Arizona republican., 1907-01-14
OUR TRADE
 WITH CHINA A Falling Off in Cotton
 and Kerosene
The United States, How ever, Not the Only Losing Nation.

in importation of cotton goods into
 China is not confined to the American
 product Much interest and some an Xiety have been developed in the
 United States by reason Of the fact
 that our own export figures show d
 fall of about If million dollars in the
 value of cotton cloths sJpt tn China
 in the T. months ending with Noyem-
 Der 1905, compared with the corres-
 bonding months of 1905. This
 falling off was explained by those ac-
 quainted with that trads as iaIsciy The
 result of over importatiOns of cotton goods into China last yea. and figures
 from China just received by the Du-
 reau of statistics of the CCpartInent of commerce ana labor seem To sustain
 the assertion that the r,duCiu9 in
 China just received by ,ne GhuotYru China's imports is general ard not aimed exclusively at the products If
 the United States.
 The commercial statements of the
 Chinese government are issued in
 quarterly and annual statements. The quarterly statements give merely the quantity of certain articles entering
 the principal ports of China. but do not give the figures of value. They are further complicated by the fact that
 the figures of imports of the interior and smaller coast cities include the merchandise reshipped thence from the larger ports of China. IL is not prac- ticable, therefore, to state from these quarterly returns the aggregate quan-
 tity of the various classes of cotton cloths imported into all China. The fact, however, that Shanghai is the principal port of original entry for cot ton goods and many other leading articles imported. and that more than two-thirds of the total imports of China enter originally at Shanghai. in dicates that an examination of the trend of the import trade of China for the elapsed period of the current year.
 These quarterly statements of the Chinese government regarding the i'm ports of the current year have reached the bureau of statistics and cover the three quarters ending with September. 1906. A combination of these three quarterly statements from the United Kingdom. our chief. rival in cotton trade of China, is as great proportion ately as in the case of the United States
 The four principal classes of cotton goods which China has been accustom- ed to draw from the United States and the United Kingdom in any con- siderable quantities are cotton sheet ings. shirtings. drills and jeans.
 The quarterly statements in question show that the imports at Shanghai of American gray sheetings which in creased from 99O.42 pieces in the nine months ending with September. 1904, to 6.163.S2O pieces in the nine months ending with September. 1905, fell to 4.750. "A pieces in the nine months end- ing with September. 1906. English gray sheetings, the imports of which amounted to 414,S11 piSes in the nine months ending with September. 1903. were 343.3lS pieces in the same months of 1905, and 2S3.265 pieces in the cor responding months of 1906. Of Jap anese sheetings, the imports in the first nine months of 1904 were 115.26O pieces; in the corresponding months of 1905. they were 46.962 pieces. and in nine months of 1906. 1.6SO235 pieces
 VI ullllS Int llllO SildIkTlal. of the American product were, for the nine months ending with September, 1904. 7O2.1S9 pieces; in the nine months of 1905. 2.525.534 pieces. and in the nine months of 1906. 16SO.235 pieces Of English drills the imports into Shanghai were. in the nine months of 1904. 7S.S93 pieces: in the same months of 1905. 215.667 pieces: and in the cor months of 1906. 145.654 pieces. Of Japanese drills. the imports into Shanghai in the nine months of 1904, were 37.233 pieces: in the same months of 1905 S1 pieces. and in the months of 1906. 2.566 pieces
 Of American jeans the imports into Shanghai in the nine months ending | with September. 1904. were S9.S6O ] pieces; in the correspondinb months ,f 1905 32O.O7O pieces, and in he same period of 1906. 212.SS pieces. 1 of English jeans the import figures | were, for the nine months Of 1904, | ,32.962 pieces: of 1905, 64O.OO5 pieces. | md of 1906. 24J,162 pieces. Of Dutch | cans the import figures for the nine | months of 1904 were 5.6SS pieces; of | 1905. 63.319 pieces. and of 1906. 1s,- ,91 pieces.
 Of American gray shirtings the i'm port figures for the first nine months f 1904 were 61,324 pieces; of 1905. '42. .663 pieces, and of 1906. 239.145 pieces. Of English gray shirtings the imports in the nine months of 1904 were 2.490.674 pieces; of 1905, 5.154,- SS pieces. and of 1906. 3.794.241 pieces. md of Japanese gray shirtings the i'm ,orts in the nine months Of 1904 were LAO pieces: of 1905. 3.994 pieces, and If 1906. 1.221 pieces.
 A condensation of these statements egarding the various great classes Of otton goods imported at Shanghai heetings, shirtings. drills and jeans hOws that the total number of pieces f these four principal classes of cotton -OOds from the United States was in he nine months ending with Septem- er. 1905. 9.352. .OS7, and in the cores onding period of 1906, a reduction of 6 per cent: and that the number Of ieces of English goods of these four 1 lasses imported was. in the nine