Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-03-02
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Eore;on Trade for the Year Likely to
Exceed $3,000,0o0,0oo.


average of S250, ,00O, 900 month III that
neriod. Should it continue at TINS
rate in the remainder OF the year, the
total foreign co nmerce for the fiscal
wear 1906 would exceed $3,00O,OOO, 900,
. ,jg,re which has not been reached IN
any previous year in the history Of our
f,reign trade. This increase, which
;s shown by figures just issued by the
Dan,rtment of Commerce and Labor
through it's bueau Of statistics, occurs
i'm both imports ana exports, put more
especially in exports.
In the seven months ending with
January, imports have increased S1O,-
600 600 over the corresponding months
of the preceding fiscal year, and ex-
ports have increased 100000. I'm
ports in the seven months ending with
January, 1906, were $6sJ, ga, j66, against
s625. 5.914.513 III the corresponding months
of last year, and exports were valued
at 81 O5G, ,656, 764, against 1901, 190026 in
the same months Of last year. This
gives a larger total of imports and
much larger total Of exports than in
the same months Of any preceding
years. Imports, which had never
touched 10000, 900 in a single month
prior to 1865, except on one or two Oc-
casions as a result of prospective tariff
changes, exceeded that sum in six of
the twelve months ending with Janu-
ary; while experts exceeded 500, 900, 900
in each of the twelve months, and in
December lacked but a few thousand
dollars Of touching the s20O,000,0 900 line.
The increase i'm impOrtatiOnS occurs
chiefly in manufacturers materials and
finished manufactures, while the in
crease in expectations occurs chiefly in
agricultural products and manufac-
lures.
A feature Of especial interest in the
expert record is the marked increase
which has developed in the last few
months in the expectation of bread
stulfs and provisions. The value OF
breadstuffs exported in January
amounted to over $2G,0000 900, and in De-
cenber to q like sum, which is larg-
cr value of breadstuffs exported than
| in any month since August. 1901. This
marked increase in the expectation OF
breadstuffs occurs in corn, wheat and
wheat flour, wheat exports in the
month of January being over 100000
bushels, against 100000 bushels in
January OF the preceding year; flour
go GOO barrels, against 100000 in Janu-
ary, 1905. while ccrn exports Increased
from 5000, ,0O0 bushels in January, 1905,
to -, ,OOO, 900 in January of the present
year.
January also shows marked in
crease in the expectation of provisions,
under which term are included meats
and dairy products. the total for that
month being $24,000,000. against $11,-
600, 900 in January of last year. For
the seven months ending with January
provisions showed a total expectation
| of $134.00 10000. against s10S,000,000 for
the corresponding period of the pre-
ceding year.
Cotton for January shows a marked
decline as compared with January.
1905, the quantity being 335. 100000
pounds, against 419,0OO.00O in January
Of last year, though the value for jan
uary, 1906, is practically $4,000, 900,
against $30.500,000 in January. 1905,
the export price of cotton in January
| of the present year having been 11.6
cents. as compared with 1.3 cents in
January of the preceding year.
The total exports of breadStuffs in
December. 1905. ana January. 1906.
times as great as in the corresponding
months of the preceding fiscal year.
Provisions also show Il marked in
crease in exports in December, 1905,
and January, 1906. the total for those
two months being more than 100000
900. against $27.000.000 in the CORE
spending months of the preceding fis-
cal year.
The increase in exports of bread
stuffS and provisions is widely distrib-
uted. but seems to be especially mark
| ed i'll the exports TO the United King
dom. Details of the January exports
| by articles have not yet been an
nounced by the bureau of statistics.
but for the month of December there
was an increase Of Il little more than
$2,OO0.O00 in the exports of corn to the
United Kingdom. of Il little more than
Sl.5O0,0OO to Germany, about S500.OU0
to The Netherlands. and nearly $1,000
/ 900 to other countries Of Europe, as
compared with December of the pre-
cedins year. In wheat the increase to
the United Kingdom in December 1905,
ompared with December 1904. was more
than $2.OOO.O0O: to France. more than
$1,000 600: and TO Germany a little more
than $5OO,O00. In wheat flour the in
crease to the United Kingdom was So
100000 TO Germany about 100000. and
to other European countries less than
s5OO0OO In meats the increase was
also more strongly marked in the case
of the United Kingdom than in that of
any other country. Canned beef shows
an increase to the United Kingdom Of
about $225.0O0, and to Germany about
$1,000; salted or picked beef to the
United Kingdom an increase of about
$4,000. and to Germany about s22S.-
600; bacon to the United Kingdom an
Increase of about $62S. 900, and 10 Ger
many $4,000; pork to the United
Kingdom. an increase of about s325.
600. and 10 Germany. $4,000. In lard
the increase to Germany is larger than
TO any other country, being, in Decem-
Der, 1905, $1,O0O,OOO in excess of De-
cember, 1904. while the increase TO all
other parts Of the world combined in
that period was Il little more than 81
900, 900. -
Ihe Increase in eynOrfc to tbo I,,;to,