 900 worth Of merchandise i'm
ported by Europe in 1902 the United States supplied
81 21 ESQ 600. Ass per cent OF the total North
America. other than the United States. imported
merchandise 20 the value Of s1o.71SO0 OF which the
United States supplied s215 600 81 So per
South America imported $9ls s91 go. OF which $43
$1,000. 1855 per cent. from the United States
Asas imports $685. $4,000 OF which $50 700.
So per cent, from the United States.
AfrIcas imports were s436 256 OO0 Of which s24 333
900. .. IS per cent, from the United States.
The imports OF Oceania s2e2 1O7. COO OF which
sa4s55.Ooo or 1.93 per cent, drawn from the
United States. This figure for Ocesnia does not in
ciude the Hawaiian Islands. which considered
as part of the United States. the Dutch
French East Indies, which included with Asia
In word, Europe drew 1iS8 per cent Of her i'm
ports from the United States: North America
other than the United States 5255 per cent: South
America. II SO per cent; Asia SO per cent: Africa
SIS per cent and Oceania 193 per OF her total
imports from the United States
tries are taken from the official reports of those
ports from the United States and not from state
ment OF our exports to those countries.
Taking a few OF the more important countries II
may be said that the United Kingdom took 24C3 per
cent OF her imports from the United States: Ger
many loss per cent from the United States; France
g6l per cent Netherlands. 1913 per cent: Belgium
n59 per cent; Spain, 1852 per cent: China rs per
cent; Japan, 1Lg per cent; Commonwealth OF
Australia. 1.s2 per cent: New-Zeaand I165 per
cent; Philippine Islands. 1916 per cent; Cape O
Good Hope, 952 per cent: Argentina. I29i per cent:
Colombia. 1851 per cent; Venezuela 81 81 per cent
British Guiana, 31.35 per cent; Mexico 1881 per
British West Indies. 1897 per cent and the Central
American States. az whole. 1872 per cent
II Will be observed from the above figures that
the countries most nearly contiguous to the United
states are those which take the largest proportion
OF their imports from this country. Mexico takes
bS91 cent Of her imports from the United States
canada 0IZ9 per cent. Cuba 43.71 per cent Central
American States 1882 per cent and the British West
Indies 1897 per cent. while the South American
countries fronting upon tho Caribbean Sea took
about One-third OF their imports from the Unfted
States and those OF South America living further
ports from the United States In the trade with
European countries those with which We have the
most complete and frequent steamship connection
namely. the United Kingdom and Germany show a
higher percentage OF their imports from the United
States than do any others Of the Important Euro
dom H03 per cent and Germany 1886 per cent
while Europe, as a whole, takes but Ass per cent
OF her imports from the United States
The table which follows shows the total fmnorta
the imports from the United States and the per
cent OF imports from the United States OF the prfn
Cipal countries of the world the latest avsfiabs
year. in most 1902.
Total imports, and imports rom the United States
into the following countries for the year 1902 or
latest available year 1850 -