The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-17
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TRADE or Tf4E ORE
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TON GODS:
WASHINGTON July ~ he De
partmant Of Commerce and Labor
has issued, through the Burea'; II
Il stIstics err Int ssti1ss :'te,e 4
Graph on 'srhe Commercial criri.; in
1905. It discusses commeree aud
commercial conditions In all cctin.
tries occupied By Oriental people, he
value OF their imports aul exports
in the latest year for which intolma-
lstton is available and the snp.. lflrll
tile Gnfted states and the le:liIi'rss
commercial nations have IN the !:raLe:
The section Of the woT1'l os:s'i''e9dl
by the people OF oriental habits ia
cludes all OF Northern Africa. Turkey
in Europe, as well as in Asia, all Of
southern and Eastern Asia and the
East Indian islands. This territory,
stretching from North Africa to the
East Indies, and occupied By orlenS
tai people, Is but one-fifth of the land
surface OF the globe, but its popula.
ton is more than half the entire PEG.
pie of the world. Its annual interna:
tional commerce IS between $3,000,-
oOo, 1000 and $4,OOO,OO0,0oo about equal
" divided between exports and Inn
ports, and OF this commerce practI-
.cally two-thirds is with the occidental
sections of the world, the remainder
being exchanges among Oriental coun-
tries.
Small share Of orfent's Trade.
One Of the reasons for the compare
tive failure OF United States manufac-
turers to capture the trade Of the
Orient is that the Europeans manu-
facture goods to suit the habits and
wants OF this tropical Oriental mark
ct, while those of the United States
who offer goods in that market take
them from the general stock manu-
featured for Americans.
"The total Oriental market for mer-
chandise Of class which may be
readily produced in the United
States" says the report, "is more
than $1,000, 100000 annually, and of
this we now supply about $12S, 00o.-
600. OF this annual market of ST.
600 100000, about $250,000,0OO is cot
ton goods, for which the United States
supplies most Of the raw material:
another $1OO.00OOOO, iron and steel,
OF which the United States is the
worlds largest producer; $4,000
600 provisions in various forms, in
the production of which the United
States also exceeds any other coun-
try; about $4O.OOO,OOO mineral oil;
$25, 200, 900 medicines, drugs and dyes;
$50 100000 -four and $20,000.000 coal.
in addition to a large number of other
articles OF miscellaneous character,
almost Exclusively however, manu-
features.
while the United States supplies
about per cent. of the imports of
China, Japan and the Philippines,
and is steadily increasing its coal, it
supplies practically but per cent. of
the imports of the tropical and sub
tropical Orient, and is making little, II
any, increase. Europe supplies 81
per cent. of the importations into the
tropical Orient and maintains her al
most exclusive control of that mark
ct by manufacturing goods to suit the
local markets, sending statesmen and
merchants to every part of them,
packing goods in such manner as to
insure safe and proper delivery and
selling them upon such terms of long
credit as are required terms which
the Europeans are able to give
through the presence Of their repre-.
sentattVes and of banking institutions
established by their own people.
'The following table shows the per,
centage of imports and exports of the
United States in its trading with the
leading Oriental peoples:
Per cent. Of
Exports. Imports.
China .............. 17.3 11.3
Japan .............. 21.S 29.2
Korea 1890. ....... 6.S 49,.
Egypt ..... ........ 90 81
Turkey 1000. ...... IL 12.S
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