The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-29
FALLING OFF IN
RUSSIAN TRADE
War Caused Distinct Loss to This
Country the Matter of
Goods Exported.
AMOUNT ONLY $17,00O,OOO
IMPORTS ARE CONSIDERABLY
LESS.

Washington, Jan. 2S-Trdde of the
United States with Russia, including
the Asiatic part, during the fiscal year
of 1906 as shown by the records of the
bureau of statistics. department of
commerce and labor, amounted to $26,-
500, 900, of which 81. 100000 represented
imports into the United States and
81, 000, 900 the exports OF the United
States to Russia These figures are
somewhat lower than the figures for
the preceding year when the total
trade figures were in excess Of S31, 30O,-
coo (of which S11, 100000 were imports
and S19, 4OO, 900 were exports). The
shrinkage is due largely to the war
and the unsettled condition OF the
country These figures do not Include
the entire trade movement between
the countries Goods shipped from this
country and ultimately reaching Rus
STA and vice versa are often consigned
to various ports Of intermediate coun-
tries and trans-shipped, particularly
raw cotton. the largest item of Ameri-
can expectation to Russia.
Figures for Five Years.
As a matter of fact the officially re-
corded imports Of American cotton into
Russia during the five years period
ending Dec. 81, 1904, were 919,5S4, OO9
pounds, while our exports to that coun-
try during the five year period ending
June 30. 1904 are stated in official
reports Of the bureau of statistics to
have been 266, O06,000 pounds, or less
than 30 per cent of the direct imports
recorded by the Russian customs au-
thOrities.
Furthermore, beside $1s,5OO,OOO worth
of raw cotton credited to the United
States imports of cotton TO the amount
of $24, 300, 900 are credited to Great
Britain, Germany, Denmark, Belgium.
France, Sweden and Norway, all coun-
tries which do not produce cotton but
receive the greater part (abOut Is per
cent? of their supply from the United
States
Allowing for these additional figures
it is said that 2 conservative estimate
of the total value of the commerce.
both direct and indirect, would place
the value at not less than $4,000 600 to
so, 900, 600, Of which $45,0OOO 900 to $4,000
600 represents the value Of goods ship
ped to Russia from this country and
about $40, 900, 900 to the value Of goods
shipped from Russia to the United
States.
Mostly Raw Materials.
The principal imports from the
United States consist Of raw materials
such as not produced there. at all Quite,
manila, hemp, etc.. or produced in in
sufficient quantities
The princip imports into Russia
from the United States for the calendar
year 1908, the latest year for which
complete returns for the entire empire
are available, are raw cotton, valued
at S24 1888 900, which includes the value
Of direct imports only; machinery
chiefly agricultural machinery of the
more complex type which aggregated
s., 584 900 in value; iron and steel, cop
per. dyes, etc. The annual imports
from the United States for the year
1894-189S is $24, I'll 900, while the aver
age imports for the period 1S99-1903,
are S23, 276, 900, these being exclusive Of
the indirect imports which as in the
case Of cotton, reach considerable pro-
portions.
The principal imports in the United
States from Russia are raw materials
principally raw wool and hides and
skins-whose combined value consti-
tutes nearly so per cent of the total
imports credited to that country as a
whole.
The imports Of sugar. which in 1901
were valued at $718,51S, have since
ceased.
Of the total imports into Russia over
the European frontier in 1904, the share
credited to the United States consti-
tutes 1917 per cent, while of the total
imports into this country during the
fiscal year 1905, the share credited to
Russia is Is per cent.