Arizona republican., 1906-06-11
TENFOLD GAIN
 IN TEN YEARS
This COuntry'S Trade With
 Japan
From a Volume of Five Millions in 1895, it Reached Fiftyfive Millions in 1905.

Washington, June 1O.-The trade Of the United States with Japan is larger than with any other oriental country. and aggregated in 1905 106 million dol lars The exports to Japan have grown from a little more than million doi- lars in the calendar year 1895 to over 55 millions in 1905, being more than ten times as great in 1905 as in 1895. The imports from Japan also show a material increase. having been 2 and one-half million dollars in 1895 and nearly 51 millions in 1905. The gain in exports to Japan. comparing 1905 with 1895 is not quite so rapid as in those to China. In the period from 1895 to 1905 the exports to Japan in creased 45 million dollars. and those to China increased practically 55 millions. During the same period imports rom Japan increased 23 million dollars, while those from China increased but about millions.
 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 in crease in exports to Japan was in round terms 50 million dollars, while during the same period the growth in exports to all South America was but
 g million dollars, to all Africa but 10 millions, to Oceania, including Hawaii.
 30 millions. and to all Asia, except Ja- pan and China 13 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 Af- rica. South America and Oceania.
 This growth in exports to Japan has occurred chiefly in very recent years. A statement just issued by the depart ment of commerce and labor through i its bureau of statistics, shows the de- tails of commercial movements be-
 tween the United States and it's neigh bors on the west. The exports to Japan
 as indicated, were but a little over 3 million dollars in 1895, and had reach
 ed q million dollars in 1903, when the
 extraordinary demand for foodstufes
 railway material, machinery Of all sorts. and material for clothing dur | ing the war pushed the total up 10 31 and half millions in 1904 and 55 and
 three-quaTter millions in 1905. Exports | to China, which were but little less
 than millions in 1895. Jagged until 1908, when they were 15 million dol | lars; they grew to 2S millions in 1894 and by reason of the unusual demand | for American cottons and copper, as
 explained d week ago, grew to 5S and one-half millions in 1905.
 ! The articles which make up the large
 and rapidly growing total of American
 exports to Japan are more widely di- versified than in the trade to China | The chief articles in the exports to Japan and their values in the fiscal year 1905 were raw cotton, practically
 l7 million dollars; manufactures of iron and steel about 10 million dol lars; flour, millions; leather. mil | lions; mineral oil. nearly 9 millions; provisions, including meat, butter | condensed milk. and canned foods ot
 various kinds, about millions; cotton
 cloth, little over 1 million; copper. a 1 little over l million, and breadstuffs other than flour, a little more than 1 million.
 | This diversification is marked
 characteristic of trade with Japan in ! recent years. Raw cotton exports to Japan in the fiscal year 1895 amount ed to less than l million dollars, to F million dollars in 1900, and were | practically r millions in 1905. far in
 excess of any earlier year. Manufac-
 lures of iron and steel exported to Ja- pan in 1895 amounted to less than one-
 half million dollars. and 1905, were