Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-09
OUR TRADE With CHINA

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| The trade of the United States with
China shows a very rapid growth dur
ing the past decade. especially in ex-
ports to that country. tho the imports
from China also show an increase. To-
tai exports to China in the calendar
year 1895 We're sS,703.922. and in 1905
S5S,574, 1893; the total imports from
China were, in 1895, S21 .S42, $50. and in
1905 $2S,1S,s11. In addition to the ex-
ports direct. there should be consid-
cred those to Hongkong, British COL
ony on the coast of China, which is, in
fact, door thru which large quantities
of merchandise enter that country. To
Hongkong the exports of the United
States grew from $4,462S56 in 1895 20
$S,0S0,S26 in 1905. and the imports from
to s1,6s5,O in 1905.
The largest growth in the exports to
China occurred in 1905. in which the
total value OF merchandise exported to
taht country was $5S,574,793, against
S27,921,0 in 1904 and s14,97O,13S in
1903. This phenomenal growth was
due in part TO- the fact that large con-
tracts for American cotton cloths were
made in the latter part of 1904, in the
expectation that Manchuria and other
sections of northern China would be
open to commerce in 1906. Much of
American cottons are especially popu-
lar because of their stability to the
climate of that temperate-zone region,
had been within the war area, and its
stocks of material Of this character
were exhausted, hence the large con-
tracts made in the latter part of 1904
for American cottons in China and the
large expectation of cotton goods to
China in the calendar year 1905, which
amounted to s33,514,s1S, against s13,-
911,566 in 1904 and sS.SO1, 964 in 1903. In
addition to this unusually large expor-
tation of cotton cloths, there was sent
to China in 1905 $11,747,267 worth of
copper, against $1,350,352 in 1904, the
large increase in exports of copper be-
ing due to tle demand for manufacture
into copper coins by the minis of the
various provinces Thus the large in
crease occurred almost exclusively in
al {1,o
in the former being about 20 million
and in the latter about 10 million dol
lars.
The principal articles exported TO
China are cotton cloths, copper, min
eral oil, cigarettes, flour, and miscel-
laneous manufactures of iron and steel
OF the exports in the calendar year
1905, cotton cloths were valued at $685.
514,s1s; copper, s11,747,267; mineral
Oil, s6,4S5,5S7; manufactured tobacco,
chiefly cigarettes, s1,300,475, and flour,
$445,O53: but to Hongkong the exports
of flour were s2,903,ss4, a large proper
ton of which went into China.
The principal imports from China
are raw silk, tea, hides and skins. wool. !
and opium. The value OF
raw silk imported from China in the
calendar year 1905 was $9,50O,5S9; of
tea, $5,i55,s4O; of carpet wool, s3,2O4,-
613. The figures of the fiscal year 1905
show the value of opium from China
as $1,469,94S and of hides and skins,
81, 535, PAL, OF which over million dol |
lars represented goatskins.
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