Arizona republican., 1906-05-28
WHERE TRADE
 Is DWINDLING
The United States Falling
 Behind in Africa
Its Trade With the Dark Continent Last Year was $50, 1000, O,OOO--LOwest Record in Five Years.

Washington, May 27.--Trade of the United States with Africa in :he fiscal year 1905 aggregated about 30 million dollars, the smallest total since 1900. The commerce of the United States with that continent reached its high est level in 1905 when the total was 51 million dollars. compared with 3012 millions in 1900, fl millions in 1895, and 10 millions in 1900. ImpOrtatiOns from Africa in 1906 were valued at 11a million dollars, an increase of nearly ? millions compared with the preceding year and of f millions compared with 1895. Exports to Africa in 1905 az gregated 1872 millions, against 24A millions in 1904 and : millions in 1895. The decrease in our exports to Afri- ca is but reflection of the reduction in its general imports since 1903. In- portations into the Cape of Good Hope, the chief commercial section, have de creased from fO4 million dollars in 1903 to 94 millions in 1905, a reduction of 70 million dollars in two years. Mean while Egypts imports advanced from S3 million dollars in 1903 to 10612 mil lions in 1905, but as our trade with that , country consists almost exclusively of imports. the growth of A millions in Egypt's purchases from foreign cOun- tries did not affect the volume of our exportations to that market. While there has been check in imports into 1 Africa, exports show growth those from Cape of Good Hope Gncluding raw gold) having increased from TOT million dollars in 1903 to 143 E mil 1 lions in 1905; and those of Egypt from ! 961a millions in 1903 to 100 2-3 millions 1 in 1905, and an even larger growth l compared with figures for a decade , earlier. The recent falling off in inn ports as compared with other years ] since 1900 would seem to indicate that ] the extraordinary purchases of machin- 1 cry, agricultural implements, builders ] hardware, railway and other material immediately following the resumption l of industry at the close of the war haNs i returned to normal conditions; while | the enlarged exports are due to an in- ] creased production and consequent in- 1 creased expOrtatiOns of gold and dia- monds Gold production in South Af- ! rica has increased from $74,S19,000 in 1899, the record year prior to the war 1 to $1OS,375,O 900 in 1905, the highest to- [ tai ever reached, while evidence oi ! greatly increased diamond production is seen in the fact that diamond ex- ports from the Cape of Good Hope in creased from 20 million dollars In 1S9: to over 31 millions in 1904.
 Despite the fact that both imports and exports in our trade with Africa
 show a decrease in 1905 as compared with the immediately preceding years the aggregate commerce passing IT
 each direction during the last decade
 is much larger than for any cores
 bonding period in earlier years. Sta
 tistics recently compiled by the De
 partment of Commerce and LabO
 through it's Bureau of Statistics show
 that imports from Africa in the tel
 years ending with 1905 aggregated 10
 million dollars, as compared with 8
 millions in the preceding decade; ant
 that exports to Africa in the last tel
 years amounted to 226 millions, agains
 less than 50 millions in the preceding
 decade.
 Of the total of 30 million dollars rep
 resenting the trade Of the United State
 with Africa in the fiscal year 1906, owe
 121a millions was with British Soutl
 Africa, 2A millions with British Wes
 Africa, 1 F millions with British Eas
 Africa, a little over 9 millions wit