New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-05
TRADE WITH ITALY.
Exceeds by 100 Per Cent the Trade
1cith Entire Continent of africa.


Washington. Feb. As market for American
products Italy outranks Belgium Cuba. Australasia
Argentina. and exceeds ny than 100 per
cent the market offered by the entire continent OF
Africa. For the fiscal year 1890 the commerce be-
tween the United States and italy aggregated 81.
5E9sgl imports and exports being almost equal
TIE figures the latest compilation OF the Bureau
OF Statistics.
In tlc matter Of imports Italy ranks ahead Of
Belgium. the Netherlands Switzerland. in Eu-
rope. China India in Asia; the combined i'm
ports from Australasia and the Philippine Islands
and supplies more Than three times as much as the
entire continent of Africa. Exports from the
United States 10 Italy in the last fiscal year
valued SS.74o'-57. compared with SIS. 49, IA
Belgium. s3S 3so6g Cuba SO 2533l to Australasia
and Sls.5N6J3 Africa. our imports from Italy
In the same year we're valued AT Ss62S57s against
50 2 IN from India 81 81 DIS from China SO
from Belgium So ISIS from the Netherlands and
81 So from Africa.
In our trade with Italy exports exceeded imports
during the year by about $1,000 our total ex-
portstion 10 that country being SS.740cs7 and our
imports therefrom S3S.62s so. L is only within the
last decade that exports 70 italy have aver
aged more than imports therefrom. In the
decade ended with 1879 imports from Italy aggre-
gated S75oooa9 in value while exports thereto were
hut 81 esIos' in the next decade ended with 1855
imports from Italy were valued AT sl6s JTGH and
exports thereto 80 5Jssa the decade ended with
1870 imports from Italy exceeded by So 6poo00 the
value Of exports TO that country The former being
s2c@0oH and The latter N87 90. while in the
decade Just ended exports 10 Italy exceeded by
moic than 100000 the value of imports from
that country. the aggregate value OF the exports
lcm- for the ten years ended with June. 1915.
S2s75""@ and that OF the imports s277.5ra6,o Thus
ln thirty years Cur trade with Italy has aRGre-
stated considerably more than N.c"0aooo OF which
s5sot. go represented imports and S530vpt9sj ex-
PORTS
Raw silk supplies practically half the value OF
"ur entire lmu0~lat 9ns from ITALY. the remainder
a. The S2s 665.rU value being chiefly supplied by
fruits and nuts olive oil, uacar0ll. cheese wines,
sulphur co. crude birthstone argo-- win. Ices.
bets. marble and stone manufactures. silk manu-
ia0tgr-s. avn works. fax and hemp wood and man
a'aefl"eS thereof and hair and manufactures OF
hair d.. raw SILK tie ua ~ Imports from Italy
was N'''f't compared vt-h - g. 10 from Japan
''. ..- .'r --1 z1o-- 8 - 90 from all
'in'- ..----.e- Comparing rondtrione in 1895 with
i1o~' '. 1885, imports whole from Italy have
neatt doubled though tre growth has not been
u"ifo-mlF -.--ri --=r among III articles Raw silk
Co. example res ,sr QuaGrupled since 1885 hav-
rE been ra Eaa- s. 80 and in 1876 Sl6 $50 DIG
J .-g. Orange. from S+5s ~ in 1885 TO 81 &c. IN
-'", me ne.i@sN' 'H each case being Que 10 a
general decline r o-r .rnporIations Of fruits as
and lhe island erIto-ics now Under tbe Americs
Jas Imports ol macaIon Increased from less than
- -. ~ 1883 - Aslofl5 in 1875, cheese. from
=" M ess y SIPS f6l iu lsl5. stil wines from s266,54l
~ - 10 SsS1 in 1907; and vegetables from Sl47,l94
Dol 1875 Go SFotl@ .u 1886. Under the head Of chemi
r.ls. afgUS and crude birthstone are the chief
srTlcle> and both -loW slight Increases during the
decade Tho former from SsS9SG2 $40 i9S2 and the
latter from S-.2s69,9 Slala605. while other chem
Gals have than doubled. from S5l3 005 in 1895
10 S.0sf.21S 1873 Other items whci show in
Creased uEportatuns I'D me ten-yea- period ar"
marble and st0u, manufactures. from $621.514 to
Sl0".s>f hats and bonuets sf7l 10 81 f2G.-
100 silk manufactures from Si3 6s9 500 and
art works. from s2113s sas5334. the comparisons
D. each case being between 1875 aud 1893.
total value OF our exports 10 Italy while copper.
mineral oil. cOtt3usccd oil tobacco. wood and man
tfacrUre thereof fertilizers and paraftine contrib
ltea iu The aggregate about N..s9GrO during the
last fiscal year Comparing 1855 with 1903. eN-
lorts 10 italy have more than doubled Raw cot
ton increased from Bib SO 80 606. tobacco
from S22ss. 80 S25l365. copper from Sl- 232 10
&ZZslt- cottouSed OIL from Slsk rs TO g. esq S4-.
refined mineral oils from s. 365 $50 20 8 so $50 wood
and melufae Gf'S thereof n m 65lj 81 400 SIS.
iron auo steel mfnufactures from S253 70 g O63-
55- f~rtliZers. from Sle5sl5 s. 0l5 80. parafne
from 50 DO 500 Us. and copper suluhate F-o3
$40 6fs iu lSoS Sa5s1-s IN 1875