Arizona republican., 1906-03-10
THE COUNTRY'S TRADE
 WITH AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
An Extensive Growth Within the Last
 Ten Years.

Washington. March 9.-The trade Of the United States with Austria Hun gary during the fiscal year 1905, ac- Cording to records of the department of commerce and labor, published through its bureau of statistics. stood at 22.1 million dollars. of which over l0.5 millions are stated to have beer imports and 1l.6 exports. lnasmuch. however, as trade between the two countries is in many cases carried on indirectly, mainly by way of German and Italian ports, these figures can be regarded as complete only so far as they relate to our imports from that country Exports from this country which find their way ultimately to Austria are in many cases reported t2 the bureau of statistics as. exports to the country where the transshipmcnt takes place. For this reason the Aus fro Hungarian figures of imports from this country are used in this discus sion in preference to our own export figures.
 The growth of trade between the two countries during the last decade has been quite large, especially under the head Of imports into Austria Hungary from the United States. Thus imports into the United States from Austria Hungary increased ILOlI e llllAlAbLl tAO4- lars during the fiscal year 1896 to 10.6 millions during the fiscal year 1905. while imports into Austria Hungary from this country increased from 15 ? million dollars during the calendar year 1904.
 The principal articles imported into Austria Hungary from the United States, in the order of their magnitude, are raw cotton. the value of which for the calendar year 1904 was 23.4 million dollars. as against 9.3 in 1885 copper, Al million dollars, as against SIP, 900 in 1895: cotton seed oil. Is million dol lars. as against S563.0O0 in 1895; lard. 1.2 million dollars, as against $235, 5,00O in 1895. and tobacco. $931.000. as against 1.3 million dollars in 1885. With the exception of tobacco, the i'm ports of the articles named the com bined value of which constitutes over S4 per cent of the total imports from this country during the calendar year 1904 show considerable growth. Thus the imports of cotton increased over l50 per cent; those of copper, 4T5 per cent: those of cotton seed oil. -174 per cent and those of lard, All per cent. on the whole it may be said that the United States furnishes Austria-Hun- gary with the greater part of the raw materials for it's principal textile and it's electrical industry, supplementing also. though in a much lesser degree, part of the food products required for it's growing industrial pOpulation
 The list of principal imports into this country from Austria-Hungary during the fiscal year 1905 is a much more extended one, though in the case of no article does the value reach one million dollars Fibers, vegetable and manufactures of (chiefI- linen manu- factIres), valued al S99O,T40; hides and skins worth s95O. .934: glass and glass ware valued at S945, ,061;-- earthen. stone and china ware valued at $9O9,929; chemicals, unspecified, SSI7,7SS; jew eIry valued at s496,215; malt liquors, S4S9,162; manufactures of wood valued at S395.715, and manufactures of wool S259,197, are some of the leading ar ticIes imported into this country from Austria Hungary in the order of thelr magnitude The importation of sugar, which attained considerable propOr tions as late as 1901, has ceased all most entirely. being but $34,909 in val ue in 1905, as against 3.7 million dol lars in 1901 and 2.3 millions in 1902. The imports, consisting, as they do, principally of articles of luxury and voluntary consumption, while not showing any such extraordinary rate of increase as the staple imports into Austria Hungary from this country, in all cases show continuous growth dur ing the decade under consideration.