The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-05-17
OUR EXPORTS OF
MANUFACTURES
They Amounted to More Than
S7O0.OOO,00 in the Calan-
der Year Ending Dec. 81.

features from the United States now
exceed 700 million dollars per annum
and have doubled in value in single
decade. Not only has the export ton
of manufactures doubled in a decade,
but the share which products of the
factory form of the total exports is
steadily increasing. In 1880 manufac-
lures formed but 10 per cent. of the
total exports of domestic products;
in 1890 they formed Il per cent, in
1900, 80 per cent, and in 1906, 40 per
cent.
With the rapid increase of popula-
ton in the United States, and there
fore of the consumption of natural
products, the quantity food and raw
materials remaining for distribution
to other parts of the world has not
increased proportionately; and with
the development of manufacturing ia
cilities and the trend of population TO
the manufacturing centers, production
of manufactures has rapidly increased
and the surplus of these manufac-
lures which may be spared for foreign
markets has also increased. Food
stuffs, which in 1890 formed AZ per
cent. of the total exports of domestic
products. formed in 1906 but 81 per
cent. of the total; articles in crude
condition for use in manufacturing,
which in 1890 formed 36 per cent. of
the total, formed in 1906 but 20 per
cent: while manufactures, as already
indicated, increased their share in the
exports from q per cent. in 1890 TO
40 per cent. in 1906.
In the decade ending with 1905 eX-
ports of manufactures from the United
States increased 19S per cent, while
those from Germany increased 20 per
cent, those from the United Kingdom
40 per cent. This rapid increase in the
exports of manufactures from the
United States has brought her to the
third rank in the list OF the worlds ex-
porters of manufactures. The four
greatest producers of manufactures for
expectation and the value of manufac-
lures exported by each of them in 1906
are as follows: The United Kingdom,
l.4O0 million dollars; Germany, 1000
millions; the United States, 100 mil
lions; and France, 500 millions. These
figures, however, are approximate on
", since the figures of the exports OF
the European counties are not yet at
hand in sufficient detail TO render pos
sible an exact statement of the value
OF manufactures exported in that
year.
The growth of the manufacturing In
dustry in the United States has oc-
Cured chiefly in the last twenty-five
years. Stated in round terms, the CEN
sus figures of the gross value of man
ufactures in theUnited States are: For
1850, / billion dollars; 1860, 2 billions;
1870, 4 billions; 1880, 1-3 billions;
1905, IA 2-3 billions, the figures for 1905
being exclusive of neighborhood indus
tries and hand trades included in pre-
vious years.
The increase in the production of
manufactures in the United States,far
in excess of home requirements, has
forced our manufacturers to seek mar
kets in other parts of the world for
their surplus product. The result has
been a rapid increase in the exporta-
ton of manufactures. The total value
of manufactures exported from the
United States has grown from less
than s million dollars in 1920 to %
million dollars in 1880 As 1-2 millions
in 1860, 20 millions in 1870, 122 MILL
ions in 1880, 179 millions in 1890, and
4S5 millions in 1900, since which time
the annual total bias not fallen below
the 400 million dollar line. while in
the calendar year 1906 the total ex-
ceeded 700 million dollars. In the fis-
cal year 1906, the latest period for
WHICH uetdlleu llSuItS VI ihe eAppIlS
by countries are available, the exports
of manufactures We're valued al $50
million dollars, of which 31S millions
worth went to Europe, 1872 millions TO
North America,64 1-2 millions TO South
America, and rs ga millions to Asia,
while the remainder was divided be-
tween Oceania and Africa.
That this growth has been espe-
cially marked in recent years is shown.
by the fact that the actual increase
by decades in exports of manufactures
has been as follows: During the de-
cade ending with 1880, is millions;
1910, 5.S millions; 1850, rs millions;
1860, 25.2 millions; 1870, PIG millions;
1880, SIS millions; 1890, 57.2 millions;
1900, 305.9 millions; and during the
six years ending with 1906, 201.5 mill
ions. Thus the growth of exports of
manufacturers in the sixteen years
following 1890 was practically three
times as great as that of the entire
seventy years precedingthat year.
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