The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-01-18
We LEAD IN EXPORTS
UNITED STATES sURPAssEs ALL
OTHER NATIONS.
Products Valued at $t,70o, 100000
Shipped to Europe and Other
Countries During the
Past Year.


: Past Year.
Washington United States is
now the largest exporting nation in
the world OF the s1,700,000 900 OF
products sent from American ports
during the year, Sl,00O,000,O0O 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 ID
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 S25S,000,.
600; in 1856. but $1i5,O00,000, and in
1876 S105000,000 The share which
manufactures formed of the total eX.
ports was. in 1906, AZ per cent; in
1896. but 80 per cent; in 1886, but %
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
at that time
This is the first time that exports
of manufactures have crossed or even
approximated the $700,000,000 line.
Even in the fiscal year 1906. which
is only six months away, the total ex.
ports of manufactures were but
$6s6, 1000 900: in 1905, $6l2,000, 900; in
1904. s523,OOO, ,000 in 1908, si6S, ,000,.
900: in 1902, s45I 100000; in 1901,
s466, 900 900; in 1900. siS4,OO0, 900; in
1899. 3S0,0O0 900. and in 1898, 1925.
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. or
the S6S6, 100000 worth of manufac-
lures exported in the fiscal year 1906
S13S, 100000 worth went TO Europe,
slS2 100000 to North America, $40.
100000 to asia $6i 100000 to South
America, $50, 200. 900 to Oceanica, and
$l3, 100000 to Africa. OF the S3lS,.
100000 worth of manufactures sent TO
Europe $73,000,000 was manufactures
of copper si6,OOO,O0 mineral oil, sid,.
100000 manufactures of iron and
steel. s32,O00,000 manufactures of
wood, S27,000000 leather and manu-.
features thereof, Sl6,000,0O0 naval
stores, sl3000,000 agricultural implc.
mcnts, and the remainder miscella
ncous manufactures.
OF the s1S2, 100000 worth OF manu-
features sent to the various countries
Of North America 100000 was iron
and steel manufactures, slS,000,00O
wood manufactures. sl0.000.000 cot.
ton goods, $4,000 900 leather and man.
ufactures thereof, and $7500O00 cars
and carriages.
The United States now holds third
rank among nations as an exporter
of manufactures. The total exports
of manufactures from the United
Kingdom in the latest year for which
statistics are available were sl,333,-
100000; from Germany, 500 900, 900;
from the United States, 500 900, 900;
from France, SG61 900, 900, from the
Netherlands, $347 100000; from Aus.
tria.Hungary s215,OO0,OOO; from Bel.
GUM, $204, 100000; from Italy, 5000,
100000; from Switzerland, $i41 900.
00O and from Russia, si7,000,OOO.
1t will thus be seen that in this
grouping of the worlds great export.
ers of manufactures the United
States now stands third in the list,
though 1t is proper to add that the
figures for the United States are for
the calendar year 1906, while those
for practically all tho other nations
quoted are for the year 1905.
Manufactures form. however, a
much larger percentage of the OK.
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, 20 per cent; Ger
many, 6I per cent; Italy. 60 per
cent, and of the United States, as
above indicated, 43 per cent. in the
calendar year just ended.