The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-08

Aggregate for the Fiscal Year 1905,
Exports and Imports, Over
$20O,0OO,0OO.
SECOND BEST CUSTOMER
REPORT ISSUED BY BUREAU OF
STATISTICS.

Washington, Jan. 7.-Trade between
the United States and Germany, whose
commercial relations are now the sub
1eet of negotiations between the two
countries, aggregated in the fiscal year
1906 over S200. 900. 600.
A report issued today by the bureau
of statistics of the department Of COM
merce and labor says:
The imports from Germany were
$118,0OO,OO0 in value, and exceeded i'm
ports from that country in any earlier
year. The exports to Germany were
$194, 600, 900 in value, and exceeded our
exports to that country in any earlier
year except 1904 in which the total was
over S214, 900, 00O,- this decrease in 1905.
compared with 1904, having occurred in
raw cotton and being due altogether to
a fall in price, since the quantity I'm
1905 was greater than in 1904. Imports
from Germany increased $37, 600 900 in
the period from 1895 to 1905. and exports
to that country increased $102, 000, 900 in
the same time.
Second in Magnitude.
Germany stand second in the order
Of magnitude of our trade with foreign
countries, both as to imports and ex-
ports.
Manufactures are the bulk of the
$118,000,000 worth Of merchandise i'm
ported from Germany. These manu-
features include cotton goods, about
$14, 900, 600 in value; chemicals, drugs
and dyes, $4,000 600; iron and steel
manufactures, about 100000; leather
manufactures, So, 900, 900; silk manufac-
lures, about IS 600 900; manufactures of
fbres, about $1,000, 600; wooden goods,
100000; paper and manufactures
thereof, over $4,000 900, and toys, So
100000. Raw cotton is by far the larg-
est single item in our exports to Ger
many, amounting in 1905 to S87 900, 900
in value, as compared with exports of
$43, 600 in value in 1895.
Less Wheat Imported.
s'Breadstuffs form a less important
factor in our trade with Germany than
formerly, owing to the great falling off
in the quantity which the United
States States is now able to spare to
the outside world. OF wheat. for ex-
ample, our exports to Germany, which
amounted to more than 10000 900 bush
els In 1901, and practically 20 600 900
bushels in 1902, fell to 1850, 900 bushels
in 1903, 1900, 900 in 1904 and 100 040 bush
els in 1905, the value in 1905 being but.
S84,7O0. Flour shows also a considerable,
decline, but corn showed a marked in
crease, its total export to Germany be-
ing over 100000 in value
In manufactures, especially copper,
mineral oil, leather, scientific instru-
ments and certain manufactures of iron
and steel, our exports to Germany
show steady growth. The value of
copper in bars and plates exported
from the United States to Germany
amounted to over $4,000. 900. against a
little more than 81, SOC, 900 in 1906, the
record year.
Imports from Germany formed In
1905 1O.7 per cent of the total importa-
tons into the United States, and ex-
ports to that country in the same year
12.7 per cent Of the total exports to that
country Germany's figures show that
imports from the United States in 1904
formed 14.S per cent of her total i'm
ports and the exports to the United
States formed SO per cent of her total
exports