Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-29
Exports to That Country During
Past Year Amounted to
Over $17,OOO,OOO
WAR CAUSES SOME sHRINKAeE
Figures Do Not Show the Total
Amount Of Goods Shipped to Russia,
AS Many consignments Go to Ports
Outside Of Russia and Then Trans
shipped to That Country.

Washington, Jan. 29.-Trade of the
the Asiatic part, during the fiscal year
1905, as shown by the records of the
bureau Of statistics, department of
commerce and labor, amounted to $685.
100000, Of which 11,S00,000 represented
imports into the United States and
$11,000,000 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 $31,3OO,OOO, of
which s11,90o,OOO were imports and
$19,400,O00 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
Russia and vice versa are often con-
signed to various ports of intermediate
countries and transsh5pped, particularly
raw cotton, the largest item of Amer
l6 IN eXpoftatlon TO Russia.
Other Countries Heavy Buyers.
AS matter of fact the officially re-
corded imports of American cotton into
Russia during the five-year period end
ing Dec 81, 1904 were 919,534,00
pounds. while our exports to that coun
try during the five-year period ending
June 80, 1904, are stated in official re-
ports of the bureau of statistics to have
been 266, OO6,O00 pounds, or less than 30
per cent of the direct imports recorded
by the Russian custom authorities.
Furthermore, besides S19,500,0O0 worth
of raw cotton credited to the United
States imports of cotton to the amount
of $24,3OO,000 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 20 per
cent? of their supply from the United
States.
Russia Buys More and Sells Less.
Allowing for these additional fea-
lures 1t is stated that a conservative
estimate of the total value of the COM
merce, both direct and indirect, would
place the value at not less that $685.
UU,UUU 10 SOU,uUU,UUU, VI WiiSAA ~hO'o0"'
900 to $5O,O0O,OOO represent the value
of goods shipped to Russia from this
country and about $10,000,o00 to the
value of goods shipped from Russia
to the United States.
The principal imports from uhe
United States consist of raw material
such as are not produced there 81 all
Cute, manila, hemp, etc., or produced
in insufficient quantities.
The principal imports into Russia
from the United States for the calen-
dar year 1903, the latest year for which
complete returns for the entire empire
are available, are raw cotton, valued
at s24.33S,0 900, which includes the value
of direct imports only: machinery,
chiefly agricultural machinery of the
more complex type, which aggregated
s2,574,OOO in value; iron steel, copper,
dives. etc. The average imports from
the United States for the years 1894
1895 were $24,771, 900, while the aver
age imports for the period 1S99-19O3
are but s23,276,oO0, these being ex-
elusive of the indirect imports, which,
&c in the case of cotton, reach con-
siderable proportions.
Import Hides from Russia.
The principal imports into the UNI
ted States from Russia are raw mater
ials. principally raw wool and hides
and skins, whose combined value con-
stitutes nearly so per cent of the total
imports credited to that country as a
whole, other articles being vegetable
fibers. mainly flax and hemp, the I'M
ports of which during the fiscal year
1905 were valued at $752,72o; India
rubber old and scrap, $4o1,S43; furs
and fur skins, undressed, $354,597;
licorice root, s2S7,O1S; hair, unmanu-
featured, $236,o19; manganese ore,
s17s .3O6; bristles, s125,11S; furs and
manufactures of $1O1,728. The imports
of sugar, which in 1901 were valued
at s71s,516, have since ceased.
OF the total imports into Russia
over the European frontier in 1904 the
share credited to the United States
constitutes 1917 per cent, while of the
total imports into this country during
the fiscal year 1905 the share credited
to Russia is 1.5 per cent.
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