The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-21
We LEAD N EXPORTS
UNITED STATES sURPAssEs ALL
OTHER NArIoNs.
Products Valued At st,7oo, 900, 900
Shipped to Europe and Other
Countries During the
5@ Past Year.

washington.-The United States 10
nov the largest exporting nation In
THO world. OF the $1,000. 000. 900 Of
products sent from American ports
during the year, $1,000, oo0. 900 con.
sisted Of natural products and $780,.
100000 Of manufactured products.
In the latter classification the
United States shows the most re-
markable increase. According to the
report. Of the bureau Of statistics just
issued this country now supplies IL
per Cent. Of the total Of the value Of
all kinds of manufactures now en-
tering the worlds international COM
merce. The report states:
Ten years ago, in the fiscal year
1896. they amounted to but $25s, 000,-
900; in 1885. but $145. 100000, and in
1876 s105, 100000. The share which
manufactures formed of the total ex-
sports was, in 1906, AZ per cent; in
1896, but 80 per cent; in 1886, bute22
| per cent, and in 1876, 20 per cent.
Thus the exports of manufactures in
1906 are three and one-half times as
! great as a decade ago. and the share
which manufactures form Of the total
exports about one-third greater than
sssat that time.
This Is the first time that exports
$of manufactures have crossed or even
a,proximated the $700,000,000 line.
Even in the fiscal year 1906, which
Els only six months away, the total ex-
ports Of manufactures were but
I $3.50, 900 900; in 1906. $612, 1000, 900; in
R1904, $523,000.000; in 1903, $46S, 000,-
5000; in 1902, $454.000.000; in 1901,
I $466. 100000; in 1900. $4s4.000,000; in
1899, $3tO,000,0o0, and in 1898, $685.
100000. Thus the exports of manu-
features in the calendar year 1906 are
practically twice as great in value
as in the fiscal year 1898, having thus
doubled in eight years.
Practically one-half of the manu-.
features exported from the United
States goes to Europe, the great man.
ufacturing section of the world. OF
the $3.50, 000,0 900 worth of manufac-
lures exported in the fiscal year 1906
$138;000,000 worth went to Europe,
1882, 100000 to North America, $780,
100000 to asia, $64,000,000 to South
America, $30,000,000 to Oceanica, and
,$13,000,000 to Africa. OF the $685..
100000 worth Of manufactures sent to
Europe $73,000,000 was manufactures
of copper SAC, 100000 mineral oil, $44,-
100000 manufactures of iron and
steel, $32,000.000 manufactures of
wood, $27,000.000 leather and manu-
features thereof, $16,000,000 naval
stores, $13,000.000 agricultural nipple
ments, and the remainder miscella.
neous manufactures.
OF the 1882, 100000 worth of manu-.
features sent to the various countries
of North America $72,000,000 was iron
and steel manufactures, $4,000, 900
wood manufactures, $10,000,000 cot
ton goods, $S,000,000 leather and man.
ufactures thereof, and $7,500,000 cars
and carriages.
The United States now holds third
rank among nations as an exporter
of manufactures. The total experts
of manufactures from the United
Kingdom in the latest year for which
statistics are available were $685.
100000: from Germany, $4,000, 900;
from the United States, 500, 900 900;
from France, 1861, 100000; from the
Netherlands, $347. 100000; from Aus.
. tria-Hungary, s215,000,0O0; from Bel
GUM, $204,000,000; from Italy, 5000,
100000; from Switzerland, $141, 000,-
0o0, and from Russia, $17,000,000.
It will thus ne seen that in this
grouping Of the worlds great export
ers of manufactures the United
States now stands third in the list.
though 1t 10 proper to add that the
figures for the United States are for
the calendar year 1906, while those
for practically all the other nations
quoted are for the year 1905.
Manufactures form. however. a
much larger percentage Of the ex-
ports of the great MANUFACTURING
countries of Europe than they do OF
the exports Of the United States.
The share which manufactures form
Of the exports Of the United King.
dom is SO per cent?. Switzerland. 76
per cent; France, 70 per cent: Ger.
many. 81 per cent; Italy, 60 per
cent, and of the United States. as
above indicated, 43 per cent. in the
calendar year just ended.
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