The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-14
GOODS WE IMPORT
COTTON MANUFACTURES A
LARGE A ITEM.
Paying Many Millions Every Year to
Europe for the High Grade Ar
ticles Made from Staple We Grow.

WASHINGTON. Nov. H-Cotton manu-
features imported into the United States
in the year which ends with next month
will exceed SIS, OOo,O 900 in value and ma
terially exceed the value of such manufac-
lures imported in any earlier year. In the
min months ending with September, 1907.
the total value Of cotton manufactures i'm
ported was, as shown by the figures of
the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, in round
terms, $50, 600, 900, against SOL, 10000 in the
same months of 1906, 1913, 900, 600 in the cor
responding months of 1905, and sS5, 900, 000 IN
the corresponding months of 1904; and
should the importations of this class of
merchandise during the remaining three
months of the calendar year average as
high as in the nine months for which a
record Is already made, the total would
approximate $50, 0OO,0 900, and it seems almost
certain to exceed SIS, 900, 0O0.
Despite the fact that the United States
produces t~hree-fourths of the worlds cot
ton, has a larger number of spindles than
any other country except the United
Kingdom. has invested capital of over
$500. 600. 900 in its cotton manufacturing es-
Establishments and turns out products
valued at S500.00O, 900 per mum, including
cotton knit goods in this figure-the value
Of cotton manufactures imported Is
steadily increasing and was in the fiscal
years 1907 twice as great as in 1897, over
2A times as great as in 1887. and nearly four
times as great as in 1877. while in the
calendar year 1907 the value promises to
exceed by several millions the former
high-record total and to approximate $780,
100000.
This large importation of cotton manu-
features in the present year places the
United States in the third rank among the
worlds importers of cotton manufactures,
being exceeded only by India with an
importation of 1888, 900, 900, including all
classes of cotton manufactures, and China,
$125, 900, 900, In 1906, Of which total nearly
one-half is cotton yarn.
On the export side the United States
holds a much lower raj than as an i'm
porter of cotton goods, the value of cot
ton manufactures exported in 1906, its
high-record year, being about $4,000, 600,
against SIS, 900, 900 exported from France,
Sis, 900, 900 from Germany, and $500, co., 900
from the United Kingdom In the latest
available year. In the nine months ending
with September, 1907, the value of cotton
manufactures exported from the United
States was little more than one-third the
value of cotton manufactures imported,
the total value of all cotton manufac-
lures exported having been $50, $50, 267, and
that of all cotton manufactures imported,
SOS. 796, sol.
This large and rapidly growing i'm
portation of cotton manufactures occurs
chiefly IN the high-grade cotton goods,
and especially those in which hand labor
forms an important part In their produc-
ton. OF the total of $5S, 796, COL worth of
= A -.r- -,-A.R L. H. rtnA
months ending with September, $30,629, 1868
was included In the general group of
faces. e~dgings, embroideries. insertings,
neck rulings, ruchings, trimmings, tuck
ings. lace window curtains, etc. :" 1864, 106
was cotton cloihs-bleached, dyed, coll
ored. stained, painted. or printed; $7,247 ,567
knit goods; while the remainder in
cluded pushes. velvets and velveteens,
n thread, yarn, etc. The general group
faces, embroideries. etc." shows a much
larger growth than any other class OF
cotton goods imported, having grown from
$50, 900, 600, in round terms, In 1905 to 10000.
900 in 1907, an increase of SO, 900, 600 In the
] two years, while cotton manufactures of all
other classes when combined showed an
: increase of but 50, 900 in the same period.
A comparison of the figures of the fiscal
: year 1907 with those of still earlier years
! shows that the group. faces, embroid-
cries, etc. IOTHb IL bleHuly licIehsihB
/ share OF the cotton manufacture i'm
Z ported, The average annual value
of the cotton manufactures imported
in the period 1S91-1s95 was about $4,000, 900,
and of that sum the group. laces, embroid-
cries, ETC., formed nearly $11, 0,O00. or over
80 per cent. In the period 1901-19O5 the aver
age annual value of cotton manufactures
imported was 100000, Of which total
laces, embroideries, etc, supplied s23, $780,
900, or 80 per cent. of the total; while in the
nine months ending with September, 1907,
the total was. as already indicated, $5S, 1885,
COL. of which the group, laces. edgings.
embroideries, etc., formed $50, 629, 1868. or 50
per cent. of the total.
Switzerland and France are the largest
sources of supply for the laces, edgings,
embroideries, etc, imported into the
United States, now averaging about $t0,-
600, 900 annually. OF the $50, 629, 1858 worth
imported in the nine months ending with
September, 1907, $40, 742. 40s is accredited to
Switzerland by the figures supplied to the
Bureau of Statistics by the customs houses
of the United States; $9,467, SS7 to France;
SIS, 401,S 5S to the United Kingdom and
81, POS, 55S to Germany.