The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-09-19
SOME STAT|ST|CSOF
EXPORTS TO RUSSIA
IMPORTS FROM THAT COUNTRY
TO THE UNITED STATES.
Figures OF Interest in View Of the
Recent Removal OF Discrim-
mating Duties.

Oh discriminating import duties on a
number of articles, the products of the
United States, be discontinued, lends
some interest to the figures below, pre-
sented by the department of commerce
and labor through its bureau of statis-
tics, showing the total imports into
Russia from the United States during
the calendar years 1900 to 1904, inclu-
sive, as well as the imports during the
period from 1900 to 1903 into Russia
from the United States of the articles
affected by the adverse tariff legisla-
ton.
The application of the higher dis
eliminating rates dated back to the be-
ginning of the year 1901, when, in re-
taliation of the countervaiiing duty i'm
posed upon sugar of Russian origin, in
accordance with section 5 of the Ding
ley tariff, the Russian minister of f.
nance ordered the application OF the
penal tariff rates to imports of manu-
factureres of cast iron, of hand tools,
machinery and numerous other articles
classed under the general heading of
factures of cast iron, of hand tools,
articles, which were subject until then
to the same conventional rates as were
paid by like articles coming from Ger
many and other European countries,
became subject to rates from 30 to so
per cent higher.
In May of the same year an order OF
the Russian minister of finance raised
the rates on white rosin, pine pitch and
brewers pitch by 20 per cent and that
on velocipedes by 80 per cent, which
higher rates have prevailed since.
In order to be able to determine the
origin of the articles affected, the Rus
sian government also ordered the pres
entation of certificates of origin in case
the goods bore no trade marks or other
proofs of their real origin.
1t is interesting to note that the to-
tai imports into Russia from the
United States, as shown by the official
trade returns of the Russian govern
ment, show but little the effects of the
adverse tariff legislation. Thus the to-
tai imports from this country are stat
ed by the Russian returns as follows:
1900. 0.................... $22,74S,OOO
l9Ol. ........''...'.'... li'9o4,ooo
l9O2. .......,...,,.'.'' zo'ot4'ooo
1903. .................... 32,53l ,OOO
Preliminary figures for the year 1904,
showing the Imports from the United
States into Russia over the European
frontier only. are $32, 1851 900. The cor
responding figures of the bureau of sta
tistics, showing the total exports from
this country to Russia during the same
calendar years, are as follows:
lJUU. .......,.'..''s..s 9o,oofJ1'V
l9Ol. ..........'.''''''' ''zV',Sso
1902. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 13,S35,953
l9O3. ..........,.. lo'Ss4,ofo
1904 17,S23,S56
While the figures of the two govern
ments measuring the same trade move
ment for the same period show wide
discrepancies, neither of them dis
closes any serious effect Of the above
named determinations upon the growth
of the general trade movement. The
main reason for this phenomenon is
that the bulk of imports into Russia
from the United States is made up of
raw cotton, the imports of which from
this country for the years in question
appear to have been as follows:
1900. $18,417 900
1901. 12,467, 900
1902. 1855, 900
1903. 24,33S, 900
1904. 24,060, 900
BY comparing the values OF the cot
ton imports with those of the total i'm
ports into Russia from this country, 1t
is seen that the larger smaller size of
the total import figures for the respec-
tive years depends mainly upon the
.,aanitIlda of the foures showing the