The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-04
TRADE IS BEST
YET RECORDED
COMMERCE. WITH ALASKA, PORTO
RICO, THE PHILIPPINES AND
HAWAII IS VERY FLOURISHING.

WASHINGTON, November 24.-The
commerce Of the United States with its
non-contiguous territory in 1905
seems likely to exceed by many mil
lion dollars that of any preceding
year, according to a statement issued
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor, through its bureau of statistics
The bureaus nine months statement
ending with September shows that the
shipments from the United States to
its non-contiguous territory amount
ed to $36552,174 against 1923, 929O79 in
the corresponding months of the pre-
ceding year, and that the shipments
of merchandise to the United States
from it's non-contiguous territory in
the same period amounted to $66,55O,-
$50, against $47,141,63S in the CORE
spending months of the preceding year.
The figures given relate 70 merchan~
! disc only, and do not include the gold
and silver shipments from Alaska to
the United States.
In merchandise shipped from Alaska
/ to the United States there is a falling
off of a little less than $2.0OO,OOO COM
pared with the previous year In
shipments from the United States there
was an increase of nearly s2,OOO,OOO to
Alaska, of over 81, 900 900 to Porto Rico,
about $1,OOOOOO to the Philippines, and
nearly S1,0OO,OOO to the Hawaiian ISL
| ands.
In shipments from the non-contigu-
Gus territory to the United States there
was an increase of about s. O00,OOO from
the Philippines, and of about $12, 900, 900
from the Hawaiian islands.
The statement makes comparisons
of the contrast in the trade of the
| United States with the above-mention-
ed places with the same period prior to
annexation. In the nine months ended
September, 1897, the year prior to the
annexation. In the nine months ended
ments of merchandise from that island
to the United States amounted to ST.
767, OPS as against $16, 176,676 in the nine
months just ended. In the nine months
of 1897 the shipments from the Ha-
waiian Islands to the United States
amounted to $13,O44, 231, as against $685.
| 6S9791 in 1905. The shipments from
the Philippines for the nine months of
1897 amounted to $3,362 ,O6O, as against
| $11 1872, 724 in 1905. Shipments to Porto
Rico from the United States ports for
the nine months of 1897 were 81 ,5O4 974,
against no shipments during the cores
| the Hawaiian islands i'm 1897 were So
! 76626S, as against $S,96S, O49 in 1905, and
| those to the Philippines in 1897 $54, $50
against $4,4S2, 537 for 1905
The estimate is made that the total
ritory for the entire year of 1905 will
approximate $125,OO0,OOO. The ship
ments of sugar from the Hawaiian ISL
ands for the nine months ended with
September amounted to 1913, 113471 of
raw sugar and $1,752, 791 of refined su-
| gar. The shipments of refined sugar
from Hawaii were 80 ,136,S5S pounds, as
against no shipments during the cores
ponding period of the preceding year.
Porto Rico shipments of sugar amount
ed to $13,040S02, of cigars 81 $50, S55, and
of leaf tobacco $392,651. From the
| Philippines the most important ship
ments were Manila hemp $9,522, S57, and
| sugar $2,216,249. The shipments to the
Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
Alaska include practically all the ar
ticles of general character which the
United States exports to other coun-
tries