The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-25
TRADE IN ORIENT
 CROWS RAPIDLY Striking Figures on Exports to China and Japan S50,OOO,O0O IN 10 MONTHS In the Case of Japan the Exports of 1905 Are Double Those
 of the Year
 1905.
S5O,OOO,OOO IN 10 MONTHS


 No feature of the export trade of the United States in 1905 has shown a larger growth than that of the trade with China and Japan. In the ten months ending with October exports to China are more than 50 million dollars in value against 20 millions in the same months of 1904 and 13 millions in the corresponding months of 1903; and those to Japan are AZ millions. against little less than 22 millions for the same period in 1904 and 16 millions in the corresponding months of 1903. Thus. in the case of Japan exports have more than doubled as compared with 1904 and practically trebled as compared with 1903, while in the case of China exports are two and one-half times as much as in 1904 and have practically quadrupled since 1903. No other countries of the world to which our ex- ports are sent show gains approxmating those of China and Japan. To Cuba there is an increase of approximately 40 per cent and to Argentina about 33 per cent, but China and Japan are the only coun- tries in the long list of those to which our exports are sent which show a gain
 
 of growth continue until the close of the year. the total exports from the United States to Japan in the calendar year will be practically ten times much decade ago, in 1895, and those to China fourteen times as much as in 1S95 This upward movement in the figures of eX- ports to China and Japan began to be apparent in 1904, the exports to China ha fp1 n heinz practically 2S millions dollars, against 15 millions in the immediately preceding year. and those to Japan 31D2 millions, against a little less than 21 millions in the immediately preceding year, but the growth in each case in 1905 has been even more striking than that of 1904.
 China Is Good Market
 The increase in exports from the United States to each of these countries occurs in a large proportion of the articles of export to that part of the world. To China the growth Is especially marked in copper, cotton cloths, flour. sewing ma chimes, locomotives, paper, canned beef, manufactures of tobacco, and lumber, though cotton cloth and copper are by far the most important of these items. To Japan the growth occurs in flour, car riages and other vehicles, raw cotton, electrical machinery, sewing machines, locomotives. leather, paper. canned beef tobacco and lumber. In all exports to both China and Japan the value of min ! eral oil Is less than that of last year. though to China the quantity is greater than that of the preceding year.
 The most Important increase as al- ready indicated, in the exports to China is in cotton cloths and copper. The mum Der of yards of cloth in the ten months ending with October is 46l 501 ,29l against | Il T l6.49 a n gt and 11I037,419 in the corresponding months of 1903, the value in the ten months of 1 1905 being s27, ,405 475, against s9,657,707 in the same months of 1904 and s,502, ,363 in the same months of 1903 Copper exports to China are a comparatively new feat ure of our trade with that country, the amount in hte ten months ending with October, 1905, having been s11, 326, ,407, against $6l1 ST in the same months of last year. while for the corresponding period of 1903 no record was made, the quantity being so small as to require no detailed | statement in the export record by months. This copper is used in manufacturing the new copper coins, of which 1,693,000 GOO pieces of a nominal value of about one half cent each were coined in 1904.
 Flour sent to China in the ten months ending with October amounted to $333 O02, against sl70,6 GA in the same months of last year. This does not, however. show by any means the quantity of flour sent to China, as a large proportion of the Amer . ican flour consumed in China enters through Hongkong, and is therefore shown in the export statement from the United States to Hongkong. The value of flour exported to Hongkong in the ten months ending with October, 1905 was $2,O70, 726, against $4053,773 in the same months of last year. Flour Is about the only impor- tant article of our exports to China which shows any material reduction in the ten he iapr rurith
 pared with the same period of last year, and IS most of this is stated an export to Hongkong the falling off g. GOO GOO does not affect the official figures of trade with China. though 1t does doubtless indicate a reduction in the quantity of American flour reaching China in 1905.
 Locomotives Show Gain.
 Locomotive engines show a large percen- tage of gain in the shipments to China during the year, though the total value is not large, being, for the ten months ending with October, sl66,075 against $30,- 75O in the same months of last year. the number sent in the ten months of 1905 be- ing IS. against in the same months of last year. Mineral oil, already indi- cated, shows a slight reduction in the value of exports to China, the total for the ten months ending with October. 1905, being s5,5ss. 600, against s6,57s66S in the Sdllt ol ldSl Schi' " h'Nioo9c '' nearly one million dollars in value, while the quantity exportsed shows an increase of about four million gallons being, In the ten months ending with October 1905, o. 6S6 749 gallons, against 6f,A96,28 gallons in the same months of last year. Canned beef shows a material increase in the ex- ports to China. the total for the ten months of the present year being 1.2199s0 pounds. against 3s674 in the same.months of last year, and the value sl21 ,294 in 1905, against $5O,140 in the same months of 1901. Manufactures of tobacco also show a material increase, our exports to China