Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-02
Imports From Cuba During
1904 Increased 81 Per Cent
Over Previous Year
LARGE INCREASE IN EXPORTS
United States Shipped to Cuba During
the Year s32,e44,a45 in Products, an
Increase Of $50 Per Cent Over 1903
Export Trade to Cuba Largest in
History-other News.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Figures of the
trade of the United States with Cuba
under the reciprocity treaty are pub
lisned by the department of commerce
and labor thru it's bureau of statistics.
These statements include two sets of
figures: % the report of the United
States government showing the total
value of it's imports from and exports
, to each country of the world, including
Cuba, during the full calendar year
1904, and (2) the report of the Cuban
and exports to each country of the
world during the first half Of the call
endar year 1904. AS the reciprocity
treaty with Cuban began practically
with the beginning of the year 1904,
december 81, 1909, the figures Of the
year or half year 1904, compared with
those of the corresponding period of
the preceding year, give an opportunity
to compare the trade under the reci-
procity treaty with that OF correspond
ing periods of the year or years lm-
mediately preceding.
The figures of the United States gov
eminent showing it's total imports from
and exports to each country of the
world, show that the imports from Gu
ba in the calendar year 1904 under the
reciprocity treaty were $74,950,992 in
value, against s57,22s,291 in 1908. This
indicates an increase of practically Is
T0Y1rf inc
that same period our total imports
from the West Indies, including Cuba,
but excluding Porto Rico from consid-
GRAFTON, grew from STA, S90,69O in 1903,
to $S9,561,O26 in 1904, an increase \of
but 14k million dollars, or 20 per cent.
Thus the entire increase in our imports
from the West Indies occurred In the
trade with Cuba, the imports from the
other West India Islands showing In
practically every case a decrease as
compared with the preceding year. The
total imports into the United States
in 1904 were $1,035, 9O9,197, against
1895, 494,32 in 1903, an increase Of 40
million dollars, or but per cent. Thus
the imports from Cuba increased 81
per cent while the imports from other
sections of the West Indies were de-
creasing, and the total imports into the
United States from all countries were
increasing but per cent.
Turning to the export side the fg-
ures of the United States government
show total exports to Cuba in the call
endar year 1904 valued at $32,644,345.
against s23,5O4,417 in 1903, an increase
of $e,13992s, or 3s.9 per cent. The
total exports to all parts Of the world
in 1904 were $1,451, 355,645. against
1,484,75S,083, in 1903, decrease Of
1897, 43S, or 2.3 per cent in the grand
total exports, while to Cuba alone as
above indicated the increase is practi-
cally 40 per cent.
The exports from the United States
to Cuba in the calendar year 1904 ex-
ceeded those Of any earlier year in the
history of our trade with that island,
the highest total in any preceding year
having been that Of 1901, $27,007,02
aaginst $32,644,345 in 1904, an increase
in 1904 of 20.S per cent over the pre-
vious high record year, 1901. The i'm
ports from Cuba in 1904 were less in
value than those of the calendar years
1894 and 1892 and of the fiscal years
1874 and 1873. Summarizing in a single
sentence the figures Of our export trade
to Cuba in 1904, it may be said that it
is larger than in any preceding year,
and that the increase over 1903 was
$50 per cent, while the increase in i'm
ports from Cuba in the same year was
81 per cent