Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-01
Export Trade in 1907 Larger
Than Any Year in History
of Commerce
s2,ooo,ooo,ooo IN EXPORTS ALONE
Dealings With Important Countries Of
the World Show EnIarsement-Ex-
ports Exceed Imports by Half Bill
lion EoIiar.-Where the Trade Has
Grown Substantially

CBy o. P. Austin. chief Of the Bureau
of Statistics. Department of Com
merce, and Labor).
Washington, Jan. 1.-EXports, two
billion dollars; imports, billion and
half
This is in a word, the story Of the
trade of the United States with other
parts of the world in the calendar year
1907. To get these large figures you
must, however. include the trade with
our noncontiguous territory, most of
which is now officially cassed with
our foreign commerce. since Porto
Rico, Hawaii and Alaska are now Gus
toms districts Of the United States. IT,
however, you are trying to measure the
value Of the merchandise entering the
ports of continental United States
in 1901 you may safely put it in round
terms in one and one-half billions. and
that of the merchandise leaving those
ports at two billions of dollars.
Omitting the trade with noncontigu-
Gus territory, the imports (from for
eign countries only will amount to
about s1,450,O0O,0OO and the exports
about $780, 100000. This viii show an
increase of about s15O,OOO.OOO in i'm
ports and over $1O0,O0O,OOO in exports
when compared with 1906.
In both imports and exports the to-
tails are larger than in any prior year
in the history of the commerce of the
country, and with every grand divis-
ion of the world the trade is in excess
of that of any prior year.
Imports from Europe, which in 1906
exceeded those of any earlier year, will
in 1907 show an increase of more than
$50.000,000. Exports to Europe. which
were also larger in 1906 than in any
earlier year, will in 1907 show a gain
of from s3O,OOO,o0O to s4o,0Oo,OOo.
In the trade with North America i'm
ports therefrom thus far reported are
about $30,0O0.0O0 in excess of the cor
responding months of last year, and
exports thereto are approximately
SAC, 100000 in excess of the figures of
last year.
From South America the imports
show a gain Of about s16000,000 over
the high record year, 1906, and to
South America the exports are thus
far about s7.oO0,o0o greater than in
1906, which showed larger total than
any preceding year. -.
From Asia and Oceania combined
the imports thus far reported show a
gain Of $36.00O,0O0 over the high record
year, 1906, and the exports thereto, as
recorded up to this time, are $11,O00,-
900 greater than in 1906 but will prob
ably fall $3O,O00,00O below 1905. in
which year the exports to Asia were
large by reason of the I'M
usual demand resulting from condi-
lions at the close of the Japanese
Russian war.
From Africa imports are more than
double those of the corresponding
of last year, being for the ten
ending with October more than
$50 100000 in value. against little
less than s1O,oOO,OoO in 1906, while the
exports to Africa show decline Of
slightly less than s3,O0O,O00.
With practically all of the import
ant countries of the world the COM
merce of the year shows an improve
ment over last year. The figures for
the ten months ending with October
show an increase of s23,000,00O in i'm
ports from the United Kingdom and
$s,o0O.O0O in exports thereto, gain Of
100000, when compared with the
- Is
ately preceding year. In the trade with
Germany imports therefrom show an
increase Of s15,00O,OO0 and exports
thereto a gain of $1S,000,OoO; from
France, imports show an increase OF
$6,000,000, and exports thereto an in
crease of s6.O0O,O00.
From Canada imports show an in
crease of ss,COO,O0O and exports there
to an increase of $20,OOO,O00: from
Mexico. imports show an increase of
sS,000,000, and exports thereto an in
crease of $6,000,OOO. From Cuba i'm
ports are sS,OOO,OOO in excess of the
months of last yearaand
exports thereto $6,O00,00O greater than
in the same months Of last year. From
imports show a decline Of
about 100000 and the exports there
to also a decline of about $2,0O0,000.
From Brazil imports show an increase
of about $12,O00,000 and exports there
to an increase Of about $4,500,0O0.
Passing to the orient, the imports
from Japan show an increase of s12,-
100000 and the exports thereto a gain
of about 100000. From China the
imports show an increase of about $4.-
600, 900, and, while the exports to the
Chinese Empire show a decline of
about s6,OOO,00O, those to Japan ter
ritory in China show gain of $780,
900. indicating that the total exports
to the territory formerly included I'M
der the general title of "Chinese En-
pire" have not materially changed in
1907, compared with 1906. tho there is
a marked decline when compared with
1905, in which year the expectation of
copper and cotton cloths to China was