New-York tribune., 1905-12-18
TRADE WITH PHILIPPINES.
Exports Nay Reach st, 100000. and
Imports $4,000, 900 for Year.
rFro-n The Tribune Bureau J


yz-ssbfnrton Dec I7-Commerce between the
1-,,.ed States and the Philippine Islands seems
likely to aggregate about S2o.Oo0,o00 in the year
which ends with the present month While only
ten months figures of the present calendar year
are available they much exceed those of any
earlier year as to Justify the belief that the total
Will reach about s2oOoo0o0, against 600 in
1904 100000 in 1900 100000 in 1ssS and little
over 100000 in 1897. the year before American
occupation. Thus 1t seems likely that trade with
the islands in the year about to end will be nearly
four times great as IN the last year of Spanish
control, and approximately four times great as
the average during the several years prior 10
American occupa ton.
Before 1889 exports from the United States to the
Philippine Islands had never exceeded a quarter OF
million dollars. In the present year they will ag-
gregate nearly se.ooo0o0. certainly twenty times
much IN any year before American occupa-
ton. Imports from the islands which ranged be-
tween four and five million dollars year prior to
1899 in 1902 $lo0o1000: IN 1903 s25oo00e, and
in 1905 will be about s1400o0oo about three times
as much as the average prior to American occu-
patton.
This increase in trade with the islands is dis
tributed through large number Of articles. espe-
ciaIIy In the case OF exports. which have grown
from $50 45s in 1897 statement just issued by the
Bureau of Statistics shows the total trade with the
islands in each calendar from 1885 to 1904 ana
ten months Of the calendar year 1905 1t also
shows the principal articles exported to and I'M
ported from the islands in the ten months ending
with October 1905 and compares them with the
figures of the corresponding months OF 1904. This
statement Of exports to the islands includes hun
dreds OF articles, agricultural implements. books
maps and engravings, breadstuffs and car
riages, manufactures of cotton fruits and nuts
hay instruments and apparatus for scientific puf-
ures Of leather, mineral OIL meats, canned vege-
tables. canned milk wines and spirits, manufact-
ures Of wood, and many other articles
The imports from the Philippines. while they
have grown from 81 3521s1 in 1897 S2652 62 in the
ten months of the present year and seem likely TO
approximate 100000 in the full year. three
times as much as in 1897 confined to compare
lively few articles and up to this time are chiefly
hemp and sugar. The value of hemp imported from
the islands in the ten months ended with October
S10376,52S, average of more than S1,0Ooo00
g month, and that of sugar $2,A6,24s The other
articles imported from the Philippines are up to
this time extremely few and Of little value, the
next largest after sugar being straw hats and
bonnets, S14, ze6; vegetable oils. S6.A7 fruits and
features Of silk. SASS: while unnanufactured to-
bacco imported during the ten months was but SS
in value. and cigars. cigarettes and cheroots but
porta tions of hemp from the Philippine Islands.
the growth in the other important article thus far
imported from the Philippines sugar, has not been
strongly marked. The inlportations of manila
S100OO00 for the ten months of 1905 and will prob
ably reach fully s12000O00 in the full year. Sugar
importations from the Philippines have seldom
reached s1O0o.oo0 in any earlier year. and in the
less than per cent of the sugar brought into the
country in the year. Present indications seem to
Justify the prediction that the value of the
brought into the country in the year ended md ite
that total the Philippines supply little more than
100000 worth