The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-11
TRADE EXPANSION
WITH THE LITTLE
BROWN men
Our Dealings With "The Yam
KEGS of the Orient" Aggre-
gate Many Millions.

Trade of the United States with
Japan is larger than with any other
oriental country, and aggregated In
1905 LOG million dollars. The exports
to Japan have grown from little
more than million dollars in the
calendar year 1895 to over IS millions
in 1905, being more than ten times as
great in 1905 as in 1895. The imports
from Japan also show material in
crease, having been 27h million dol
lars in 1895 and nearly 81 millions in
1905. The gain in exports to Japan,
comparing 1905 with 1895 is not quite
SO rapid as in those to China, but the
growth in imports from Japan is much
more rapid than in those from China.
In the period from 1895 to 1905 the
exports to Japan increased As million
dollars, and those to China increased
practically IS millions. During the
same period imports from Japan in
creased % million dolalrs, while those
from China increased but about 6 mil
lions.
The growth in exports from the
United States to Japan and China has
been a remarkable feature In our ex-
port trade in the last decade. The
increase in exports to Japan was in
round terms so million dollars, while
during the same period the growth in
EXPORTS to all South America was but
80 million dollars. to al Africa but
10 millions, to Oceania, including
Hawaii, 30 millions and to all Asia
except Japan and China 10 millions.
Thus the growth in exports to Japan
from 1895 to 1905 has been greater
than that to South America. Africa.
Oceania, or Asia exclusive of Japan
and China; while the growth to Japan
and China in combination has been
greater than that to the remainder of
Asia, plus Africa. South America. and
Oceania.
This growth in exports to Japan has
occurred chiefly in very recent years.
A statement just issued by the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor
through its Bureau of Statistics shows
the details of commercial movements
between the United States and its
neighbors On the west. The exports
to Japan, as indicated. were but little
over million dollars in 1895. and had
reached 81 million dollars in 1903.
when the extraordinary demands for
foOdstuffs, railway material, machin-
cry of all sorts. and material for cloth
ing during the war pushed the total
up to BIZ millions in 1904 and
ssh millions in 1905. Exports to
China, which were but little less than
millions in 1895, Jagged until 1908,
when they were Is million dollars;
they grew to % millions in 1904, and
by reason of the unusual demand for
American cottons and copper, as ex-
planned a week ago, grew to ssh mil
lions in 1905.
The articles which make up the
large and rapidly growing total of
American exports to Japan are more
widely diversified than in the trade
with China. The chief articles in the
exports to Japan and their values in
the fiscal year 1905 were raw cotton;
practically IL million dollars; manu-
features of iron and steel, about 10
million dollars; flour, millions;
leather, millions; mineral oil, nearly
8 millions; provisions, including meat,
butter, condensed milk, and canned
foods of various kinds, about Q mil
lions; cotton cloths, a little over 1 mil
lion; copper, q little over million,
and breadstu1s other than flour,
little over million.
This diversifcation is q marked
characteristic of trade with Japan in
recent years. Raw cotton exports to