Arizona republican., 1906-09-09
ADOPTION OF
 NEW METHODS
In Classification of Com
 merCial Statistics
Bureau MOdifies Plan of Analysis to Meet Present Conditions.

| classif, cation of imports and exports. ] with the purpose of presenting an an alysis more in keeping with present conditions of production and com | merce than those formerly utilized The old classification of exports into the great groups. products of az riculture, manufactures. Mines. for ests and fisheries. was adopted thirty six years ago. when the United States
 was chiefly producer and exporter of natural products, the exports of manufacturers at that time being about One-tenth as great as today.
 These two classifications of imports differed so widely that they were not comparable one with the other in at tempts to analyze the general trade movements into and out of the coun- try. Meanwhile the prime pal Euro pean nations have adopted classifiGa- tions adjusted to present conditions of trade and differing materially from those utilized in the United States. and thus rendering difficult a com parison of our own trade figures by groups with those of the leading Euro pean countries. Stfll another and equally important reason for readjust- ing the old grouping is the fact that the census classif- cation of manufac- lures includes under. that term many articles not classified as manufactures by the bureau of statistics. thus ren- dering difficult a comparison under the old classification of the export figures of manufactures with the cen sus figures of product,On By the new classification, however. such cOmpari- son is entirely practicable.
 The new classification. which is ap piled to both imports and exports, is as follows:
 A. Foodstuffs in natural state. and food animals.
 B.-Foodstuffs party or wholly pre- pared.
 C-Crude materials for use in man ufacturing.
 Manufactures for further use in manufacturing.
 E.-Manufactures for ready con sumption
 F.-Miscellaneous.
 The principal articles forming the first group, 'foodstUffs in natural state and food animals" are wheat corn. rice and other food grains; an imals, except horses and mules; cof- fee. tea and cocoa Tn natural state; eggs; fruits in natural state; fresh fish; vegetables and spices in the nat Ural state.
 The principal articles forming the second group. "foodstuffs partly or wholly prepared are flour. meal. and preparations for table food: fish pre- pared or canned; fruit dried. preserv- ed or canned; meats and dairy pro ducts; olive and cotton seed oil iR- tended for food; wines. liquors, and ! distilled spirits; sugar and molasses; ' canned or preserved vegetables.
 The principal articles forming the |, third group. crude materials for use in manufacturing are raw cot ton. wool silk and fibers; copper ore; ! matte and regulus; coal; chemicals in ! a crude state; mineral oil. crude; cot ! ton seed and flaxseed; leaf tobacco; | logs pulp wood, and cabinet wood
 The principal articles forming the ' class Manufactures for further use in ! manufacturing are copper in pigs, bars and ingots; chemicals pre- i pared for use in manufacturing; tin in | pigs, or blocks; yarn, iron in pigs. ! billets, blooms bars, ingOts. sheets, tin [ plates. and wire rods; diamonds cut | but not set; naval stores; paraff n; ] leather; sawed and hewn timber. Ium- ] ber. and wood pulp.
 The principal articles included in the i
  sumption" are agricultural imple- l ments. books, cars and carriages, | clocks, and watches, manufactures of ! cotton, wool, silk and fibers. cloth | ing. glass. glassware and chinaware. | of iron, steel. brass, cop ! per. zinz. and lead, ready for use. jew elry. boots, shoes and gloves; refined l oil. vegetable o,Is except those 2 used for food, animal oils. paper and . thereof. soap. manufac- lures of tobacco. furniture and other | finished manufactures.
 The principal articles forming the ] group miscellaneous" are horses and I mules. nursery stock, and seeds for az ricultural purposes.
 In the import classification the old 1 group articles of voluntary use. lux uries. etc" disappears. most of the | articles formerly contained in that group being transferred to the group ' manufactures ready for consumption | except diamonds. which are transfer red to the group crude materials for ltse in manufacturing, or "manufac- lures for use in manufacturing" ac- eording to the condition in which they are imported, and leaf tobacco. which is transferred to the group. "crude materials for use in manufacturing"
 n the export classification the ar ficles included in the old group products of agriculture" are chiefly to the groups ''foodstuffs partly or wholly prepared except raw cotton wool, bers. and hides 'I and skins. and unmanufactured to- K bacco which are transferred to the II group crude materials for use in The articles formerly Il grouped as products of the mines and Il forests are chiefly transferred to the II group crude materials for use in Il except lumber and | naval stores, which are placed in the II group manufacture for further use II in manufacturing. Articles formerly Il grouped as products of the fisheries are transferred to the "foodstuffs'' groups. The articles formerly group II 7d as manufactures" are divided into n -wo groups, manufactures for fur Iner use in mauufa aCrurlnE'' and U