New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Foreign Trade for the Year L'kefy
to Erceed So, 900 100000
From The rribun. Bureau!

Tribune
Washington Feb 24.-The foreign commerce
of the Tinted States in the first months or
the current fiscal year amounted TO Sl'io-'t-i'-
$40 or an average of S25OOO0000 month In
that period. Should IL continue at TINS rate III
the remainder of the year. the total foreign COM
merce for the fiscal year 1906 would eHceeu
So 600 100000, a figure which has not Deeh
reached in any previous year In the history OF
our foreign trade This Increase which is
shown by figures just issued by the Department
of Commerce and Labor through it's bureau OF
statistics, occurs In both imports ana exports
but especially in exports.
In the seven months ending with January. I'M
ports have increased S7OO00.0GO over the cor
responding months Of the preceding fiscal year
and exports have increased S1550O0On I'M
ports in the seven months ending with January
1906 were $685.. 764. 5t;6. against S625,9l4513 In
the corresponding months of last year. and ex-
ports valued at S1Oo6,6o6.l6 4. against
1901 190O26 in the same months of last year.
This gives larger total of imports. and a much
larger total of exports than in the same months
of any preceding year. Imports. which had
never touched S1O0,O0O.OOO in a single month
prior 10 1905. except on one or two occasions
a result of prospective tariff changes. ex-
ceeded that sum In six of the twelve months
ending with January; while exports exceeded
$100000O0 in each of the twelve months, and In
December lacked but few thousand dollars of
touching the 20O0OOOO0 line. The increase I'm
importations occurs chiefly In manufacturers
materials and finished manufactures, while the
increase in expectations occurs chiefly in agri-
cultural products and manufactures.
A feature of especial interest in the export
record is the marked increase which has de-
veloped In the last few months in the eXporta-
tion of breadstufs and provisions. The value
of breadstuffs exported in January amounted TO
over S26OOO!OOO. and in December to a like sum-
which is larger value of breadstuffs exported
than in any month since August 1901. This
marked increase IN the exDortation of bread
stuffs occurs In corn wheat and wheat -four.
wheat exports in the month of January being
over 100000 bushels. against 100000 bushels
in January of the preceding year; flour 100000
barrels. against 100000 in January. 1908. while
corn exports increased from 100000 bushels
In January. 1905, to 27.OOO0OO in January Of
the present year.
January also shows a marked increase In the
expectation Of provisions. under which term are
included meats and dairy products. the total for
that month being S24.OoO,0O0. against $1,000
600 in January Of last year. For the seven
months ending with January provisions showed
a total expectation Of S134.O00.OO0. against
S1OS,OOO,OQO for the corresponding period Of the
preceding year.
compared with January. 1905. the quantity
being 1885, 100000 pounds against 419OOOOO0 in
January of last year. though the value for jan
uary. 1906, is practically S39.0O0,O00. against
$3O5O0OOO in January, 1905. the export price of
cotton in January of the present year having
been 116 cents, as compared with 7.3 cents in
January OF the preceding year.
The total exports of breadstufs In December.
1906. and January. 1906. We're practically two and
Io10 linz
months of the preceding fiscal year Provisions
also show a marked increase In exports In De-
cember 1905, and January, 1906. the total for
those two months being more than S4O.OOO.OOO.
against $27 100000 in the corresponding months
of the preceding fiscal year.
The increase in exports of breadstuffs and
provisions is widely distributed, but seems to Re
especially marked in the exports TO the United
Kingdom. Details of the January exports by
articles have not yet been announced by the
bureau OF statistics. but for the month of De-
Cember there was an increase of a little more
than S2,000OO0 in the exports of to the
United Kingdom of little more than S1,5oOoOo
10 Germany, about 100000 to The Netherlands.
and nearly S1OOO,OO0 to other countries of Eu-
rope. compared with December of the proceed
ing year. In wheat the increase 10 the United
Kingdom in December. 1905, compared with De-
cember. 1904. more than 100000; to
France, than $1,000 600. and TO Germany
a little more than 100000 In wheat flour the
increase to the United Kingdom was So, 100000.
to Germany about 100000. and to other Euro
pean countries less than 100000. In meats the
increase also more strongly marked in the
case of the United Kingdom than in that of any
other country. Canned beef shows increase
to the United Kingdom of about S225.000 and
to Germany about $1,000; sailed or picked
beef to the United Kingdom an increase of about
$4,000, and to Germany about S223, 900; bacon
TO the United Kingdom an increase of about
$82S,O00. and to Germany $4,000; pork to the
United Kingdom an increase of about 1928 900.
to Germany is larger than to any other country
being in December. 1905, 81 100000 IN excess of
December 1904, while the increase to all other
parts of the world combined in that period was
a little more than 81 100000.
The increase in exports to the United Kingdom
in December, 1905 as compared with December
of the preceding year. was S24 100000; to Ger
many Sc 900 900: 10 The Netherlands. So, 600 000
to Italy, 100000: to Belgium. $2.5OOOOO. and
to France $4,5O0000.