New-York tribune., 1906-10-15
EXPORTING IMPORTS.
US. Clearing House for So, 100000
Worth of Foreign Merchandise.
IFrom The tribune Bureau.1


Washington Oct. 14-With the stupendous figures
which the foreign commerce of this country has
recently attained it IS not surprising TO find that
there is also steady growth in the value foreign
products imported and then exported. According to
the Bureau OF Statistics the value OF the foreign
merchandise which this country now exports
amounts TO upward of So. 900 900 annually. Nat
uray the greater part this foreign merchandise
imported and then exported goes to nearby coun-
tries, but 1t was by no means limited to these and
the record shows that some shipments go as far as
Corea and the Straits Settlements. Canada re-
eeived nearly half the exported foreign merchan-
disc and Great Britain 100000 Germany about half
that amount and France nearly S.5OOOO0. while
Cuba took much France. In all, sixty-fve
countries We're the recipients of foreign goods
ported from the United States
Various articles comprise the list of goods i'm
ported and subsequently sent out of this country.
For instance, the United States exported between
S.OOOOO and $OOOoOa worth OF India rubber. s. 500,
000 worth of lead $780, OOO worth Of coffee about
H5OoO00 worth of fruits and nuts. than 81 OOo.
600 worth of tobacco. more than 81 900 worth OF
hbres; hides and skins, little than 900;
wool, little less than so GOO; art works nearly
.0O0 foreign woods especially mahogany about
S,00000 automobiles, more than $500 600; manufact-
aces OF iron @ ana steel OF various grades and char
lumber, gum chicle. and slsai nearly $5G0G0O
,o me value OF = IIoGegn fruits and nuts exported in
to more than $1;0OO.ooO in value These bananas
and the West India Islands we're sent almost
exclusively TO Canada
OF the nearly a.000OOO worth of art works OF
forelsh production exported in 1896. nearly $1 600
worth went 70 canada and $24. 81 worth TO France
,,i oui.sI, OF which the imports are chiefly from
N5ldutt ana NeWIpundland, is another item of con-
sueIaple Importance in the expectation of foreign
pLoducts The total in 1906 being SlSl 537 worth of
WHIcIi nearly all went to the West India islands,
especially ftayu, Santo Domingo and Cuba. Lead
IN ore ana base bullion formed another item of
Whch nearly $l,000O00 went to the United Kingdom.
oNtI ,$VVVO TO Germany, and most OF the
HIdLhdef 10 other European countries. TOoaccO
amounted IN 1906 TO 81 80 900. of which more
,a utIail S'1Yoo vent to Canada and the remainder
nearly all to European countries. Sponges
aIths SIo2oib In 1896. and being distributed chiefly
10 10 european countries especially France, Germany
me nlted Kingdom and Netherlands,
VI lhe NIil55 worth Of foreign champagne
R9rtcd IN 1906. about $4,000 worth went 70 Canada
S-eUp worth TO Mexico, and S2l 900 worth TO Cuba.
S9 The %3300O worth OF foreign goatskins exported
e--"v worth went to Canada. OF the $l9l,OOO worth
oI HldeS or cattle. $l54000 worth went TO Canada,
ahd OF $4,000 worth OF other hides and skins. $S0O0
moIth went 70 Canada and the remainder 20 Euro
nitrate OF soda exported, coo worth went TO
Cahada and $sS00O worth to Japan. or the S4lS 900
worth OF gum chicle re-eXported. $4,000 worth went
70 canada. OF the A4lO O00 worth OF lumber re-ex-
ported, nearly all went to the West India islands
south America and Mexico.
or the $259l1. IFS worth foreign merchandise ex-
ported IN 1896. Sl3. .s36 SOC went to North America
chiefly Canada; NO9ll, ,l5l. TO Europe. $i6, ,737 to
ASA Ilt.l92 TO South America, SSi taS To Oceania
ana S2O,S29 To Africa To Canada alone the total
was more than AO,5MG00. To the United Kingdom
alone more than %.OD00lO. 20 Germany, =, ,2J0.GO
france NG0.000 to Cuba nearly Sl,a00OO 10 Bel
GUM nearly $1,000 coo. Mexico a little more than
S'oooOO. and 10 Japan more than So,O0O worth.